- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program or project management.
- Experience working with local municipalities, associations, key opinion formers, non-profit decision makers, education institutions, and community members.
- Ability to travel 25% of the time as required.
- MBA or Master’s degree in Education, Public Relations/Policy or a related field or equivalent experience.
- Experience using analytics to make decisions.
- Experience in one or more of the following: Data Centers, Utilities, Government, Advanced Manufacturing.
- Experience developing and launching local, state, national or global public-private partnerships
- Ability to grow in a fluid multinational environment working across multiple lines of business.
- Ability to communicate in German fluently in order to interact with local stakeholders.
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 expertise to deliver solutions for community development and engagement.
As a Community Development Manager based in Austria, you will combine your community engagement and industry knowledge to support Google’s infrastructure growth. You will support SPO's community development and workforce innovation goals by providing data-driven 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 measurable 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 your region. You will be responsible for managing the day-to-day execution of programmatic community development plans, working cross functionally to drive data center community impact with researching new in-market opportunities, and supporting accelerated delivery of new data center development projects aligned with management goals. You will be responsible for further entrenching community development best practices within an organization experiencing rapid growth, serving as a subject matter expert on data center delivery and community engagement and workforce development.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Austria: €142000 - €145000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
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- Lead global data center community development strategies, investments, and impact.
- Engage with key opinion formers, community groups and non-profits to ensure initiatives are centered around community needs and accelerating objectives.
- Collaborate to develop strategies to scale sub regional Community Affairs coverage in emerging markets, focusing on place-based frameworks and partnerships to produce location-specific plans based on research data turned into actionable insights to prioritize community needs.
- Develop communication tools and processes to educate local communities about the role and impact of our data centers, and create locally focused investment plans that are self-sustaining.
- Build and maintain key internal relationships with a broad set of internal stakeholders, including Acquisition and Development, Energy, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Cloud Supply Chain and Operations, Marketing, and local Google data center teams.
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