Corporate Responsibility Manager

Job Description

At M&G our purpose is to help people manage and grow their savings and investments, responsibly. As a business, we are continuing to take steps towards a sustainable future, delivering better long-term solutions for our customers and clientsand identifying new opportunities to make a positive impact for our environment and communities . To help us achieve our vision were looking for exceptional people who live our values of care and integrity and who can inspire others; embrace change; deliverresults and keep it simple. We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role. Corporate Responsibility Manager - Fixed Term ContractReporting to the Group Head of Corporate Responsibility, youll demonstrate the business value of Corporate Responsibility (CR) - balancing your passion for the issues with a thorough understanding of the commercial implications. Drawing on your diplomatic skills, youll interact with internal departments and partner organisations to secure their commitment to our charitable CR programmes. Responsibilities :Volunteering and fundraising:

• Planning, recruiting, training, implementing and evaluating volunteering activity including team challenges and fundraising initiatives
• Capturing all relevant volunteering data for reporting purposes
• Managing and responding to all volunteering requests
• Overseeing all volunteering activity

Community investment:

• Support in development of CR policy and strategy
• Keeping a record of activities for benchmarking purposes
• Working with colleagues in the planning and delivery of various local events
• Managing the digital M&G in the Community Fund including applications, quarterly virtual meetings and charitable donations payments
• Responding to charitable queries and requests for grant funding

Reporting:

• Data collection - helping to keep up to date records on charity and community numbers
• Record/track volunteer activity on central database

Communications:

• Co-ordination of communications across the business of flagship and volunteering programmes, team challenges and regional events
• Organising photography and videography of current programmes and team challenges to use in promotional materials and on the intranet
• Updating community intranet pages and external website content
• Managing inbox and rejection letters/communications
• Creating reports to illustrate community activity across M&G Prudential
• Gathering and drafting content for social media, external and internal communications

Skills and Knowledge, essential:

• Understanding of Corporate Responsibility (CR) and Sustainable Development (SD) issues with a commercial perspective
• Capable of developing further understanding of business specific CR and SD issues
• Project management experience
• Strong communication focus
• Excellent written skills

Skills and Knowledge, desirable:

• Experience of working with a business CR team

Skills and Knowledge, attributes:

• Team player
• Good communication skills, written and oral
• Excellent IT skills: Excel, PowerPoint, Word
• Self-starter
• Good at multi-tasking
• Strategic thinker
• Good influencing skills
• Good facilitation and organisational skills
• Project management experience
• Credible with internal and external stakeholders
• Has development potential
• Enthusiastic

Recruiter : Martyn Jack Location : London We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity,age, sexual orientation, nationality or disability we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.