ERG Program Manager

Description

This is a hybrid role

The Role:

The ERG Program Manager is a critical part of the Corporate Citizenship Team. This team member will manage a portfolio of Employee Resource Groups and their initiatives to drive growth, success and business goals. Align and collaborate cross functionally to integrate ERG initiatives into the broader organizational strategies. ERG program managers will ensure our ERGs are viewed as key drivers of our effort and GM culture.

A successful candidate will have the ability to nurture / build productive relationships between ERG leaders, their networks, and Executive Champions. The ERG Program Manager will be accountable for measuring, reporting and shaping ERG initiatives within their portfolio and will look across the ERG landscape, to innovate, define new processes and drive adoption for best practices, by creating change management strategies tailored for their ERG portfolio, advocating for use of tools and processes with the full ERG portfolio to drive efficiencies and support for the intersectionality that we all experience. This role will be accountable for defining project plans, providing status updates, day-to-day oversight for their assigned ERGs including budget management, contract negotiations, when applicable, and general ERG support.

Responsibilities Include:

Lead ERGs in the development of their annual business plans and ensure strategic alignment to global strategy

Develop and implement governance for the ERGs to algin with company goals, values, and business impact

Create Cultural strategy with ERG, paired with a capacity plan and guide work across teams

Plan and forecast budget, including reporting back on actuals with their ERGs

Facilitate the development of ERG communications strategy, communications with leadership, and handle outside agency/consultants, as needed, to deliver on key initiatives for your ERG Portfolio

Track and measure the impact and effectiveness of ERG initiatives

Manage project plans within the portfolio, based on agile methodology.

Prioritize and execute process changes on key opportunities and streamline ERG practices and procedures

Partner across the enterprise to integrate ERG initiatives into business guidance/policy and practices

Must be able to demonstrate

Stakeholder Orientation: ability to prioritize the needs of stakeholders and foster custom relationships or experiences to ensure satisfaction with our products, services, or solutions

Problem Solving: Utilize resources and various inputs in decision making, deal with disputes in balanced ways, consistently look for process improvements, and practices high judgement, specifically related to problem solving

Workload Management : Manage multiple tasks or projects in a timely manner by prioritizing the most critical needs of the business without sacrificing work quality

Influencing : Has the ability to lead with influence, respectfully speaks up when sharing new ideas or concerns, can maneuver complex political situations, and encourages collaborative communication to drive compromise

Evaluate & Measure Impact : Ability to use data to drive meaningful initiatives with global impact. Demonstrate high judgement with the capability to assess current state (environment, emotional, social, political, etc.) and determine the right course of action

Other:

Project and Program Management

Relationship Building

Results Focused

Conflict Management

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree with emphasis on organizational development, Human Resources, Business Administration, or related filed

5+ years of professional experience

Extensive ERG experience including implementing and sustaining ERG strategy

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

MS Office Suite proficient

Strong project management and change management organizational skills

Ability to prioritize workload and communicate expectations to stakeholders

Strong written, oral, and executive presentation and interpersonal skills

Passionate, proactive, solution orientated, and approaches new initiatives with a growth mindset

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)

This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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