Responsibilities:

Community insight

• Understanding how community expectations, needs, interests, concerns, and levels of influence might affect project activities, this forms the basis of engagement.
• Understanding how project activities might affect community wellbeing and community dynamics.
• Analyzing community insight considering their potential impact on project development.
• Explaining community insights and potential project impacts to line manager.

Community stakeholders mapping

• Understanding and mapping various community stakeholders and their needs, interests, concerns, and levels of influence in a way that can used for project decision making.
• Using stakeholders mapping techniques in risk identification and assessment.
• Explain the results of stakeholders mapping to line managers.
• Contributing to strategic planning to engage all local stakeholders appropriately.

Information sharing

• Ensuring that information about the project is shared with the communities in an effective, appropriate, and timely manner using tools such as radio, social media forums, and community meetings.
• Managing information sharing process relating to impact assessments, negotiation of benefit sharing agreements or the process of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).
• Working with community facilitators and interest groups to ensure that all community members have sufficient access to information.
• Identify the risks and opportunities associated with the sharing of information.

Community Engagement

• Regular engagement with community stakeholders, including local civil society organizations, households, and vulnerable groups, with the aim of building the trust and respect of the community.
• Organizing engagement in respect of local customs and traditions and helping others to do the same.
• Explaining the goals and aspirations of the project and discussing potential project impacts and opportunities with the community.
• Identifying and respecting the needs of different groups especially vulnerable groups and modify engagement approaches as appropriate.

Community Consultation

• Supporting the preparation of targeted information packages for community consultation.
• Accurately recording community views and concerns to input into consultation process.
• Analyze the results of community consultation and presenting to line manager.
• Providing feedback to community members on how their views and concerns have been considered during the consultation.

Community Grievance Mechanism

• Implement and facilitate community access to and awareness of the Project’s Community Grievance Mechanism.
• Explain to community members how to use the grievance mechanism.
• Supporting the community grievance mechanism by recording and reporting on grievances and their resolution.

Reporting and Documentation

• Reporting to the line manager regarding team performance and the situation in the community.
• Reporting on major and minor incidents and emerging issues in the community.
• Analyzing and summarizing reports from different sources to present to the line manager.
• Assessing the risks associated with different types of reports and feedback coming from the community.

Implementing Standards

• Following company policies and procedures in community engagement and all professional conduct.
• Applying international standards in local contexts.
• Responding appropriately to critique and seeking continual improvement.

Industrial Relations & Local Hiring

• Contributing to hiring decisions by providing insights about skills and expertise available within communities.
• Support community members with information on project job opportunities and gathering insights on the potential training needs of the local workforce.
• Identify risks and opportunities relating to hiring decisions for local communities and working with Industrial Relations to mitigate these risks.

Community Grievance Mechanism

• Implement and facilitate community access to and awareness of the Project’s Community Grievance Mechanism.
• Explain to community members how to use the grievance mechanism.
• Supporting the community grievance mechanism by recording and reporting on grievances and their resolution.

Reporting and Documentation

• Reporting to the line manager regarding team performance and the situation in the community.
• Reporting on major and minor incidents and emerging issues in the community.
• Analyzing and summarizing reports from different sources to present to the line manager.
• Assessing the risks associated with different types of reports and feedback coming from the community.

Implementing Standards

• Following company policies and procedures in community engagement and all professional conduct.
• Applying international standards in local contexts.
• Responding appropriately to critique and seeking continual improvement.

Industrial Relations & Local Hiring

• Contributing to hiring decisions by providing insights about skills and expertise available within communities.
• Support community members with information on project job opportunities and gathering insights on the potential training needs of the local workforce.
• Identify risks and opportunities relating to hiring decisions for local communities and working with Industrial Relations to mitigate these risks.

Qualifications:

• Experience working within the industry or comparable projects in social/ community related position.
• Experience working with community development programmes or related work, preferably in the local areas.
• Experience working with civil society organizations, the most relevant being that relate to worker rights, land claims, resettlement, participatory decision making and health, society, environmental groups.
• Knowledge of local communities.
• Knowledge of the industry, company & the project.
• Knowledge of regulatory.
• Local & Foreign languages skills.
• Ability to understand cultural values.
• Interpersonal & problem – solving skills.
• Verbal communication, written communication & reporting skills.
• Information sharing skills.
• Community engagement skills.