Community Relations Officer at Anglo American

Job Description:

As a Community Relations Officer you will focus on effective relationships with assigned communities to ensure the social licence to operate and ensure good relations with employees and communities. Below are some of the key responsibilities critical to the role.

Key responsibilities of this role are:

• Day to day interface with predefined villages and community relations related to the operation

• Report on commitment fulfilment and/or progress to management and stakeholders as required

• Provide input into the stakeholder engagement plan with stakeholder mapping

• Implement the annual stakeholder engagement plan and ensure internal stakeholders are trained on the plan and relevant engagement techniques

• Track and monitor engagement and update plans as required

• Ensure all relevant systems are updated

• Stakeholder mapping integration with local, regional and nations stakeholder engagement objectives

• Social risk and social incident management

• Communicate effectively with community and stakeholders

Qualifications:

You will need the following:

• NQF level 7 Degree - professional qualification related to Community Engagement/ Social performance 

Experience

• 3 years’ experience in social performance/ community relations experience

• Experience in a similar role

• Trained in community engagement approaches and systems

Additional Requirements:

• Fluent in English and the region’s/ local language (Sepedi)

• Computer literacy

• Valid driving license code 08

Additional information:

Since safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines have become widely available this year, we have strongly encouraged employees to get vaccinated at the earliest possible opportunity. However, as vaccines have been proven to be a very effective and safe way of protecting people and reducing Covid-19 transmission, we have now announced our intent to introduce a policy that requires Covid-19 vaccination for access to all sites and offices. This policy would apply to all new joiners to the company as well as existing employees and contractors.

We are in the process of undertaking a comprehensive engagement process with all our stakeholders about our intent. This is so we can tailor our approach in each country, including ensuring what we do is lawful. Once this is complete, we will look to implement the policy. There may be differences in how and when it is implemented due to local context and legal requirements.