Cluster Coordinator

Heading is looking for his client in oil and gas industry, a Cluster Coordinator (M/F) for Cabo delgado

Main Responsabilities:

• 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
• Analysing 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.
• 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
•  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 local customs and traditions and help others to do the same.
•  Explaining the goals and aspiration of the project and discussing potential project impacts and opportunities with the community
• Idntifying and respecting the needs of different groups especially vulnerable groups and modify engagement approaches as appropriate.
• 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
• Implement and facilitate community access to and awareness of the Project’s Community
• Explain to community members how to use the grievance mechanism
• Supporting the community grievance mechanism by recording and reporting on grievances and their resolution
• Analysing grievances and resolution process to feed into project reporting
• Reporting to the line manager regarding team performance and the situation in community
• Reporting on major and minor incidents and emerging issues in the community
• Analysing and summarizing reports from different sources to present to line manager
• Assessing the risks associated with different types of reports and feedback coming from the community
• Following company policies and procedures in community engagement and all professional conduct
• Responding appropriate to critique and seeking continual improvement
• 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 decision for local communities and working with Industrial Relations to mitigate these risks.

Qualifications/Experience required

•  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