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Location: Seattle
Company: Washington Mutual
Experience: Mid-level
Highest Level of Education: Undergraduate Degree



Job Responsibilities
Engage and encourage employee participation in community projects particularily those that fulfill federally required community involvement. Train select group of employees in details of program, engage them to promote program in their areas and support management's requests for community involvement. These efforts can take 20-30 hours per week, but sometimes less. Lots of emails, phone calls, and meetings take up the rest of the 40 hours.
Job Requirements
None needed.
Uppers
Getting to support nonprofit organizations in meeting their missions with employees who volunteer for these organizations.
Downers
Bad managers who only look at return on investment and can't fathom a program that provides intangibles instead of actual dollars.
Lifestyle
Dress code is business casual. Work is in cubes. There is some diversity, about 30% of dept are people of color. Some business travel, could be 6 times a year or 1 time a year. No social events tied to work.
Compensation
Every employee is given a chance to list goals for year and then create a weight of how much each goal will bring them in bonus money. Bonuses are about 4% but, can be nothing too. It depends on how the manager rates you and that is totally up to them, not how you actually performed. My experience is that it doesn't matter too much how much you accomplish or how great you perform, if the manage likes others more, then they get the bonus and you don't.

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