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About this role:

This role provides strategic leadership for community relations programs that drive measurable impact and strengthen Wells Fargo's presence and reputation across the Metro Atlanta market. As an individual contributor, this role leads high-impact strategies that advance housing access, business growth, and financial health.

The individual will engage Metro Atlanta's ecosystem-including nonprofits and economic development networks-to expand equitable outcomes and develop community development strategies aligned with CRA priorities, including neighborhood stabilization and revitalization, community lending, service, and investments.

This highly visible position is based at 171 17th Street, NW in Atlanta, GA. The Wells Fargo job profile is Senior Lead Community Impact & Sustainability Specialist.

In this role, you will:

• Develop innovative market strategies for community relations programs and philanthropic initiatives

• Design stakeholder plans to elevate reputation across priority audiences and key constituencies

• Manage grant portfolios and track outcomes, KPIs, and investment performance at market level

• Lead employee volunteer programs to scale community engagement and participation rates

• Partner with communications to drive earned media and proactive reputation outcomes

• Execute with nonprofits and civic groups to advance funding strategies and measurable impact

• Ensure compliance with regulatory, risk, and governance standards across programs

• Scale best practices across markets to improve portfolio performance and consistency

• Drive market activations and storytelling aligned to enterprise strategy and impact goals

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Community Impact & Sustainability experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience developing community investment strategies across the Atlanta market

• Experience managing grant portfolios and measuring impact using defined KPIs

• Experience advancing housing, small business, or financial inclusion initiatives

• Experience partnering with nonprofits and public-private coalitions at scale

• Experience managing budgets and evaluating investment performance outcomes

• Experience engaging government and civic leaders across complex regions

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time

Office Location:

• 171 17th Street, NW - Atlanta, GA

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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