Bank Of America Assistant Vice President AVP /Vice 

China, Hong Kong 

617130927

Position Description:

While the Bank’s multiple award-winning international social and environmental platform is steady state, the AVP/VP, Philanthropy will be required to continuously reassess regional philanthropy strategy to ensure we remain current within the dynamic developmental space. This will require the potential candidate to bring both tactical and strategic innovation to our philanthropic portfolio in terms of enhancing partnerships, looking at innovative capital deployment structures, and opportunities to collaborate with teams across the company, as well as helping to deepen impact measurement process.

Key Responsibilities:

• Grant Management

  • Dynamically manage the Bank’s community investment program in APAC ex-India with a focus on strengthening relationships with existing NGOs and widening partnerships, especially aimed at leveraging blended finance models going beyond traditional philanthropy

  • Work closely with local market philanthropy committees providing support/guardrails in terms of alignment with strategy, grant selection, monitoring grant progress etc.

  • Directly manage 5-6 regional grants with funds deployed across multiple APAC markets, continuously innovating to include calibrated partnerships cutting across multiple focus areas

  • Manage governance frameworks, monitoring and evaluation of grant portfolio with a strong focus on impact measurement

  • Work closely with other International philanthropy team members to continue to build on our strong international platform

• Employee Engagement & Volunteering

  • Manage employee engagement & volunteerism program for 12 markets

  • Manage regional/international employee engagement campaigns while innovating to introduce key signature regional campaigns

• Arts Programme

  • Support expansion of Arts & Culture programme across APAC working with other International Arts Leads, as relevant

  • Support outreach for the Art Conservation Project (ACP) and expansion of Art of Connecting initiative

• Support the marketing and communications of the Bank’s CSR activities internally and externally.

Key Requirements:

• 5-10 years’ experience working in strategic philanthropy, grant-making and volunteer programme management at multinational company, preferably in the financial services industry

• Understanding of development issues and evolving landscape recognizing the crucial role of strategic philanthropy in supporting sustainable solutions.

• Educational qualification such as Masters in development studies/development economics/development finance/public policy/environment/international relations or development/social work or equivalent preferable

• Excellent written and spoken language skills, with proficiency in English.

• Strong communication and presentation skills

Desired Skills

• An ability to thrive as a team player within a diverse and inclusive culture with high energy, high expectations, and a complex matrix structure

• Project management skills (from idea conception to closure)

• Strong attention to detail.

• Innovative and creative mindset, fostering a culture of forward thinking.

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Motivation and passion to make a difference.

• Professionalism, sound judgment and good instincts