Community Investment Grants Associate (Cupertino, CA)

Our Customer is an American computer and consumer electronics company famous for creating phones and computers. As one of the largest companies globally with a market cap of over 2 trillion dollars, it is a major leader in the space. Although this company was founded in 1976 it has transformed how we connect and communicate worldwide.

Our Customer is seeking a Community Investment Grants Associate on a contract basis to help support our Customer's business needs. This role is onsite in Cupertino, CA.

As the Community Investment Grants Associate within the Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives organization, you will work with a globally dispersed cross-functional team to lead a variety of grants.

This position ensures a smooth workflow, organizes, actively manages schedules and trackers and routinely communicates with a wide array of individuals while supporting the work of mission and vision.

Strong organizational skills, ability to maintain confidentiality, forward-thinking business insight and strong written and spoken skills are essential to the success of this role. This role has significant administrative needs within a fast paced environment with many deliverables running in parallel.


Responsibilities:

• A primary function of this role will consist of trafficking and managing Corporate Grants to qualified organizations
• Liaison between cross-functional teams to make sure all processes are followed for grant programs
• Support, organize and scope the next phases of Community Investment grant programs
• Manage relationships with corporate donation recipients and source new potential community partners—seeking new opportunities for introducing partners to the employees to both inspire them and promote taking action
• Manage and assist with program administration, raw data importing of legacy information, financial processing, and additional needs.
• Oversee and manage program inboxes, ensuring timely and efficient handling of incoming inquiries and requests from internal and external stakeholders.
• Collect and evaluate impact reports from program stakeholders to provide insights for continuous program improvement and strategic decision-making.
• Other tasks as identified

Skills and Qualifications:

• College degree preferred
• 5+ years of experience in high-tech project management
• Experience working in Social Impact, CSR, and non-profit engagement with an emphasis on grant management
• Proven ability of leading multiple grants combined with the ability to execute tactical activities and tasks
• Successful track record of Community Engagement at a strategic level within an organization of comparable scope, size, and complexity.
• Ability to plan, communicate, handle, and organize multiple projects with competing priorities and different timescales
• Strong organizational and documentation skills with a high level of attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and self managing
• Flexible, resourceful, and detail-oriented
• Comfortable with ambiguity and ability to bring structure and clarity where none exists
• Experience, comfort and success working with senior leadership
• Familiarity with Mac OS X and iOS a must
• Strong proficiency in Keynote, Numbers, and Pages