EY Ripples Global Corporate Responsibility Senior Associate
EY · Johannesburg
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The opportunity
EY is on a journey to transform its positive impact by becoming an accelerator of sustainable, inclusive growth, advancing innovation and practices that enable as many people as possible to contribute to, and share in the benefits of, economic growth. This includes significantly increasing our social impact, operating responsibly across all aspects of our business, and combatting climate change.
EY Ripples is our global corporate responsibility program that mobilizes EY people to participate in skilled volunteering. The Global Corporate Responsibility (GCR) team takes a consistent, global approach to engage and inspire thousands of our people to give their time to work with beneficiaries, applying and developing their professional knowledge, skills and experience.
Consistency is achieved by focusing on four strategic areas:
- AI for Good: We harness AI's transformative power to accelerate positive social and environmental impact through AI-led collaboration and innovation. We focus on AI for Entrepreneurship, AI for Education and AI for the Environment, while building trust in AI across all generations.
- Skilling & Future Workforce – We empower individuals, communities, entrepreneurs and nonprofits with the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in an AI-powered economy. We mentor the next generation workforce including young people and underserved groups to develop the mind-set and transferable skills they need most to find and sustain meaningful work in a transformative age, better equipping them to adapt and thrive in whatever the future of work holds
- Sustainability: We leverage the transformative power of environmental initiatives, entrepreneurship and technology to combat climate change, protect biodiversity and foster sustainable practices for a healthier planet.
- Access & Inclusion: We support individuals, entrepreneurs and nonprofits to foster a world where opportunity grows because everyone belongs. Through new skills, experiences and knowledge, we're shaping a future that is open to all.
Skill-based (and unskilled) volunteering opportunities that are available to our people center on these strategic focus areas, ranging from virtual mentoring or preparing learning materials, through to full day facilitation, building relationships and taking part in immersive projects for up to sixteen weeks.
This full-time role reports to the Associate Director, Supporting the Next Gen Lead and supports the Sustainability, Skilling & Future Workforce and Tech Alliance social impact teams. The role focuses on boosting productivity and enabling deeper collaboration across key priority programs and partners.
Examples of Work may Include:
- Content Hub updates – refreshing program materials (e.g., embedding the new Global Environmental Strategy, updating statistics/links, and updating materials for new and refreshed programs); optimizing the organization of files/focus areas; and updating toolkits for employee and client activation
- SCORE – submitting new materials for approval and updating them based on feedback
- Sustainability Skills Labs – managing logistics and scheduling; recruiting organizations and facilitators and onboarding them through to launch of the events; sending reminders and materials before and after; data, reporting and submission, including maintaining a database of interested facilitators and attendees; and helping organize “train the trainers” sessions
- Skills Passports – supporting the refresh of content and roll-out across all Skills Passport programs, and creating activation materials to support in-person workshops
- Alignment, Measurement & Reporting – applying knowledge of alignment criteria and managing the review/approval process; and running reports and submitting asks for M&R validations to support focus-area targets and objectives
- Strategic Project Support:
- Global Connect Day – researching data-capturing tools; and helping with slide updates and project-management tools
- Support for Thought leadership and other Brand Marketing Communications-related tasks – video and content editing; researching statistics and other qualitative insights; and creating internal and external comms templates for communicating program updates
- Alliance Opportunities – researching potential projects with Alliances (e.g., Nvidia and natural-disaster modeling); and supporting meeting agendas and slides, prep and follow-through
Knowledge, Competency and Skill Requirements:
- Strong project management skills with the ability to drive new projects from conception to implementation
- Strong time management with the ability to manage multiple projects at the same time
- Experienced Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel skills, ability to dissect complex information and present in clear and concise manner within quick timeframe
- Demonstrate a passion and understanding of the corporate responsibility agenda and trends
- Delivery focused self-starter with a proven ability to operationalize high quality portfolios of work, mitigate risk and manage multidimensional dependencies
- Innovative thinker with a strong interest in developing new ideas, a focus on user-centric design and credibly championing new ways of working with stakeholders
- Ability to influence and build collaborative relationships with stakeholders across the firm/globe
- Ability to navigate complexity and successfully coordinate multiple initiatives in an evolving, high pressure environment
- Ability to flex personal style and work across geographies and cultures
- Strong team player who is comfortable working collaboratively, virtually, and independently
To qualify for this role you must have:
- Extensive experience producing high quality deliverables in a fast-paced, continuously evolving environment
- Experience problem solving and designing user-centric solutions
- Experience engaging, influencing and building collaborative relationships with stakeholders
Preferred:
- Skills-based volunteering experience
- AI fluency
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