Description
The Community Impact and Investment (CI&I) team at Capital One creates impactful community outcomes and positions the company as a strategically bold, innovative, and mission-driven financial institution.
This role plays a critical part in translating community insights into national and regional market strategies and philanthropic investments that align with Capital One's enterprise priorities and community impact goals.
Responsibilities:
- Gathering & Synthesizing Market Intelligence:
- Oversee research and market scans to identify, analyze, and cultivate strategic partnerships across national and regional community organizations, social enterprises, and key public-private institutions.
- Engage with senior executive partners and external leaders to nurture high-value relationships that advance community needs and scale systemic solutions for socioeconomic mobility.
- Lead cross-functional risk mitigation and compliance oversight across national and market-level CI&I initiatives.
- Transforming Market Intelligence Into Tangible Impact:
- Deliver compelling executive content, authoring and delivering executive-level presentations and strategic briefs to bring national and regional market insights to CI&I, Global Enterprise Affairs, and senior business line leaders to drive decision-making.
- Lead investment proposals, spearheading proposal design in close collaboration with market teams, analytics, and line of business leaders to build compelling business cases for national and local market investments.
- Direct and evaluate the investment portfolio of Greater Washington and national partners and associated philanthropic grants, optimizing alignment with overarching enterprise strategy.
- Establish impact metrics and drive reporting for national and regional footprints to evaluate Capital One's community presence, sentiment, and mobilization of enterprise resources.
- Use data to understand challenges and proactively recommend solutions, seeking out existing solutions before recommending or creating new ones.
- Tell the story of Capital One's investment strategy to different audiences using adaptive communication.
- Support strategic initiatives on behalf of Market Engagement.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or military experience
- At least 7 years of experience in project management, program management, strategy, or process transformation
- At least 5 years of experience leading corporate social responsibility, community impact, or public affairs initiatives
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated ability to use data and metrics to understand problems and assess program effectiveness
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean, Agile, or Six Sigma certification
- 7+ years of experience in corporate social responsibility, community relations, or strategy consulting in a corporate environment
- 5+ years of experience managing external stakeholder relationships, cross-sector partnerships, or national grantmaking portfolios
- Experience in budget management, process optimization, or building scalable workflows
- Experience working in financial services, technology, government, nonprofit or other regulated industries
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with a focus on clarity, tailoring content to specific audiences, and data-backed storytelling
- Demonstrated proficiency in utilizing GenAI applications to solve business problems, analyze data sets, or automate routine processes.
Travel Requirements:
- Up to 30% travel as needed, including attending events before and after normal business hours and overnight trips/conferences.
Salary Range:
- $151,900 - $173,400 per year
Benefits:
- Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support total well-being