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Location: Must sit in the U.S.
Your Impact As a Program Coordinator for Community Impact, you will be responsible for supporting the global infrastructure that supports 90,000 employees in their philanthropic efforts, ensuring our give-back activities are both impactful and efficient. In this role, you will lead enterprise-wide initiatives that integrate Cisco's purpose with measurable performance goals. Your day-to-day impact will include:
- Help build a best-in-class Community Impact Program and experience for employees
- Drive global community impact engagement by providing support to employees, Community Impact Champions, Inclusive Communities (ERGs), and business units through the Community Impact Portal (Cisco's Benevity platform), facilitating seamless volunteer management, fundraising, and donation matching
- Review and approve/decline employees' external donation match requests
- Review and approve/decline employees' match eligible volunteer hours
- Review and approve/decline employee created volunteer opportunities
- Respond to employee inquiries about the Matching Gifts Program and the Community Impact Portal
- Collaborate with the broader Community Impact Team to provide general Community Impact programmatic administrative tasks
- Support relevant global community focused teams to support their use of the Community Impact Portal
- Demonstrate a commitment to supporting fellow team members to ensure a cohesive and high-performing work environment.
Minimum Qualifications:- 1.5+ years' work experience in corporate social impact, corporate social responsibility, or ESG, spaces
- 1.5+ years' experience managing Benevity's Spark platform, specifically reviewing employee match requests, employee volunteer time, and employee volunteer opportunities
- Bachelor's degree in Communications, minor in Marketing
- 1 year experience building Airtable Bases and Forms, managing SharePoint Folders and Sites, scheduling Webex meetings and participating in Webex Spaces
Preferred Qualifications:- Master's degree in Digital Marketing
- 1+ years of work experience with strong preference toward experience in social impact, corporate social responsibility, or ESG, spaces
- Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships and engage effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- Natural communicator and collaborator, adept at building rapport
- Proven dedication to community engagement through active volunteerism, or professional experience within the nonprofit sector
- Adaptable and comfortable in an ever-changing environment, able to shift and redirect efforts and focus as required
- Proficiency in tools such as Airtable, SharePoint, and Outlook
The starting salary range posted for this position is $93,800.00 to $119,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
- .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
- 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
- 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
- Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$93,800.00 - $137,300.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$82,800.00 - $121,100.00
* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
