Role Overview

The Community Programs Specialist plays a meaningful role in advancing our community impact through thoughtful execution, strong partnerships, and clear insights. This role supports the strategy and delivery of corporate giving sponsorships—ensuring alignment with business priorities, nonprofit eligibility, and measurable impact in the communities we serve. With a balance of analytical rigor and collaborative energy, the Senior Analyst helps bring our community investments to life through project and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure corporate giving sponsorships deliver value by reviewing nonprofit eligibility, confirming alignment with business priorities, and identifying opportunities for branding and employee engagement.
• Own real‑time sponsorship data, delivering accurate tracking, analysis, and insights that reflect investments across local communities.
• Create and share clear, consistent reporting that highlights outcomes, trends, and opportunities to strengthen community impact.
• Activate sponsorship benefits by leading execution or partnering closely with internal stakeholders to deliver agreed‑upon elements such as branding, agreements, and employee participation.
• Collaborate with communications and marketing partners to elevate community storytelling through data highlights and impact narratives, both internally and externally.
• Support operational excellence by managing the centralized corporate giving inbox and maintaining related documentation, policies, and compliance materials.
• Contribute to forward‑looking reporting and modeling to show current status and future projections.
• Provide flexible project and operational support to the Community Programs team, contributing to both short‑ and long‑term goals.
• Actively participate in team meetings, sharing insights, ideas, and a collaborative mindset that strengthens the team’s collective impact.

Ideal candidates will offer

• Minimum 3 years of relevant professional experience in an analytical, operations, or program support role.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and project management tools, including the use of formulas and calculations to manage, analyze, and report data.
• Experience using data to inform decisions and communicate insights clearly to a variety of internal and external audiences.
• Familiarity with corporate giving platforms such as Benevity (strongly preferred).
• Technical proficiency in identifying and using AI tools or platforms to enhance operations, automate workflows, and support data‑driven decision‑making.
• Strong attention to detail with exceptional follow‑through in a fast‑paced, matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities independently, with excellent time management and sound judgment.
• A positive, proactive mindset with a willingness to learn, collaborate, and contribute beyond individual responsibilities to support shared team goals.
• Ability to work from a Cigna Group office 3 days a week, as directed by the business. Those office options would be either St. Louis or Bloomfield, CT.
• Ability to travel occasionally, as needed, to corporate, team and community events.

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About The Cigna Group:

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: See Yourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email See Yourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.