Corporate Social Responsibility Lead

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking a Corporate Social Responsibility Lead in Edison, NJ, to oversee employee volunteerism and community engagement initiatives in the USA and Canada. The role involves coordinating volunteer events, managing the CSR Champions Network, and supporting CSR programs. The position requires up to 20% travel within the United States and focuses on enhancing TCS's impact through community outreach and philanthropic efforts.
ABOUT TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 56 years. Its consulting-led, cognitive powered, portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has over 612,700 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 55 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $29 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, and is listed on the BSE and the NSE in India. TCS' proactive stance on climate change and award-winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit www.tcs.com

TCS has been recognized as one of the 50 most community-minded companies in the United States and named an honoree of ‘The Civic 50’, a prestigious annual list by the non-profit organization Points of Light. The 2024 list marks TCS’ eighth consecutive year of recognition and sixth time as the Information Technology Sector Leader.

JOB DESCRIPTION

TCS, one of the world’s top four IT services and consulting firms, is hiring a Community Engagement Lead for its Corporate Social Responsibility function in North America.

TCS engagement model draws upon its thought leadership, technology capabilities, skill-based volunteering of employees, and philanthropic investments to enable its CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) programs, partnerships, and initiatives. This individual will lead the day-to-day operations of demonstrating volunteer program effectiveness and impact, both externally and internally, and equipping TCS leaders and key stakeholders with information/messaging to further amplify the scale of such initiatives.

The CSR Lead, Employee Volunteerism and Community Engagement will support the planning and execution of Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives in the USA and Canada. This position will primarily focus on supporting the employee volunteer program, community outreach and philanthropic initiatives of TCS in the United States.

This position will involve up to 20% travel within the United States.

Employee Volunteer Program:
• Organize and coordinate volunteer events, logistics and event details
• Recruit, steward and manage CSR Champions Network nationally
• Conduct in-person road shows and webinars with employees across the country
• Connect CSR Champions Network and employees to CSR opportunities with our national nonprofit partners through initiatives in focus areas of health, education, and environment
• Support associates through TCS’s internal CSR/civic leadership training program by managing virtual modules and small group cohorts
• Upload volunteer events, manage all requests and questions related to volunteering, maintain metrics reports related to volunteer impact
• Collaborate closely with CSR program teams to recruit volunteers for STEM education activities
• Regularly innovate opportunities to reach employees across the U.S. to raise a wareness, inspire engagement with TCS’s volunteer programs or in their own communities throughout the year
• Help administer employee recognition programs
• Help administer TCS’ volunteer tracking tool “myPurpose”
• Coordinate payments to our nonprofit partners, vendors, and suppliers

Communications:
• Create CSR content on volunteer events for both internal and external stakeholders
• Integrate marketing and communication efforts within all stakeholders while reinforcing brand standards
• Develop content, tools, assets, and collateral to support outreach and employee engagement (e.g., presentations, one-pagers, reports, infographics)
• Compile quarterly CSR newsletters
• Draft event recaps to highlight volunteer events and social media reach
• Support the applications and submissions for CSR awards
• Create CSR content on volunteer events for both internal and external stakeholders
• Integrate marketing and communication efforts within all engagement efforts while upholding brand standards.

Community Engagement:
• Outreach to nonprofit partners to develop and manage mutually beneficial business-community partnerships
• Coordinate the appropriate project logistics including pre-project development, planning, project supplies, etc. and provide onsite leadership at select volunteer events
• Coordinate volunteer recruitment and registration, with support from the CSR Champions Network
• Outreach to nonprofit agency partners to develop mutually beneficial business-community partnerships
• Support corporate philanthropy efforts by working with internal stakeholders and nonprofits to execute the donations process
• Support the company’s philanthropic strategy by tracking and reviewing contributions requests
• Represent TCS in external forums, events, and conferences
• Lead special projects relating to CSR, Diversity & Employee Engagement.

Qualifications:
• Understanding of CSR and Human Resources principles and practices
• Self-directed individual with initiative, creativity, analytical and organizational management skills
• Superb communications including writing, editing and presentation skills
• Ability to lead and manage volunteers and volunteer groups
• Ability to collaborate with other departments, agencies, and peers to reach common goals
• Strong planning and organizational skills with close attention to detail
• Working knowledge of popular social networks
• Strong volunteer management and communication experience
• Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced and changing work environment.

Desired Skills and Experience
• Bachelor's degree and minimum of 5-7 years related work experience in volunteer management, communications, cross-functional and cross-disciplinary project management and business experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with nonprofits and volunteer programs
• Experience actively building and maintaining strong relationships with business professionals and organizations
• Experience actively building and maintaining strong relationships with business professionals and organizations
• Pr oficient computer skills in Microsoft Office Products, database experience a plus, volunteer software experience preferred but not required.

Ideal candidates for this role also have:
• Strong internal network of relationships with thought leaders in your space, and the capacity to effectively enlist and engage leading thinkers and doers to support our work.
• The ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment, provide leadership and direction to the team when there are curve balls, and to lead with inspiration, resilience, and resolve.
• High capacity to collaborate across matrixed, global teams.
• Experience scoping, structuring, coordinating, and delivering strategy projects.
• Widely experienced in setting up new support organizations, shared services, and managed services across various locations throughout North America.
• Demonstrates strong competence to collaborate with senior management for providing strategic inputs and IT vision while implementing new technologies and streamlining existing operations.
• Specialized in shared support modeling and establishment, selective outsourcing partnership, managed services support model and multi-location service delivery.

Salary Range: $88,100-$123,700 a year

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Location

Edison, NJ

Job Function

HUMAN RESOURCES

Role

Lead

Job Id

342646

Desired Skills

Corporate Social Responsibility