Our Purpose
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Title and Summary
Director, Sustainability SolutionsWho is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, digital partners, businesses and other organizations worldwide by enabling electronic payments and making those payment transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible.
Our company’s aspiration is to power economies and empower people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers. Every day, our dedicated teams around the world are focused on addressing real needs and building toward this goal. They bring their creativity, their knowledge and their unique perspectives to drive innovation and our business in meaningful ways.
Our network, services and partnerships drive our commitment of doing well by doing good. We know that we can only prosper when the world prospers. That comes when growth is sustainable and inclusive and when prosperity is shared.
Overview
Through our Priceless Planet Coalition (PPC), we are collaborating with individuals, businesses and corporate partners to help address climate change by funding the restoration of 100 million trees. Since launching the PPC in 2020, we have engaged more than 150 corporate partners globally to support forest restoration projects that seek to mitigate global GHG emissions, promote biodiversity and benefit the communities that live in or near reforested landscapes.
The Priceless Planet Coalition employs a forest restoration model dedicated to regrowing forests in locations that represent a heightened global need. We partner with Conservation International and World Resources Institute, who lead the Priceless Planet Coalition’s mobilization and coordination of restoration efforts, collaborating with local communities and stakeholders for long-term forest stewardship and employing science-based best practices for the selection, implementation and long-term monitoring of restoration efforts.
There is increasingly strong sentiment in society to take action against the impacts of climate change, and we must leverage our technology to make it simple and convenient for individuals to do so. Through existing and emerging products, we can educate consumers about the carbon footprint of their purchases to make mindful spending choices. Our capabilities enable fast and secure methods for donations towards our reforestation programs. We deepen the trust our contributors have in the Coalition via tracking and reporting online tools that show the progress of reforestation, from planting to maturity, and estimate the sequestered CO2.
PPC is a core part of Mastercard’s overarching responsibility for environmental stewardship, whereby we manage our environmental footprint and create environmentally conscious solutions.
Role
Under the leadership of the global PPC lead, the successful candidate will be accountable for developing and executing PPC fundraising strategies to support regional fundraising KPIs and campaign design, engaging new and existing PPC partners to raise funds towards our goal.
Additional responsibilities will include:
• Foster a close relationship between global and regional teams as well as other key stakeholders – including sales & account teams, and subject matter experts – to gather feedback and drive ongoing program improvements
• Identify and manage globally owned scaled fundraising opportunities
• Partner with the Corporate Sustainability team to supply KPIs that will be used in external reporting (e.g., ESG Report)
• Analyze and improve operational process, policies and procedures associated with PPC
All About You
You will have relevant experience in the fundraising/NGO sector, program management, market development. You have a strong interest in sustainability programs and initiatives and may have had recent involvement. You will have exceptional relationship management expertise and a strong knowledge of activities and developments in the sustainability sector as they relate to the payments sector and more broadly.
Other key attributes:
• This position requires a highly collaborative and self-driven individual who will need to manage relationships across multiple functional areas, regions, executives as well as external partners
• Motivated, entrepreneurial, and a creative thinker to solve business challenges that arise
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to identify key issues, structure analysis and synthesize large amounts of data, and provide recommendations effectively
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior management and business partners both internally and externally
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility; team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible
• Ability to embrace complexity, but deliver/articulate simplicity
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
Required Skills:
• Bachelors degree required, Master’s degree preferred
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
