ESG Community Impact Lead

Senior ESG Community Impact Analyst

Your role:
The Sr. ESG Community Impact Analyst will be responsible for supporting the goals of Ardent Mills' Environmental Social Governance (ESG) program and will be responsible for the administration and planning of Community Impact Programs. This role will be responsible for supporting the management all Non-Profit Partnerships and select University Partnerships. The primary goal for this role will be to ensure these partnerships help Ardent Mills achieve its Access to Nutrition and Growing a Better Future programmatic goals, grow awareness of Ardent Mills with the next generation of talent and connecting our teammates with engagement and service opportunities with these partners. This role will work closely with the Director of Diversity Equity and Inclusion to ensure giving supports diverse set of stakeholders and will report directly to the SR Manager of ESG.

About ESG at Ardent Mills
In ESG we seek to Nourish What's Next by making positive impact on all aspects of the communities we operate in not only economically, but socially and environmentally. We do this through focusing on a Communities, People, Planet, and our Ingredients. We serve a diverse set of stakeholders both internally in terms of our teammates but also our farmers, community members, and our customers as we find ways to help them meet their own ESG goals.
To succeed, you must be able to:
* Deliver results in first-time situations by inspiring others and working to earn trust every day.
* Serve others with understanding, respect, and care.
* Operate with simplicity, clarity and transparency.
* Deal with and drive change.
* Organize, prioritize and own multiple tasks while meeting or exceeding deadlines.
* Learn and apply new technology, and share your knowledge with others.
Above all you will be expected to carry out all your activities with reliability, integrity, compliance and in a safe, environmentally responsible, and efficient manner.

Your responsibilities:
Key Metrics:
* Volunteer Hours
* Teammates Volunteering
* Product Donation
* Economic Development
* Meals Donated
* Students Engaged in Education
* Percent Budget Utilized Yearly
* ESG Community Impact Goals

**National Partner Management**

- Coordinate minimum Quarterly status calls with all national partners to ensure:
- Adherence to goals
- Identify opportunities for teammate engagement
- Establish local service opportunities
- Plan for National Events
- Provide support to HR teams for national event presence to bolster talent pipeline development, create engaging opportunities for teammates, and deliver outstanding representation of AM's brand
- Manage grant allocation for each partner, ensuring proper use of funds to meet goals
- Develop regular service opportunities locally in Denver and nationally for all teammates to participate in at minimum quarterly

**Facility Support**

- Develop processes and tools to facilitate and track facility giving and identify the impact of grants
- Host quarterly status calls with facility charitable giving leaders to drive simplicity in the process
- Coordinate local service opportunities with national partners and other partners' facilities if needed
- Serve as the main point of contact and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for our giving platform, ensuring facility members know how to use the tool and can easily submit requests
- Work with finance to ensure grants are fulfilled in a timely fashion and within compliance

**Special Projects**

- Lead our annual Month of Service ensuring network-wide facility engagement, tracking and communication of local and company-wide results, and facilitate the report-out meeting in coordination with the SLT and Communications
- Lead planning and execution of Annual Supplier Charity event
- Guide decision making on evolution of the Community Impact program as it relates to:
- Employee match programs
- Miscellaneous grant awards process inter-year
- Disaster Relief, personal hardship support and response to social injustice events as it relates to community investment
- DEI Action Team
- Ensure Community Impact grants support DEI program goals where possible
- Provide support to Employee Resource Groups in grant awards and coordinating service opportunities
- Serve as the voice of ESG to ensure programs stay aligned towards shared goals

**Budget Management**

- Manage allocation of all Community Impact Funds ensuring on-time delivery with finance, proper tax deduction capture, etc.
- Provide yearly recommendation on allocation to national partners, portion of budget allocated to facility budgets, miscellaneous dollars for inter-year grants and make business case for any increases in overall budget
- Tie all dollars to specific expected outcomes in line with ESG Community Impact Goals

Essential skills and experience:

* Bachelor's Degree and 6 years' experience working in Non-Profit Management, Community Engagement, or for a Non-Profit/Foundation directly or 6 years professional experience in Non-Profit Management, Community engagement or for a Non-Profit/Foundation directly and High School Diploma or GED
* Proven examples of adaptation to changing priorities among a wide variety of activity
* Demonstrated cross functional project management skills
* Deep understanding of the non-profit landscape and creating engaging employee programs
* Experience managing national programs with teammates of varying backgrounds and job roles
* Strong passion for service and nourishing community
* Ability to be respectfully assertive with external facilities to drive engagement in community programs
* Event planning and coordination both on large scale and smaller service opportunities
* Demonstrated communication skills, both written and verbal
* Proactive and comfortable in presenting improvements to existing processes to key stakeholder groups
* Accountability of oneself and others for a high standard of performance in promotion of trust
* Ability to solve a wide variety of complex problems, despite not being an expert in the area
* Appetite for learning new things and an ability to self-teach and find the answers proactively when they run into something they may not know
* Exhibit an entrepreneurial spirit and excitement to grow the ESG function
* Ability to take on new tasks that may be outside of one's comfort zone or typical scope of responsibilities

Good to have:
* Experience in food security and education programs
* Experience working with manufacturing teammates
* Budget management experience

Other considerations:
* Potential for travel, 2-3 trips per year
* Ardent Mills is headquartered in Denver, CO. Need to be in Denver office as needed, with the majority of the time being remote.

The successful candidate will be expected to commit to a periodic presence in the Denver HQ office, frequency can be discussed with hiring manager.
* Experience working for a food, manufacturing, or agriculture business

At Ardent Mills, everyone matters and everyone has a voice. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and team members and the decisions will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, age, political affiliation, or any other non-merit characteristic protected by law or not. Together, celebrating our differences, we make Ardent Mills.
The preceding position description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this position. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees in this position. The description, duties, functions, and responsibilities are subject to change at the discretion of Ardent Mills.

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At Ardent Mills, everyone matters and everyone has a voice. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and team members and the decisions will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, age, political affiliation, or any other non-merit characteristic protected by law or not. Together, celebrating our differences, we make Ardent Mills.

The preceding position description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this position. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees in this position. The description, duties, functions, and responsibilities are subject to change at the discretion of Ardent Mills.