Community Development Manager, Strategic Partnerships Office (Telugu)

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 innovative expertise to deliver solutions for community development and engagement.

As a Community Development Manager, you will combine the community engagement and industry knowledge to support Google’s infrastructure growth. You will support Google Data Centers (GDC’s) community development goals by providing 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 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 the 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. You will also be responsible for further entrenching community development best practices within an organization experiencing growth, serving as a subject-matter-expert on data center delivery and strategic community engagement and development.

Responsibilities

• Lead global data center community development strategies, investments, and impact for Visakhapatnam, India.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, Google, and local Google Data Center teams.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience organizing community engagement events, with local municipalities, associations, key opinion formers, non-profit decision makers, education institutions, and community members.
• Experience with creating and implementing external communications plans, including crisis communication management, utilizing modern communication strategies.
• Experience with managing programs and processes across distributed systems and managing contractors, agencies, or other third parties.
• Ability to communicate in Telugu fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.
• Experience using analytics to make decisions.
• Ability to grow in a multinational environment working across multiple lines of business.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time as needed, across multi-market data center portfolio.