Community Relations Manager at Anglo American

As a Community Relations Manager, some of your duties will include:

• Consistently apply Safety & Health principles in all team interactions and take personal responsibility for safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities
• Identify specific risks within working area and adhere to discipline-specific plans/system to avoid these risks
• Implement Safety & Health systems within work area
• Co-ordinate and facilitate all DMR, DWA, DOL , DEA interaction for site inspections and evaluations
• Engage with local district community stakeholders
• Leading and initiating multi-Community forums, e.g. NDA, ARC and HSRC
• Lead the process of developing and reviewing developing annual Mine Social Plans
• Assist corporate and Operational CED teams to establish Operational Unit specific component of regional Community engagement plan
• Establish and chair the Anglo Social Way committee in each Operation
• Manage all risks and impacts in the community including all the elements of the Social Way related to risks. Ensure risks are minimised / reduced / managed. Ensure community alignment to plans to manage risk
• Detailed Community mapping and engagement management with operations management / BU and Social teams
• Manages all risks and impacts related the community / ensures Anglo Social Way / Social Way compliance / Incident management
• Anglo Social Way Assessment / Anglo Social Way compliance
• Management of Social Risk
• Ensuring systems and processes are followed / integration with the ORM systems
• Manages local Government relations related to local sites.
• Track and monitor regulatory approvals for the local operations to ensure close out and communication
• Engagement with:
• DMRE:
  • Department of agriculture
  • Department of Health
  • Department of Agriculture
  • Local Government
  • Department of Education
  • Environmental Affairs
  • Department of Water and Sanitation
• Manage financial viability and health of Community Relations Department
• Manage performance of team and ensure development plans and KPI are aligned to the AAP requirements
• Support the definition of recruiting needs and hiring for the department
• Feedback:
  • Reports and Audits
  • Standards
  • Technical feedback
  • Problem solving
• Coordinating all internal oversight, governance, information requests and third-party reviews
• Reporting and AAP public disclosures
• Coordination of BU stakeholder / community communication
• Support delivery of the relevant sustainability activities on a Business Unit level
• Input into AAP Business Unit-level cross-functional integration on sustainability
• Contribute to building relationships with key stakeholders relevant to the discipline on a Business Unit level, ensuring engagements are consistent with Business Unit and Group sustainability initiatives and standards
• Oversee all stakeholder engagements
• Align with HR department to ensure candidate search is triggered and interviews are arranged
• Conduct interviews
• Provide feedback on candidates
• Implement a purpose-driven, high-performing culture that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity, supports engagement and fosters continuous improvement to work processes
• Ensure compliance of the discipline with external (legislative, regulatory, permitting) requirements
• Ensure compliance of the discipline with Anglo American compliance requirements

This role is in the Social Performance department at a Band 5 level reporting to the Corporate Affairs & Sustainable Impact Manager

Qualifications

• Degree in Economic / Social Sciences / Business Management
• Project Management qualification (advantageous)
• Public relations qualification (advantageous)
• Conflict Management qualification (advantageous)
• MBA or other financial / commercial qualification(advantageous)

Experience, Knowledge and Skills:

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in Corporate Affairs (CA) and Sustainable Impact, of which 5 years in the mining industry (multi commodity and geographic exposure an advantage)
• National, regional or municipal services industry experience
• Track record of Local and Regional partnership development
• Project management fundamentals
• New technologies and their impact on operational activities within scope of role
• Commercial / business drivers in discipline, business performance variability and underlying causes that define subsequent actions
• Basic financial metrics, cost and value management & budgeting tools
• Risk management techniques and critical controls
• Value chain management within discipline, and awareness of interdependencies across value chain steps
• Safety, health and environment, legislative, statutory, regulatory and permitting requirements