Apac Head of Social Impact

At Dentsu our purpose is to help create lasting good and sustainable value for society. Social Impact is our strategy for achieving this. It’s an articulation of how Dentsu uses its collective passion, talent and capability to generate shared value globally. It’s about future proofing our business, scaling impact through our client eco-system and creating a more diverse, equitable and inclusive society.

**Job Title**:
Head of Social Impact, APAC

**_RESPONSIBILITIES _**
- _Support in the development of global and regional strategy to build an inspiring, realistic, strong Social Impact value chain plan and narrative for APAC. This includes research and expert discussions to accelerate and amplify the Social Impact priorities for APAC. _
- _Monitor sustainability trends and competitors initiatives to support process improvement within dentsu. _
- _Manage internal systems and procedures relevant to sustainability, community engagement, committee governance and processes including NGO and Agency onboarding. _
- _Create and design regional programmes and interventions that align with global strategy and can be tailored to local market requirements _
- _Establish partnerships and initiatives to accelerate progress, engage stakeholders and raise awareness of Dentsu’s role in driving delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This means collaborating with Sustainability partners (e.g. SB), governments, NGOs, human-centred change experts, insights, dentsu partners to help us build a stronger sustainability value chain. _
- _Collaborate with global communications and marketing teams to create thought leadership and generate awareness and advocacy of Dentsu’s strategy internally and externally _
- _Engage stakeholders across the markets to secure buy-in for the strategy and mobilise resources _
- _Support the global social impact team with the global reporting cycle and relevant ratings and disclosure. This includes providing support to stakeholders for statutory/regulatory filings and CSR Audit. _
- _Foster and drive team coordination, collaboration and provide leadership to a virtual and multi-cultural team. _
- _Work with Social Impact global team on the supply side to ensure we are in alignment and creating amplifying workstreams. _
- _Bring together APAC wide community of change-makers and catalysts and build the Social Impact culture. Using the purpose as an anchor, inspire a community of people across dentsu - working in and across markets, regions, SLs and Functions, as well as Social Impact team globally - to integrate assets into commercial propositions and make it real. _
- _Role model the 8 ways behaviours through Mindful Leadership - employing openness, intuition, empathy, creativity, equality, balance, and energy, and grounded in our 8 ways, shared vision and purpose. Help build strength and power from within. _

**_Key Experience: _**
- _10 years in sustainability or related roles plus relevant experience in strategy, marketing, corporate affairs or policy. _
- _Experience in media, marketing or advertising for global brands - in-house or agency - preferred. _
- _Degree level qualified, and/or a master’s degree in sustainability, sustainable design, social sustainability studies, MBA or other related master’s degree is preferred. _
- _Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal and experience of engaging at C-suite level. _
- _Proven track record of creating, designing, executing and driving strategy in multi-cultural environments. Experience of working in Japan desirable. _
- _Established networks across the industry, NGOs, government, and academia. _
- _Good working knowledge of all or 2 of these 3 markets: India, China and Australia. _

**_Key Skills: _**
- _In-depth knowledge of sustainability and related disciplines as well as relevant frameworks and policies eg the UN Sustainable Development Goals, UN Global Compact etc. _
- _Creative, strategic, analytical, and innovative with the ability to translate complex thinking into strategy and initiatives _
- _A self-starter, with experience in diplomatically resolving issues through understanding conflicting inputs, achieving alignment, and proposing go-forward solutions. _
- _Drive a shift of mindset, to influence and mobilise cross-functional and multi-cultural stakeholders, both internally and externally. _
- _A leader who promotes collaboration and good teamwork _
- _Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to translate complex information into engaging strategies and proposals _
- _Fluent English. _

**_You will enjoy working in our team and perform well if you can answer “yes” to the following: _**
- _Can you get valuable things done even when there are multiple barriers to doing so? _
- _Are your default settings energetic, optimistic, actions focused, solutions focused? _
- _Can you thrive in a very agile, constantly and rapidly changing environment? _
- _Are you resilient and able to r