Job Title: Volunteering Strategy & Operations Manager
Location: Remote
Duration: Temp - 9 months
Pay Range: $58/hr $65/hr (W2)
Job ID: 409843
About BCforward
BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity.
Job Description
We are seeking a Volunteering Strategy & Operations Manager to lead client's global employee volunteering portfolio. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in enterprise-scale employee volunteering, engagement strategy, Benevity platform administration, cross-functional campaign leadership, and internal communications and a proven ability to translate organizational goals into scalable programs and measurable participation outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Own planning, coordination, and continuous improvement of global volunteer programs and campaigns.
- Design and evolve flagship initiatives, including 40 Days of Doing Good, We Day, Volunteer Awards, and Volunteer Summit.
- Build campaign plans with milestones, owner roles, dependencies, readiness needs, participation targets, and escalation paths.
- Source, pilot, and evaluate scalable volunteer opportunities to engage employees globally.
- Cultivate and manage nonprofit partnerships to deliver high-impact volunteer opportunities.
- Strengthen linkage between recognition, storytelling, participation growth, and leadership engagement.
- Ensure operational launch readiness with clear ownership, transitions, and issue management.
- Capture lessons learned and drive process improvements for future cycles.
- Lead policy governance, reviews, updates, and compliance monitoring for volunteer programs.
- Partner across functions to manage grants, reward budgets, and program assets including t-shirts and SharePoint content.
- Engage Social Impact leads, volunteering hubs, BRGs, and champions to drive participation and adoption.
- Coordinate internal stakeholders on timing, audience needs, and activation opportunities.
- Provide strategic guidance to business units to increase volunteer participation.
- Align with Communications on leader outreach and employee calls to action.
- Serve as the hands-on Benevity expert, configuring programs, workflows, forms, campaign mechanics, and resolving execution issues.
- Own reporting and data quality, including business rules, hour validation, reward workflows, outlier review, reconciliation, and audit-ready evidence.
- Build dashboards and trackers or partner with reporting teams to connect activity to goals and recommend actions.
- Maintain the operating system and documentation across SharePoint, playbooks, templates, trackers, and access paths to enable repeatability.
- Embed a communications mindset in program design and partner on message strategy, channels, leader toolkits, and storytelling.
- Activate stakeholders with clear roles, materials, timing, and feedback loops, coordinated with platform readiness.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 10+ years in enterprise volunteer programs, employee engagement, philanthropy, social impact, or internal communications.
- Proven leadership of global or enterprise-wide campaigns from strategy through execution across regions and functions.
- Expert hands-on Benevity proficiency, including setup, configuration, administration, reporting, data validation, troubleshooting, and audit processes.
- Ability to operate as a strategic leader and individual contributor, delivering complex program and campaign work.
- Strong strategic thinking and advisory capability with senior leaders, translating goals into portfolio and participation strategies.
- Experience cultivating nonprofit partnerships and scaling volunteer opportunities.
- Background in governance, policy oversight, compliance, and stewardship of grants, budgets, rewards, or assets.
- Command of program management fundamentals including workback planning, dependencies, risks, decisions, alignment, launch readiness, and improvement.
- Data-driven approach to measure participation, volunteer hours, experience, and effectiveness.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and produce clear, reusable documentation in Benevity, SharePoint, forms, and trackers.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills with influence in a global, matrixed environment.
- Required communications background or equivalent experience in employee or internal communications, message strategy, stakeholder communications, storytelling, or campaign communications.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in a corporate foundation, CSR, employee giving, or global volunteering function.
- Experience supporting or presenting to Foundation governance bodies, senior leadership, or Boards.
- Experience designing skills-based volunteering, accelerators, advisory models, or talent-to-nonprofit matching.
- Experience producing volunteer awards, summits, recognition programs, or large-scale employee events.
- Experience managing nonprofit grants, reward budgets, vendors, or distributed assets.
- Formal communications leadership with storytelling and content production capabilities.
Why BCforward?
At BCforward, we believe in advancing lives and careers. When you join our team, you gain access to:
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Opportunities for growth with global clients.
- A supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and people.
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and projects.
About Our Commitment
BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
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