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Join us at the cutting edge of Amazon\'s Sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements to support Amazon\'s long-term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we\'re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, creative, and driven people.

The Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) organization capitalizes on Amazon\'s scale, speed, and ability to build, invent and simplify, a more resilient and sustainable company. We manage our social and environmental impacts globally, and drive solutions that enable our customers, businesses, and the world to become more sustainable.

The Global Engagement (GE) team, within the Social Responsibility function, is a specialist team, comprising of subject-matter experts around the world in countries where Amazon sources and operates. We work with Amazon business teams to provide suppliers and service providers with guidance and tools on how to remediate and prevent risks, and drive positive outcomes for workers.

We are looking for a Global Engagement Lead, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), to manage Social Responsibility (SR) work and ensure that suppliers, service providers and vendors in the region have the understanding, skills, and tools needed to proactively identify and address risks to workers and communities. You will be sitting at the intersection of and required to partner with Amazon\'s operations businesses and SR for WWOps (Amazon Worldwide Operations) team. You will drive timely identification and escalation of existing/emerging risks and opportunities and recommend program interventions/solutions that are based on the specific risks, in the region.

If you see yourself being able to catalyze SR initiatives, manage complex cross-functional teams, and be able to influence with limited/no authority broadly across Amazon, we\'d like to meet you. Your work will help us drive action to address our salient human rights issues and embed socially responsible practices into Amazon businesses.

Key job responsibilities

• Engage with various Amazon businesses, SR for WW Ops and other internal teams to understand business needs, identify gaps, assess risk, and implement strategies to operationalize Amazon\'s Supply Chain Standards (SCS) throughout our value chain and operations.
• Proactively identify, advise, align and coordinate with Amazon businesses on identified risks, opportunities, and corresponding actions.
• Facilitate discussions with internal teams and select external stakeholders to design and test regional risk management mechanisms and strategies
• Lead day-to-day execution of Global Engagement services to the Amazon businesses and supplier/vendors to enable their capacity building around identified priority issues and risks
• Initiate and lead assessments/investigations and partnership discussions, negotiations and contract development and oversee implementation of improvement programs
• Explore development of dedicated programs across Amazon\'s key commitment areas, particularly around: worker voice, responsible recruitment, fair wages, health and safety and forced labour.

About the team
Amazon Social Responsibility\'s (SR) mission is to ensure the people, workers, and communities that support our entire value chain and operations are treated with dignity and respect. We build mechanisms that embed and scale respect for human rights across Amazon businesses. We implement this commitment through Amazon\'s Supply Chain Standards that apply to all suppliers of goods and services for Amazon and Amazon\'s subsidiaries, including service providers, vendors, selling partners, contractors and sub-contractors.

Inclusive Team Culture:
Here at Amazon, it\'s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Work/Life Balance:
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there\'s nothing we can\'t achieve.

Mentorship and Career Growth:
We have a career path for you no matter what stage you\'re in when you start here. We\'re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth\'s Best Employer. That\'s why you\'ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Dubai, ARE

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor degree in Project Management, Sustainability, Social Work or Business Administration.
• 8+ years of experience in human rights or ethical/responsible sourcing within global supply chains and/or operations.
• 8+ years of experience delivering cross functional projects
• Prior experience owning development of strategy, end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; communicating successfully across cultures
• Experience in influencing key stakeholders both internally and externally

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working with operations, transportation, logistics, and/or procurement functions is
• Experience working in MENA region
• Experience working on (or demonstrated passion for) forced labor/human trafficking/modern slavery, human rights, labor rights, multi-stakeholder initiatives, international development, labor rights training, or social responsibility
• Experience working in an international context
• Experience working with external stakeholders such as NGOs, investors, and/or government.

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