Employee Engagement Specialist at Anglo American

Job Description:

The Employee Engagement Specialist will be responsible to deliver agreed communication and engagement plans, campaigns, and initiatives to support Platinum’s Corporate Affairs and Sustainable Impact programmes, as well as deliver high-quality targeted content to increase awareness and understanding of our Purpose, our Strategy, Burning Ambition and Platinum performance.

Key responsibilities: 

• 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

• Contribute to the development and delivering of strategic internal communication plans that support Platinum’s employee engagement objectives

• Develop and deliver agreed communication and engagement campaigns and initiatives across Platinum to support CR&SI programmes such as Sustainable Mining Plan, Social Way and Ambassadors for Good. This involves detailed stakeholder mapping, identifying and clarifying required outcomes, the development of compelling messaging, collateral, and measuring techniques

• Develop and deliver high quality targeted content including news stories, features, interviews – to increase awareness and understanding of our Purpose, our Strategy, Burning Ambition and Platinum performance

• Campaign management and Projects

• Lead the Ambassadors for Good communication and engagement programme in Platinum in support of Group Corporate Relations

• Utilize Eureka!, the Engage app and other channels to support the delivery of Platinum-wide initiatives and ensure that all content for such projects is up to date; writing and publishing new content; facilitating knowledge sharing and collaboration

• Promote an organisational culture of clear and effective communication, including among the leadership cohort.

• Build relationships with Functional communication representatives, aligning activity where appropriate

• Ensure compliance of the discipline with Anglo American compliance requirements

• Identify gaps in policy & system design, implementation or execution that are negatively impacting on your team or their performance and initiate action to address these issues, considering the impact on suppliers and customers. For policies & systems within your authority, make the required changes. For others, escalate these issues to seek action and / or look for alternative solutions

This position is in the Corporate Affairs department at a Band 6 level reporting into the Employee Engagement Manager.

Qualifications:

• Communications or Journalism Degree, or another relevant qualification

Experience required: 

• At least three to five years’ communications work experience

• Previous experience in supporting internal and change communications in a large, diverse organisation Work experience in the mining industry added advantage

• Additional South African languages an advantage

• Proven Project Management ability

• Understand communications issues and their impact on employee engagement, strategic positioning, brand, and marketing

• Delivering the creation, implementation and embedding of a project ensuring adoption and sustainability

• Driving consistent communication messages across the business, ensuing alignment and approvals are in place

• Monitoring and improving operational processes

Additional information:

Who we are

We aim to lead the industry by pursuing ever safer and more responsible ways of working, demonstrating integrity and showing care and respect for people and the planet. That means we are constantly seeking new opportunities to mine and process our products sustainably, using less water, less energy and more precise extraction technologies.  As the custodians of coal and other precious natural resources – diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore and nickel – our extraordinary teams work safely and collaboratively, with the utmost consideration for local communities, our customers and the world at large.