Program Manager, Hiring with Disabilities, Asia Pacific and Japan - Opportunity to Work Remotely - VMware | New Day Jobs (Yangon, Myanmar)

As an advocate for change you will enable VMware to be increasingly accessible to People with Disabilities, supporting the operational management of Asia Pacific wide Diversity & inclusion programs focused on hiring and retaining people with disabilities and driving support and training initiatives around creating an inclusive workplace. Working with Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Communications, Marketing, regional business stakeholders, specialist agencies and educational institutions focused on inclusion of People with Disabilities, you will create programs to support hiring, training and retention efforts. Working closely with our Education and Accessibility teams, you will ensure we have a robust and repeatable training program adjusted to specific disabilities. You will closely align with our Communications and Social Media teams, building communications strategy for our programs.

Initially focusing on China, Korea & Japan,this role will scale across APAC.

Job Role And Responsibilities

• Work with communities and foundations focused on empowering People with Disabilities to identify talent and positively leverage accessibility technologies to enable the best flexible working environment for candidates.
• Manage key external stakeholder relationships by building strong partnerships with relevant institutions across Asia Pacific and Japan for example (& not limited to) Visually Impaired, Hearing Impaired, Mental Health Disability, Cognitive Disability, Learning Disability, Physical Disability schools & institutions
• Work with Talent Acquisition to build and manage disability focused hiring programs in region
• Drive discussion and support business in rethinking job roles to make an inclusive workplace
• Project Manage and provide regular dashboard update to key stakeholders
• Ability to make decisions/recommendations based on changing requirements/needs based on the needs of the initiative
• Develop success criteria and build mechanisms to track & report
• Report progress every month on the KPIs defined with key stakeholders at a regional level
• Engage with the steering committee members to work across different workstreams like go-to-market, web and content delivery, education services, talent acquisition groups, HR, Legal & IT
• Use targeted thinking to prioritize initiatives and help to drive sustainable change
• Cascade messaging, training, and updates on processes within region from the Disability POD
• Work with Marketing and Communications to create thought leadership platforms to drive awareness and affect hiring of people with disabilities
• Make decisions/recommendations based on changing requirements/needs based on the needs of the initiative
• Strong partnership with regional disability PODs
• Be an advocate for VMware to customer/partners, advocating change and acceptance in the IT industry
• Mentor, lead by example and be an advocate for People with Disabilities both internally and externally
• Publish real-life stories and example People with Disabilities so that they are inspired to join us, and stay with us

Skills And Qualifications

• Passionate about equality of People with Disability in the workplace
• Experience in working with and supporting groups of People with Disabilities
• Requires strong verbal and written communication skills to communicate effectively with key partners, including both internal senior management and external business partners
• Experience in Project management and driving projects from start to finish
• Fluency in Chinese/ Japanese will be a useful skill for this role

Reporting Manager: This role will report into the Head of Communications and Special Projects, APJ

• The role is flexible in Asia Pacific Time zone and may be based in Singapore, China, Korea or Japan and is an opportunity to working remotely

Category : Business Strategy and Operations

Subcategory: Project Management

Experience: Manager and Professional

Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time

Posted Date: 2021-01-05

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