Corporate Affairs & Sustainable Impact Manager at Anglo American

• As the Corporate Affairs and Sustainable Impact Manager, you will support the GM by co-ordinating engagements with regional stakeholders, alongside developing effective programmes from the Group/BU strategy that address community needs.

Job Description

Safety & Health

• Oversee consistent application of Safety & Health principles in all discipline interactions and take personal responsibility for safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities
• Develop discipline-specific plans/systems to reduce exposure to discipline-specific risks
• Monitor and ensure effectiveness of discipline Safety & Health systems
• Manage Safety & Health systems within work area

Performance & Delivery

Business expectations

• Provide stakeholder and community information as input to the development of the Life of Asset Plan and the Resource Development Plan
• Break down relevant Group and BU information on Social Performance matters to site level, translate into site-specific targets and budgets and communicate to on-site teams

Operational planning

• Provide Social Performance input into site-specific 5-year plan and lead development of 1-year site budget

Work management

• Implement Social Management Plan and ensure integration of SP elements into all site activities
• Effectively manage on-site SP work within budget and headcount, in alignment with Group/BU Corporate Relations
• Coordinate all external community and government stakeholder engagements on- and off-site. Lead engagement with communities and other regional key stakeholders
• Oversee and ensure the operation's delivery against local regulatory requirements as negotiated by Group/BU

Feedback

• Proactively identify adjustments required to operating model based on Social Performance strategy, in alignment with GM and site leadership
• Proactively identify Social Performance-specific challenges and opportunities that new technology could address
• Embed new technologies into the on-site Social Performance work once solution design is execution-ready

Sustainability & social

• Manage delivery of the sustainability activities as relevant to the discipline and set out in the Life of Asset Plan to improve sustainability performance over time
• Implement and participate in processes that build relationships with key local stakeholders

People & Teams

• Create a purpose-led, high-performing culture within the discipline that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity
• Lead effective employee & contractor management processes for the discipline
• Drive people development within discipline
• Engage in local dispute resolution with employee representative bodies as relevant to discipline, escalate as required

Compliance

• Lead compliance of the discipline with external (legislative, regulatory, permitting) local requirements as a minimum level of site performance
• Ensure compliance with Anglo American requirements within discipline on site
• Develop required compliance governance for the discipline
• Oversee investigation of incidents (safety, health, environmental and social) occurring within the discipline
• Engage in local dispute resolution with employee representative bodies as relevant to discipline, escalate as required

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

Qualifications

• Social science degree or related degree such as development planning
• Project Management qualification (advantageous)

Experience and knowledge required:

• At least 7 years of experience in Social Performance and related matters
• Experience in working with government institutions and communities
• Key value drivers across site value chain and interdependence of key levers
• Principles and elements of the Operating Model focussing on Work Management and its implications on the discipline
• Project management fundamentals
• 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

Related legislation of host country/region

• Valid driver’s licence