Director, Community & Belonging at Mastercard · London

Director, Community & Belonging

Location: London, England (Angel Lane)

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Director, Community & Belonging

About the Role:
The Community & Belonging Business Partner will be a direct report to the Vice President, Community & Belonging Business Partner. This role is responsible for supporting the implementation of the company’s Corporate/ Regional Community & Belonging Strategies.

Primary Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with functional leaders and Human Resources to embed and drive progress for our multi-year Belonging action plans, including developing, monitoring and reporting on indicators of success and challenges

• Work to increase the inclusion leadership competency of leaders, managers and employees through the implementation of programs and trainings that educate staff on how to recognise and value individual differences and enrich our work in the process

• Work with various departments and staff, including Human Resources and Communications to create, update, and assure that our organisational communications and campaigns, processes and policies fully reflect the organizations guiding inclusion strategy principles and areas of focus

• Develop strategic partnerships with outside organizations and professionals to support the recruiting efforts in developing a pipeline of diverse candidates, vendors, and partners

• Support Community & Belonging internal and external efforts and campaigns, and reporting, benchmarking and awards/recognition initiatives

• Work with the Employee Resource Groups to support meeting Belonging strategy objectives

General Management Accountabilities:
• Be a business partner and consultant
• Able to motivate and inspire
• Have an inclusive and global mind set
• Willing to take calculated risks
• Ensure inclusion leadership needs are identified and addressed
• Promote, support and sustain an ethical working environment
• Comfortable working in a start-up environment where you may work on projects outside the scope of your day job

Skills/Experiences
• Experience in helping build and implement regional inclusion strategies, including experience working with and creating collaborative and productive working relationships among multicultural populations and across multiple levels of the company

• Demonstrated skills in influencing and leading groups, problem solving, organizational and interpersonal skills

• Strong communications skills, including program management, making effective presentations, and writing

• Ability to manage, monitor, and disseminate progress of program goals and challenges

• Excellent coaching, mentoring and facilitating skills

• Knowledge of how to embed Community & Belonging thinking into HR diverse recruitment strategies, talent development/management practices and engagement/retention

• Change agent to foster a more inclusive work environment

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously

• Willing to travel 20-25%

Education:
• BA or similar education preferred

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.