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Meet the Team

Cisco’s Social Impact and Sustainability Office (SISO) powers the company’s purpose: to build an inclusive future for all. As part of this mission, the Community Impact team empowers employees to make a positive difference within and outside of the company. This team leads initiatives that enable employees to contribute their time, talent, and resources to causes they care about, fostering connection, collaboration, and inclusion across Cisco. Work with us as we bridge cultivating a culture of engagement and creating scalable, measurable programs to build connected, resilient communities.   

Your Impact  

As a Program Coordinator for Community Impact, you will be responsible for supporting the global infrastructure that supports 90,000 employees in their philanthropic efforts, ensuring our give-back activities are both impactful and efficient.  In this role, you will lead enterprise-wide initiatives that integrate Cisco’s purpose with measurable performance goals. Your day-to-day impact will include:

• Help build a best-in-class Community Impact Program and experience for employees 

• Drive global community impact engagement by providing support to employees, Community Impact Champions, Inclusive Communities (ERGs), and business units through the Community Impact Portal (Cisco’s Benevity platform), facilitating seamless volunteer management, fundraising, and donation matching 

• Review and approve/decline employees’ external donation match requests 

• Review and approve/decline employees’ match eligible volunteer hours 

• Review and approve/decline employee created volunteer opportunities  

• Respond to employee inquiries about the Matching Gifts Program and the Community Impact Portal 

• Collaborate with the broader Community Impact Team to provide general Community Impact programmatic administrative tasks 

• Support relevant global community focused teams to support their use of the Community Impact Portal 

• Demonstrate a commitment to supporting fellow team members to ensure a cohesive and high-performing work environment. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• 1.5+ years' work experience in corporate social impact, corporate social responsibility, or ESG, spaces 

• 1.5+ years’ experience managing Benevity’s Spark platform, specifically reviewing employee match requests, employee volunteer time, and employee volunteer opportunities 

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, minor in Marketing 

• 1 year experience building Airtable Bases and Forms, managing SharePoint Folders and Sites, scheduling Webex meetings and participating in Webex Spaces 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Digital Marketing 

• 1+ years of work experience with strong preference toward experience in social impact, corporate social responsibility, or ESG, spaces 

• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships and engage effectively with diverse stakeholders. 

• Natural communicator and collaborator, adept at building rapport  

• Proven dedication to community engagement through active volunteerism, or professional experience within the nonprofit sector 

• Adaptable and comfortable in an ever-changing environment, able to shift and redirect efforts and focus as required 

• Proficiency in tools such as Airtable, SharePoint, and Outlook 

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.