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Community Relations Representative

4500 Marathon Petroleum Company LP
Full-time
Remote friendly

An exciting career awaits you


At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

Marathon Petroleum (MPC) is seeking a motivated, knowledgeable, and resilient individual to represent MPC with key stakeholders in the communities where it operates. This is an exciting role supporting MPC’s efforts to elevate our social responsibility vision, engage community and other stakeholders, and promote sustainable growth.

This role will support activities in St. Paul Park, Minnesota in addition to regions of North Dakota (Bismarck/Mandan and Dickinson) where the company has business interests.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Key member of a team of regionally based Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) representatives responsible for planning and executing corporate social responsibility strategies, community relations, and community investment activities and budget at the site level:
    • Develop and implement CSR, community relations, and community investment plans informed by strong knowledge of local community dynamics, needs and trends.
    • Identify high-impact, strategic community investment opportunities while developing key partnerships in the communities where MPC operates.
    • Plan and execute programs and initiatives in collaboration with site leadership, government affairs, human resources and community leaders.
    • Coordinate and facilitate committees to execute employee giving and volunteerism programs that enhance employee engagement, as well as MPC’s relationships in the community.
    • Facilitate outreach to community leaders and stakeholders in support of incident/crisis response efforts, at times in accordance with the national incident management system framework.
  • Work with corporate and operations leadership to collaboratively develop, execute, evaluate and refine site-level or regional stakeholder engagement strategies.
  • Collaborating and leading with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Evaluate and respond to community investment funding requests, review, track and report on all community investment budget allocations for the region of responsibility.
  • Provide local/regional perspective and input to the enterprise-wide corporate social responsibility and stakeholder engagement vision, strategy and multi-year implementation plan.
  • Regularly update leaders on the effectiveness of CSR and community relations plans and make recommendations for continuous improvement.
  • Measure and communicate value of CSR activities, track and report progress against goals with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Provide content for various internal and external communications, including the annual Sustainability Report and company social media channels, highlighting key CSR and community relations activities and results.
  • Provide regular updates on MPC enterprise-wide and local developments to key external stakeholders; may plan and execute Community Advisory Panel (CAP) meetings.
  • Represent MPC on various non-profit organization boards.
  • Lead special projects and performs additional duties as needed.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Bachelor’s degree is required. Major in business, communications, public affairs, policy, non-profit management, engineering, social sciences or related field is preferred.
  • Minimum of six (6) years of relevant experience is required. Specialty in corporate social responsibility, community relations, education, communications or human resources in a business, non-profit, budget management, finance or governmental setting highly preferred.
    • At least 6 years of demonstrated experience leading initiatives focused on a range of local community issues and topics highly preferred.
    • Deep knowledge of and presence in the communities being represented highly preferred.
    • Experience in the energy, manufacturing or transportation industries highly preferred.

SKILLS:

  • Strong internal and external relationship-building skills and comfort interacting with all levels of an organization as well as leading teams with ‘informal authority.’
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to generate support across an organization and among internal and external stakeholders.
  • Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and sense of urgency; takes the initiative to build plans and processes applying expertise and insights gathered through collaboration and listening.
  • Values teamwork and collaboration and is willing to perform a wide range of tasks with a strong willingness to advance knowledge.
  • Accurately assesses problems and effectively and efficiently arrives at solutions by applying expertise and strong judgement.
  • Up to 20% travel.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Public Policy, Law, Sustainability or Engineering or related field Experience working with charities, grass-roots efforts, polling, ESG analysis or similar areas Professional Level 1 (P1): 0-2 years of experience Professional Level 2 (P2): 2 or more years of experience Professional Level 3 (P3): 4 or more years of experience Professional Level 4 (P4): 6 or more years of experience Professional Level 5 (P5): 10 or more years of experience

As an energy industry leader, our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth.

Location:

St Paul Park, Minnesota

Additional locations:

Mandan, North Dakota

Job Requisition ID:

00010436

Location Address:

301 Saint Paul Park Rd

Education:

Bachelors (Required)

Employee Group:

Full time

Employee Subgroup:

Regular

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision-making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, click here.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Marathon Petroleum LP, please contact our Human Resources Department at talentacquisition@marathonpetroleum.com. Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation. Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement. Detailed benefit information is available at https://mympcbenefits.com.The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.


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