Partnership & Relations Manager at Presidential Climate Commission

Purpose

• Reporting to the Head of Employment Strategy, this role will support the work for a Just Transition in Mpumalanga by identifying, establishing, and building relationships with the key effected stakeholders/role players in the province. This will include the development of a stakeholder relations strategy and roadmap for the employment and economic development strategy of the Just Transition that must culminate into a social compact.

Responsibilities:

Strategy development

• Identify and evaluate the requirements for impactful stakeholder and partnership relationships across government, industry and civil society.
• Develop and manage stakeholder database of potential new stakeholders, partners and implementing agencies in a stakeholder partnership map.
• Build local coalitions of stakeholders, partners, change agents and implementing agencies that focus on the social and employment outcomes of a just transition.
• Develop and implement the stakeholder and partnership. This must culminate into a multi-stakeholder partnership which will act as a catalyst to drive economic growth and job creation.
• Develop project plans to implement, and criteria to measure the impact of, the multi-stakeholder partnerships.

Partnerships building

• Ensure alignment amongst relevant stakeholders across the eco-system and assist with lobbying activities.
• Initiate and develop relationships with community leaders, provincial and municipal government, labour organisations and business sector.
• Facilitate dialogue with key stakeholders and draft reports on outcomes.
• Respond timeously to stakeholders regarding public issues to mitigate risk of crises and ensure consistent messaging.
• Continuously assess and monitor relationships with various stakeholder group.
• Recommend and execute remedial actions to ensure alignment of relationships in accordance with strategic objectives of the PCC.
• Monitor and report on the adherence and alignment of other Just Energy Transition fora.

Campaign management

• Support and collaborate with Communications to strengthen stakeholder relations in Mpumalanga.
• Provide input as to communications strategies to increase the impact of the work of the JET Employment Strategy.

Requirements:

• Relevant Post-graduate qualification e.g. Political Science, Economics, Social Science or Communications
• At least 5 years’ experience of coordinating and driving stakeholder relations with government, labour and/or civil society.
• Successful track record of facilitating community and government engagement events
• Ability to synthesize outcomes of community engagements in meaningful reports.
• Excellent presentation, analytical and writing skills
• Outstanding networking skills
• Ideally fluent isiSwati or isiZulu speaker

Closing date: 12 March 2023