Human Rights Program Manager

This position is dedicated to leading HPE’s global human rights work, focusing on due diligence, stakeholder engagement, and progress metrics across operations and value chain.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 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

• First level university degree or equivalent experience; advanced university degree preferred.
• Three or more years of relevant experience (or equivalent combination of advanced degree and relevant experience).
• 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.
• Excellent research, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent team and project management skills, including project structuring.
• Database management and data analytics skills.
• Familiarity with Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and generate innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Experience implementing and measuring success of human rights activities consistent with the UNGPs.
• Experience participating in leading industry organizations in the human rights space.
• Experience with human rights issues in responsible product use and the ethics of artificial intelligence.
• Experience managing stakeholder engagement, including facilitating discussions and building partnerships with civil society.
• Presentation skills.

Travel

Occasional.

Equal Employment Opportunity

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Veteran/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are based on qualifications, merit, and business need.