Bosch
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Posted 2d ago
The Lead for Environmental Sustainability is a critical, senior strategic role within the Corporate Social Responsibility department at Bosch. This position is responsible for designing, championing, and executing our comprehensive environmental sustainability and ecological conservation strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and operationalize the Environmental Sustainability strategy across BGSW focus locations, with emphasis on water resilience, groundwater recharge and reuse, biodiversity, and potentially include other environment-based themes.
Do in-dept research and landscape mapping for the problem being addressed and design programs based on research and data.
Identify priority geographies and interventions through partner assessments, baseline studies and relevant technical inputs.
Build and manage partnerships with NGOs, government bodies, research institutions, startups, technology partners and other ecosystem stakeholders.
Support development of long-term programmes and partnerships aligned with BGSW CSR priorities and applicable CSR requirements.
Lead end-to-end implementation, including partner onboarding, MoUs, milestones, budgets, site visits, reviews and documentation.
Track programme performance, risks, timelines and deliverables and drive timely corrective actions with implementing partners.
End-to-end fund management includes periodic utilization monitoring, financial tracking and reporting and financial audits.
Elaborate program monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment across different impact measuring frameworks.
Support employee volunteering and stakeholder engagement linked to environmental programmes.
Requirements
Postgraduate degree in Environmental Science / Engineering, Water Resource Management, Natural Resource Management, Rural Management, Sustainability, Social Work preferred or any other relevant degrees.
8 to 12 years of relevant experience in environmental sustainability, CSR or development-sector programme management.
Demonstrated experience managing multi-location or multi-partner programmes, preferably in water, natural resource management, biodiversity, climate resilience or related themes.
Strong programme and project management skills covering partner selection, due diligence, MoU development, fund management and budgeting, milestone tracking & field monitoring, and Impact Assessment.
Technical knowledge of water resource management, watershed / groundwater recharge, water reuse and related environmental concepts sufficient to engage technical partners and review programme proposals.
Understanding of CSR based technical and environmental governance and compliance requirements in India.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with NGOs, government, technical institutions, partners, internal leadership and reporting.
Proficiency in MS Office and comfort working with digital project monitoring, reporting and dashboard platforms.
