Community Development Manager, Strategic Partnership Office

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience working with local municipalities, associations, key opinion formers, non-profit decision makers, education institutions, and community members.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time as required.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master’s degree in Education, Public Relations/Policy or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience using analytics to make decisions.
• Experience in one or more of the following: data centers, utilities, government, advanced manufacturing.
• Experience developing and launching local, state, national or global public-private partnerships
• Ability to grow in a fluid multinational environment working across multiple lines of business.
• Ability to communicate in French fluently.

About the job

Google's infrastructure needs go far beyond server computers. As our products and services scale globally, we work behind the scenes to secure infrastructure to build Google's future. The Strategic Partnership Office (SPO) operates at the intersection of industrial innovation, external affairs, and civic impact, bridging Google’s technology capabilities with real-world partners. Within SPO, the Economic and Community Development team is a vertically integrated organization responsible for analyzing and mitigating economic, community, and labor risks to deliver an optimized inventory of assets meeting business operating needs, ensuring growth and resilience through place-based strategies. We provide hyperlocal civic impact, community sustainability, and external engagement strategies, programs, and tools to expand economic, community, and workforce development outcomes.

The Community Development and Engagement (CDE) team drives business value by: 1) accelerating new technical infrastructure delivery and growth; 2) protecting Google’s license to operate globally; and 3) leveraging community partnerships and innovative expertise to deliver impactful solutions.

As a Community Development Manager based in Belgium, you will combine community engagement and industry knowledge to support Google’s infrastructure growth in Belgium. This role supports SPO’s strategic goals by providing data-driven insights and executing programmatic engagement based on community assessments across existing and prospective data center markets. You will partner with cross-functional teams to drive measurable social impact, cultivate relationships with key opinion formers (KOFs), government officials, and community leaders, and research new in-market opportunities. Additionally, you will help entrench community development best practices across a rapidly growing organization, serving as a subject matter expert on data center delivery and strategic community engagement.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team leaders and peers to develop strategies to scale sub regional community affairs coverage in emerging markets, focusing on place-based frameworks and partnerships to produce location-specific development plans based on research data turned into insights to prioritize community needs.
• Maintain key internal relationships with a broad set of internal stakeholders, including acquisition and development, energy, government affairs and public policy, cloud supply chain and operations, marketing, Google.organisation, and local Google data center teams.
• Engage with key opinion formers, community groups such as municipal leaders, industry partners, economic development organizations, schools, education institutions, and non-profits to ensure initiatives are centered around community needs and accelerating business objectives.
• Develop communication tools and processes to educate local communities about the role and impact of our data centers, and create locally focused investment plans that are self-sustaining.