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Community Relations Representative - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for AMD India Pvt. Ltd. sites located in Bengaluru & Hyderabad. This is a mid-level role and will be responsible for regional AMD CSR representation and execution of key programs and initiatives to continue advancing AMD's performance and recognition as a socially responsible and sustainable company.
AMD India Pvt. Ltd. CSR programs consists of four key focus areas: * STEM Education: This is a highly impactful set of initiatives which have been put forth in dovetailing with programs that are conducted globally to leverage best practices in advancing STEM Education in India and building scientific temper while aligning with goals for education.

• Workforce of the Future: This initiative focusses on skilling the underprivileged and those who may not have access to formal learning methods to provide livelihood and means of sustaining themselves independently.
• Scientific Research: AMDs key growth driver has been the cutting-edge Research & Development and we believe that scientific research as a social initiative plays a major role in inventions and discoveries. Building this "curiosity" led approach to bring scientific research being done in India through incubators and accelerators as partners is a key initiative.
• Enabling the Girl Child: One of the most diverse companies in the high-tech space, AMD has led the diversity and inclusion dialogue in the semiconductor industry. AMDs many initiatives today are focussed on building talent for the girl child across the spectrum and bringing those without access to technology or learning into the foray for learning.

Further AMD's CR spans across: * ESG/Sustainability - specific STEM initiative for social impact 'Sustainability Accelerator'; Materiality assessments for all areas related to global ESG report.

• Volunteerism and Employee Engagement programs supporting these initiatives.
• CSR/ESG Communications both external and internal

The community relations representative drives local implementation of polices and strategies for these four major areas to meet and exceed stakeholder expectations. The role manages corporate social responsibility landscape and evolving the social responsibility strategy and framework and operating internal governance and coordination bodies in the site.
The site community relations representative will also help represent the company in external corporate social responsibility and sustainability organizations, initiatives, collaborations and events. As CSR in India is also mandated by laws and regulation, a strong understanding and networking within the government departments and framework is expected from the candidate. This position reports to the Director of Public Affairs and requires mobility across AMDs sites.
Specific responsibilities include:

• Understand, communicate and strategize for trends and developments about STEM applied to corporate social responsibility and academia among key stakeholders
• Local implementation and execution of STEM Education and Workforce Development strategy, related to University Programs
• Foster AMDs Sustainability and ESG initiatives mainly in India, driving new models, innovation and adoption.
• Lead the materiality assessments and data collection related to annual ESG Reporting as requested by CSR CHQ
• Lead execution of Volunteerism and Employee Engagement programs at Site level
• Work closely with site leads and be able to cohesively arrive at a common minimum program. This involves working with senior leaders within the company.
• Prioritize and engage strategically with external stakeholders, including state government, alliances, coalitions, initiatives, partners and events.
• Serve as resource for internal partners for formal ESG reporting and broader communications needs and opportunities.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with internal partners / functions that contribute to responsibility and sustainability to drive toward coalitions, consensus and action.
• Manage agency resources (as available) to support programs and initiatives.
• Expand and manage measurement activities focused on responsibility and sustainability.
• Local execution of global Communications strategy both internal and external, supporting and enabling stories of impact, working closely with partners and our internal teams to support communications of efforts.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise:
Extensive professional experience in similar roles and experience implementing similar programs in a corporate environment is strongly preferred.

• Experience managing and advancing broad-based corporate education and workforce development programs in STEM.
• Experience managing and advancing broad-based environmental sustainability STEM programs and initiatives.
• Multi-national corporate experience managing multiple markets in this region is required.
• A passion for innovation and CSR; societal impact leveraged by Cognitive and Cloud digital transformation around talent acquisition, jobs and careers; an opportunity for CSR to effectively reduce gaps and potentialize untapped talent.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise:

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically.
• Breakthrough Thinking - STEM Business Acumen applied to Social Responsibility and Academia Programs.
• Think global act local -proven capacity to drive local execution of global strategies and models.
• Ability to work within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to drive rigorous, fact-based recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or geographic management.
• Understanding of India's CSR regulatory landscape for frameworks and standards, ratings agencies, evolving legislation and trends affecting technology companies.
• Involvement in developing and managing social responsibility and sustainability strategies, including the materiality assessment process.
• Exceptional ability to develop positive relationships and lead through influence with internal partners, build consensus and prioritize action and results.
• Outstanding communicator with excellent presentation and strong written and oral communications skills.
• Professional presence to be a trusted representative of the company with external stakeholders.
• Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic and flexible.
• Should be a self-starter and be able to work unsupervised.

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