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Manager - Community Partnerships & Engagement

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You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

The Manager, Community Partnerships and Engagement role will sit on the American Express Corporate Sustainability team, within Corporate Affairs & Communications. This role will be focused on the success of the American Express colleague engagement programs; inclusive of donations and volunteering. The role will be a part of an international colleague engagement and community impact team, with the focus being driving the New York based colleague community initiatives and managing key non-profit partnerships that work across the United States. This role will develop, launch, and manage ongoing community-based programs within the United States, supporting the strategic priorities of the Global Community Impact team.

How will you make an impact on this role?

  • Be the New York colleague engagement champion, overseeing and coordinating New York volunteer efforts for the thousands of colleagues based in the Manhattan office such as Central Park Conservancy, God’s Love We deliver, and New York Cares.
  • Manage partnership and relationships with US-based nonprofits focused on youth mentoring, financial literacy, and career readiness.
  • Support the efforts of colleague networks and business unit teams to set up volunteering events on American Express’s internal volunteering and donating site “Give2Gether” powered by Benveity.
  • Collaborate across multiple teams to ensure successful execution of CS initiatives, inclusive of Communications, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Colleague Engagement Group, and Compliance.
  • Support and execute the creation of non-profit grants and payments
  • Support the efforts of the annual giving season campaign efforts and ad-hoc programmatic needs.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 4-6 years of experience in either colleague engagement, non-profit work or event planning
  • Strong organizational and project management skills
  • Excellent communications and interpersonal skills, being able to work with colleagues across all seniority levels
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, bonus if familiar with Benevity
  • Familiarity with grants, non-profits and corporate sustainability KPIs
  • A passion for philanthropic work and volunteering
  • Ability to work independently, collaboratively, and cross functionally in a detail oriented environment
  • Ability to travel locally throughout the tri-state area

Salary Range: $80,000.00 to $155,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

  • Competitive base salaries
  • Bonus incentives
  • 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
  • Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
  • Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
  • 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
  • Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
  • Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
  • Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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