Community Development Manager, Google Data Centers - Singapore

Job description

The Community Development and Engagement team (CDE) drives business value by accelerating new technical infrastructure delivery and growth, protecting Google’s license to operate in markets around the world and leveraging community partnerships and innovative expertise to deliver solutions for community development and engagement.

As a Community Development Manager, you will combine the community engagement and industry knowledge to support Google’s infrastructure growth. You will support Google Data Centers (GDC’s) community development goals by providing insights and programmatic engagement that are based on community assessments for existing and prospective data center markets. You will partner with cross-functional teams to drive social impact, develop and maintain relationships with key opinion formers (KOFs)/stakeholders and government officials and engage with a portfolio of community leaders, associations, and nonprofit organizations in the region. 

You are responsible for managing the day-to-day execution of programmatic community development plans, working cross-functionally to drive global data center community impact with researching new in-market opportunities, and supporting accelerated delivery of new data center development projects. You will be responsible for further entrenching community development best practices within an organization experiencing growth, serving as a subject-matter-expert on data center delivery and strategic community engagement and development.

Qualifications

Job responsibilities

  • Lead global data center community development strategies, investments, and impact for the region, develop strategies to improve sub regional community affairs coverage in existing and emerging markets.
  • Engage with local community groups such as municipal leaders and community based non-profits to adopt Google’s community initiatives into their mission.
  • Produce location-specific community development plans with data collection, and turn that research data into insights to understand and prioritize community needs.
  • Develop communication tools and processes to educate local communities about the role and impact of the data centers, and create locally focused investment plans that address community needs and are self-sustaining.
  • Coordinate activities with a broad set of internal stakeholders, including regional delivery, energy, sustainability, cloud supply chain and operations, communications, marketing, operations, and local Google Data Center teams.

Minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in program or project management.
  • Experience organizing community engagement events, with local municipalities, associations, key opinion formers, non-profit decision makers, education institutions, and community members.
  • Experience with creating and implementing external communications plans, including crisis communication management, utilizing modern communication strategies.
  • Experience managing programs and processes across distributed systems.
  • Experience managing contractors, agencies, or other third parties.

Preferred qualifications

  • Master’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience developing and launching local, state, national or global public-private partnerships.
  • Experience in one or more of the following: data centers, utilities, government, advanced manufacturing.
  • Experience using analytics to make decisions.
  • Ability to grow in a multinational environment working across multiple lines of business.
  • Ability to travel 25% of the time as needed, across multi-market data center portfolio.
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