JOB SUMMARY
We’re seeking a forward-thinking and connected individual to join our Data & AI team in a newly created role focused on AI Advocacy & Alliances. This role is central to strengthening our institutional voice in AI, forging influential partnerships, and embedding AI more visibly into our internal and external narratives
Reporting into the AI leadership team/Global Head of AI Enablement and working closely with stakeholders across the bank’s WRB, CIB, CABM, Strategy and innovation teams, this role will serve as a bridge between our AI ambition and the ecosystems that shape its future — including think tanks, academic bodies, industry alliances, and public forums.

AI will shape the future of financial services, but voice, visibility, and credibility will define the leaders. This role is at the heart of ensuring our bank not only participates in the AI conversation — but helps shape it.

•    Lead and execute the global communications strategy for AI across the Bank.
•    Shape and tell the story of our AI ambition in collaboration with senior business leaders, businesses and function partners.
•    Develop compelling internal and external narratives that bring our AI vision to life and align with our broader corporate narrative.
•    Identify high-impact speaking opportunities, awards, forums and publications that can elevate the visibility of our AI leadership.
•    Track and measure impact of communication activities and refine strategies based on data and feedback.
•    Stay current on AI trends, risks and regulatory developments to ensure relevance and responsiveness in communications.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy
Partner closely with the Corporate Affairs and Marketing teams to ensure consistent messaging across channels, platforms and markets.

Business
Build and maintain strong relationships with external partners, including industry groups, academic institutions, think tanks and strategic alliances to enhance the bank’s voice and credibility in the global AI ecosystem

Processes
Support internal education and engagement efforts to drive AI fluency across teams, including working with HR, training leads, and internal comms.
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.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles NA  

Key Stakeholders

Business Analysts, Business Partners, COO Business, ITO, CDO, internal staff, clients and 3rd parties.

Our Ideal Candidate 

• 8+ year of experience in technology and AI-related storytelling.
• Lead and execute the global communications strategy for AI across the Bank.
• Shape and tell the story of our AI ambition in collaboration with senior business leaders, businesses and function partners.
• Develop compelling internal and external narratives that bring our AI vision to life and align with our broader corporate narrative.
• Identify high-impact speaking opportunities, awards, forums and publications that can elevate the visibility of our AI leadership.
• Track and measure impact of communication activities and refine strategies based on data and feedback.
• Stay current on AI trends, risks and regulatory developments to ensure relevance and responsiveness in communications.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Strong writing and narrative development skills across different formats and audiences.
• Proven track record in working cross-functionally across global teams and senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing external partnerships, preferably in the AI, tech or innovation space.
• Confident navigating complexity and ambiguity in a fast-evolving topic like AI.
• A self-starter who brings creativity, initiative, and sound judgment.

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.

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