Community Development Manager, Google Data Centers

Google • Fort Wayne, IN

7h • $147,000 - $216,000

About The Position

As a Community Development Manager, you will combine your community engagement and industry knowledge to support Google’s infrastructure growth. You will support Google Data Centers (GDC’s) community development 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 non-profit 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 global 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 development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 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.
• Experience building place-based development strategies, and executing against those plans with measurable local impacts and business outcomes.
• Experience synthesizing data and research findings into recommendations.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time as required.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or Master’s degree in Education, Public Relations/Policy or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• 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 or capital intensive industries.
• Experience using analytics to make decisions.

Responsibilities

• Engage with key opinion formers, community groups such as municipal leaders, industry partners, economic development organizations, schools, education institutions, and non-profits to ensure initiatives are centered around community needs and accelerating business objectives.
• Collaborate with team leaders and peers to develop strategies to scale sub regional Community Affairs coverage in emerging markets, focusing on place-based frameworks and partnerships to produce location-specific development 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.
• Localize and implement community development initiatives in each community.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, including acquisition and development, energy, government affairs and public policy, cloud supply chain and operations, marketing, Google.org.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level