Human Rights Program Manager

Human Rights Program Manager

  

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Job Description:

   

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) advances the way people live and work. We bring together curious minds to create breakthrough technology solutions, helping our customers make their mark on the world.

Our legacy inspires us as we forge ahead, focused and dedicated to helping our customers make their mark on the world. What sets us apart? Our people. Our people’s relentless commitment to partner, innovate, and act. HPE hires the best and places very high importance on developing our people in the ways in which they want to grow.  We operate in global teams, enjoy what we do, and ensure a very flexible work environment.  If solving the world’s biggest technology challenges sounds like the right career path for you, read on.

HPE’s human rights program advances human rights across the company and our value chain. We collaborate with colleagues and partners to develop and manage human rights due diligence consistent with our industry-leading Global Human Rights Policy. Our due diligence includes identifying, assessing and working with partners to mitigate risks. We aim to not only reduce risk to individuals, but to have a positive impact on society.

The individual will support HPE’s human rights work. Responsibilities may be focused on addressing specific, persistent issues and/or implementing structural changes. This individual will also promote and maintain healthy and productive internal and external stakeholder relationships to further program objectives. The position requires both subject-matter expertise and strategic and tactical program leadership, demanding collaboration and management by influence.  

The Human Rights Program Manager will be a member of the Global Social and Environmental Responsibility (Global SER) team within HPE’s Ethics & Compliance Office, part of the Office of Legal and Administrative Affairs, and will report to HPE’s Director, Global Human Rights. 

Responsibilities will primarily focus on human rights in our own operations and downstream value chain, with opportunity to engage across all programs, advancing our overall data and metrics. Responsibilities may include: 

• Managing and developing cross functional, cross regional human rights due diligence programs and processes, especially in Responsible Use of technology
• Developing and maintaining standards to advance HPE’s human rights program, including strategizing and implementing advancements in our stakeholder engagement, expanding and driving our work on human rights into our sales partner channel, and playing a key role in our work on the ethics of artificial intelligence
• Contributing to the overall human rights program strategy, including evaluation of program effectiveness, trend analysis, benchmarking, assessing readiness for emerging human rights due diligence regulations, and advancing our roadmap on human rights
• Managing our regular human rights impact assessment across our whole value chain
• Managing or contributing to our human rights report, while supporting other publications
• Collaborating with industry groups, non-profit organizations, and rights holder representatives on human rights initiatives and programs, as appropriate
• Supporting and where possible leading data management, program progress, and reporting against internal targets and externally communicated social goals
• Working with global teams and sales and technology partners across the world; flexibility to occasionally work outside normal business hours to accommodate time zone differences

Qualifications

Education and Experience Required 

• First level university degree or equivalent experience; advanced university degree preferred
• Three or more years of relevant experience (or equivalent combination of advance degree and relevant experience)

Knowledge and Skills Required

• Subject matter expertise in business and human rights, including a fundamental understanding and application of the United Nations’ Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) or the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Strong understanding of emerging human rights issues in the corporate context
• Excellent research, analytical, and problem solving skills
• Familiarity and ability to work extensively with workplace tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent team and project management skills, including project structuring
• Database management and data analytics skills
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and generate new and innovative solutions to complex problems

Desirable Knowledge and Skills  

• Experience implementing and operating human rights activities consistent with the UNGPs, and measuring the success of such a program
• Experience participating in leading industry organizations in the human rights space
• Familiarity with human rights issues in the context of responsible product use and the ethics of artificial intelligence
• Experience in managing stakeholder engagement including facilitating discussions, responding to queries or concerns and building effective partnerships with civil society
• An advanced degree, preferably in a human rights-related field, business, corporate responsibility and/or public policy
• Presentation skills
• Experience in the technology sector or technical education

Travel – occasional

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Complex Project Management, Contract Management, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Customer Experience Strategy, Data Science, Design Thinking, Empathy, Engineering Product Development, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Global Sourcing, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Manufacturing Supply Chain, Negotiation {+ 4 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

Job:

Supply Chain & Operations

Job Level:

Specialist

    

    

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

   

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.

   

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