Key Responsibilities

Governance
•     To manage the complete governance of the 2% India Sustainability portfolio of over 74Mn USD
Summary of key functions:
•    Complete governance of the 2% portfolio
•    Review of each of the projects across the three themes ( SiB, WASHE and Futuremakers) to finalise from a financial and controls point of view.
•    Create MOU’s and liase with NGO partners to finalise.
•    Support in Portfolio Governance 
•    Regulatory and business conduct
•    Manage the EV portfolio for the Bank in India
•    Manage the Audit for the 2% portfolio – internal and external under guidance of the Head of Sustainability.
Project Assurance and Oversight 
•    Continuously review and manage the 2% governance portfolio
•    Carry out regular due diligence of the NGO documents to ensure they are updated, and regular communication is available and uploaded.
•    Secure and manage group approvals on projects onboarded.
•    Support the programme management team on assessing how the projects are doing and where we need to be cautious from a financial due diligence point of view.
•    Be a part of the Deloitte ( M&E) partner reviews and actively be a part of the programme management review.

•    Be an integral part of the 2% strategy team to plan the portfolio.
•    Communicate with NGO partners to ensure documentation is updated
•    Manage the payments and all approvals for the entire 2% portfolio – including suspense, and unspent accounts.
•    Prepare dossier to present to the CSR Committee twice a year.
Employee volunteering and communication
•    Develop internal communications to promote the banks employee volunteering agenda among employees.
•    Manage the social media and external communications of the employee volunteering portfolio with internal communications and social media team.
•    Create interesting opportunities for staff to meet the country employee volunteering target.
•    Be a part of the large employee volunteering events.
Governance and funding
•    Develop partner contracts under guidance of the portfolio managers and support in due diligence of the partners to ensure compliance with the Bank’s Donation Policy.  
•    To ensure necessary documentation for payments, utilisation and settlement of projects and regulatory reporting is done in a timely manner
•    Support in timely processing of payments to NGO partners and preparing portfolio payment packs as per disbursement timeline. 
•    Identify and assess sources of regulatory risks related to 2% portfolio.
•    Be updated of the changes in the 2% guidelines and ensure that the portfolio remains in sync to the changes.
•    Support in reporting of the overall 2% portfolio for the CSR Committee.

Programme Development Services
•    Onboard of new sustainability programme partners
•    Provide oversight to ensure that the activities being undertaken are in congruence with the project goal and the overall goal of the portfolio. 
•    Analyze impact assessment reports prepared by independent third-parties and review the alignment of outcomes in line with those anticipated at the time of engaging in the projects.
Regulatory & Business Conduct 
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters
Key stakeholders
•    CEO India
•    Global Head of Community Impact
•    Head CABM India & SA
•    Head of Sustainability India & GBS

Qualifications

•    Minimum 2-5 years’ experience in managing assessment of the donations governance portfolio.
•    High degree of proficiency in data analytics, reporting, planning & presentation tools.
•    Highly proficient in Microsoft tools such as Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
•    Ability to conduct research and analysis and deploy monitoring & evaluation frameworks.
•    Excellent attention to detail and ability to prioritise efficiently.
•    Excellent writing, communication, and project management skills.
•    Collaborative, self- motivated and ability to work both in a team as well as independently.
•    Flexible to travel to project sites to monitor progress of grant programs as a learning and role enhancement.

Skills and Experience

•    Knowledge of the development sector
•    Core themes – water sanitation, employability
•    Project Management skills

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.