CSR Lead - Environment & Sustainability

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities :

Job Description - Summary

The Lead for Environmental Sustainability is a critical, senior strategic role within our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) department. This position is responsible for designing, championing, and executing our comprehensive environmental sustainability and ecological conservation strategy. The successful candidate will transition existing initiatives and establish new, high-impact programs designed to minimize our ecological footprint, drive carbon neutrality, champion biodiversity, and foster deep stewardship within the local and global communities we touch.

This role acts as both a strategic architect and an operational driver, collaborating closely with cross-functional internal units (such as Facilities, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Legal) and deep-diving into external community relations, NGO partnerships, and environmental regulatory compliance.

Roles & Responsibilities

Strategy & Partnerships

· Develop and operationalize the Environmental Sustainability strategy across BGSW focus locations, with emphasis on water resilience, groundwater recharge and reuse, biodiversity, and potentially include other environment-based themes.

· Do in-dept research and landscape mapping for the problem being addressed and design programs based on research and data.

· Identify priority geographies and interventions through partner assessments, baseline studies and relevant technical inputs.

· Build and manage partnerships with NGOs, government bodies, research institutions, startups, technology partners and other ecosystem stakeholders.

· Support development of long-term programmes and partnerships aligned with BGSW CSR priorities and applicable CSR requirements.

Programme Management

· Lead end-to-end implementation, including partner onboarding, MoUs, milestones, budgets, site visits, reviews and documentation.

· Track programme performance, risks, timelines and deliverables and drive timely corrective actions with implementing partners.

· End-to-end fund management includes periodic utilization monitoring, financial tracking and reporting and financial audits.

· Elaborate program monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment across different impact measuring frameworks.

· Support employee volunteering and stakeholder engagement linked to environmental programmes.

Technology & Data

· Technology can play an enhancing role in the impact and outcomes, extend reach or deepen the benefits to the receiver. The role would also include to identify relevant technologies that can be embedded into the program and identify other opportunities to use GIS, remote sensing, sensors, water accounting, digital dashboards and other relevant technologies to strengthen programme design, monitoring and reporting and enhance the entire programme.

· Work with internal and external technology partners to enable scalable and data-driven environmental interventions.

Impact Assessment, Data Management & Reporting

· Work with impact and programme teams to establish baselines, indicators, Theory of Change / Logical Frameworks / SROI, and appropriate impact measurement approaches for environmental projects.

· Coordinate relevant third-party environmental assessments, water accounting / verification and audits in line with applicable standards and programme requirements.

· Ensure project documentation and partner records are complete and audit-ready in relevant CSR monitoring and reporting systems.

· Contribute environmental data, impact narratives and programme updates for CSR, ESG / BRSR and leadership reporting.

Qualifications

Educational qualification:

· Postgraduate degree in Environmental Science / Engineering, Water Resource Management, Natural Resource Management, Rural Management, Sustainability, Social Work preferred or any other relevant degrees.

Experience

· 8 to 12 years of relevant experience in environmental sustainability, CSR or development-sector programme management.

· Demonstrated experience managing multi-location or multi-partner programmes, preferably in water, natural resource management, biodiversity, climate resilience or related themes.

Mandatory / Required Skills

· Strong programme and project management skills covering partner selection, due diligence, MoU development, fund management and budgeting, milestone tracking & field monitoring, and Impact Assessment.

· Technical knowledge of water resource management, watershed / groundwater recharge, water reuse and related environmental concepts sufficient to engage technical partners and review programme proposals.

· Understanding of CSR based technical and environmental governance and compliance requirements in India.

· Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with NGOs, government, technical institutions, partners, internal leadership and reporting.

· Proficiency in MS Office and comfort working with digital project monitoring, reporting and dashboard platforms.

Additional Information

· Base location: Bangalore (preferred) or Coimbatore, with periodic travel to other BGSW locations and project sites.

· The role requires willingness to travel for programme reviews, field visits and stakeholder engagement.

· Having an wholistic skill and knowledge on environmental science and many other related environments associated themes.

Company Description

Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited is a 100% owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH, one of the world's leading global supplier of technology and services, offering end-to-end Engineering, IT and Business Solutions. With over 27,000+ associates, it’s the largest software development center of Bosch, outside Germany, indicating that it is the Technology Powerhouse of Bosch in India with a global footprint and presence in the US, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.