Location: Reston, VA
Date Posted: 10/11/2025
About the job
Job Description
Advancing DPR’s Mission 2030: to be one of the most admired companies. Leading our Community Initiatives team and working closely with The DPR Foundation. Responsibility for implementing and scaling DPR’s community initiatives and philanthropy strategies. Ensuring alignment with business objectives and community investment philosophy. Leading a high-performing team managing collaboration across geographies and workgroups to drive impact at local, national, and global levels.
The Community Initiatives Leader will work closely with the Global Social Responsibility (GSR) leader and leaders of the other GSR pillars: People, Partners, and Planet. (Reference DPR’s website for more information about GSR.)
Key Responsibilities
Executive Strategy, Vision, and Enterprise Leadership
Refine and execute the long-term corporate philanthropy vision.
Serve as a director on the DPR Foundation board, a 501(c)3 philanthropy. Work with the board to scale the DPR Foundation impact.
Serve as a strategic advisor to the GSR team and Leadership Team.
Champion equity-centered giving and inclusive community partnerships.
Lead cross-functional collaboration with Corporate Service Groups, Regions, and Business Units to integrate community initiatives.
Identify and implement plans for strategic partnerships with our non-profit partners.
Represent the company externally with non-profit partners and industry coalitions.
Explore opportunities for volunteer incentives: employee matching, dollars for doers, etc.
Explore best practices to scale the team.
Enhance the overall communication strategy.
Develop company-wide guidelines for philanthropy giving and fundraising.
Program Oversight and Innovation
Additional Qualifications
Anticipated Starting Pay Range
$152,000.00 – $220,000.00
Health, Wellness, and Company Overview
Nothing is more important than your health and wellness. DPR offers a variety of medical, dental, vision and wellness benefits to keep you healthy. Read more about eligibility and available benefits programs for skilled craft and labor or experienced professionals and recent graduates.
DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.
Working at DPR, you’ll have the chance to try new things, explore unique paths and shape your future. Here, we build opportunity together—by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Fast Company and Newsweek.
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