This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Who We Are

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) advances the way people live and work. We bring together curious minds to create breakthrough technology solutions, helping our customers make their mark on the world.

Our legacy inspires us as we forge ahead, focused and dedicated to helping our customers make their mark on the world. What sets us apart? Our people. Our people’s relentless commitment to partner, innovate, and act. HPE hires the best and places very high importance on developing our people in the ways in which they want to grow. We operate in global teams, enjoy what we do, and ensure a very flexible work environment. If solving the world’s biggest technology challenges sounds like the right career path for you, read on.

HPE’s human rights program advances human rights across the company and our value chain. We collaborate with colleagues and partners to develop and manage human rights due diligence consistent with our industry-leading Global Human Rights Policy. Our due diligence includes identifying, assessing and working with partners to mitigate risks. We aim to not only reduce risk to individuals, but to have a positive impact on society.

The individual will support HPE’s human rights work. Responsibilities may be focused on addressing specific, persistent issues and/or implementing structural changes. This individual will also promote and maintain healthy and productive internal and external stakeholder relationships to further program objectives. The position requires both subject-matter expertise and strategic and tactical program leadership, demanding collaboration and management by influence.

The Human Rights Program Manager will be a member of the Global Social and Environmental Responsibility (Global SER) team within HPE’s Ethics & Compliance Office, part of the Office of Legal and Administrative Affairs, and will report to HPE’s Director, Global Human Rights.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will primarily focus on human rights in our own operations and downstream value chain, with opportunity to engage across all programs, advancing our overall data and metrics. Responsibilities may include:

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 advancements in our 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

Education and Experience Required

First level university degree or equivalent experience; advanced university degree preferred
Three or more years of relevant experience (or equivalent combination of advance degree and relevant experience)

Knowledge And Skills Required

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. Strong understanding of emerging human rights issues in the corporate context
Excellent research, analytical, and problem solving skills
Familiarity and ability to work extensively with workplace tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent team and project management skills, including project structuring
Database management and data analytics skills
Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and generate new and innovative solutions to complex problems

Desirable Knowledge and Skills

Experience implementing and operating human rights activities consistent with the UNGPs, and measuring the success of such a program
Experience participating in leading industry organizations in the human rights space
Familiarity with human rights issues in the context of responsible product use and the ethics of artificial intelligence
Experience in managing stakeholder engagement including facilitating discussions, responding to queries or concerns and building effective partnerships with civil society
An advanced degree, preferably in a human rights-related field, business, corporate responsibility and/or public policy
Presentation skills
Experience in the technology sector or technical education

Travel – occasional

Additional Skills

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Complex Project Management, Contract Management, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Customer Experience Strategy, Data Science, Design Thinking, Empathy, Engineering Product Development, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Global Sourcing, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Manufacturing Supply Chain, Negotiation {+ 4 more}

What We Can Offer You

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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