Accenture - Strategic Program Manager - Corporate Citizenship

Job Description:

The Corporate Citizenship Strategic Programs Manager is responsible for end-to-end grants portfolio management of Accenture India's Community Investment program, working as part of the India Corporate Citizenship team.

The primary purpose of the Strategic Programs Manager role:

- Responsible for conducting due diligence, proposal development, review of budgets, preparing for board's approval and compliance documentation and reporting.

- Manage the monitoring and evaluation of national/local grants projects by establishing a regular cadence for reporting with all partners and encourage timely action by alerting leadership to key milestones, coordinating interventions and maintaining plans

- Collate and validate CC activity and metrics and maintain required reports and documentation for internal and external compliance

- Additional responsibilities will include supporting marketing communication activities and other CC team activities as required

- The role requires the applicant to operate with little direct supervision to engage effectively with key stakeholders both within Accenture India and externally with NGOs.

Program Development and Administration:

- Grant Making: End-to-end support for grant planning and due diligence

- Support account planning for national/ local nonprofits and activities for grant making

- Support the development of grants agreement letters / due diligence process and documentation

Grant Disbursal:

- Tracking disbursements, receipts and documentation

- Ensuring accuracy in disbursements and collating receipts and required documentation

- Liaise with controllership team, accounts and NGO partners program managers and finance team

- Grant program management: Responsible for managing NGO projects monitoring and evaluation process to ensure expected outcomes

- Maintain close liaison with non-profit program managers to ensure regular cadence of monitoring and evaluation of all programs

- Engage with 3rd party auditors and field evaluators as required

- Leverage Accenture assets -people/technology etc. to enhance deliverables

Performance Metrics:

- Implement a monitoring and evaluation checklist and matrix to evaluate the progress and impact of the CC program on a quarterly basis.

- Planning, forecasting, monitoring and reporting of CC programs and impact through liaising with the NGO partners

Knowledge Management:

- Ensure all required documentation for grant programs as per the governance process and checklist

- Maintain and regularly update the internal knowledge portal

Marketing & Communications:

- Support marketing activities for the grant projects and liaising with the CC Engagement & Communications Lead to implement the same

Employee Engagement:

- Identifying opportunities for volunteering and probono to the respective CC Leads to implement the same.

- Support wider business activities including probono and volunteering.

Education: Post graduate degree

Work Experience:

- Atleast 13 years of work experience

- Experience in working in the not-for-profit sector in a program management role is highly preferred

- Proven track record in managing external and internal relationships at senior levels

- Exposure to organizing and running an independent operation and/or program
- Working with little direct supervision

Work Requirements:

- Full-time role

- Largely office-based, but potentially some flexibility for working at home

- Travel will be required - with some flexibility on timing

- Some conference calling required outside standard working hours to accommodate the global nature of the CC networks

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

- Knowledge of wider Corporate Social Responsibility issues- Awareness of key issues in the voluntary