SHIRA Specialist at De Beers Group

Job Description
As a SHIRA Specialist your responsibilities will include:

Safety & Health

• Take personal responsibility for safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities
• 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

Performance & Delivery

• Operational planning
• Develop detailed response plan for priority unwanted events

Work management

• Develop detailed response plan for priority unwanted events
• Conduct proactive base line survey with communities to identify cultural heritage sites
• Receive input from cultural heritage register provided by SAHRA
• Draft 'Chance Find Procedure'
• Supervise construction work at cultural heritage sites
• Create Cultural Heritage Management Plan
• Implement control mechanisms as specified in the Cultural Heritage Management Plan
• Get approval from SAHRA if required
• Advise on how to react in case of cultural heritage issues

Feedback

• Monitor management measures to social risks
• Advise on risk issues to operational head of the function
• Identify key social and economic impacts and issues

Sustainability & social

• Drive delivery the sustainability activities as relevant to discipline and set out in the Life of Asset Plan to improve sustainability performance over time
• Put in place sufficient physical and financial resources and coordinate delivery of Sustainable Mining Plan commitments relevant to discipline

People & Teams

• Support the development of, and ultimately implement, a purpose-led, high-performing culture within the teams that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity
• Implement management processes for employee & contractor management within work area
• Develop team members

Compliance

• Ensure compliance of the discipline with external (legislative, regulatory, permitting) requirements
• Ensure compliance of the discipline with Anglo American compliance requirements
• Manage appeals to social incident procedure
• Develop appropriate commitment policy

This role is in the Corporate Affairs & Sustainable Impact department at a Band 6 level reporting to the Corporate Affairs & Sustainable Impact Manager

Qualifications

• Post graduate qualification in Social Sciences Degree or equivalent qualifications
• Qualification in Integrated Social Impact Assessments
• Training / qualification in Gender and Development studies
• Rural Participatory Facilitation
• Communication and/or public relations
• Business / Project Management qualifications (advantageous)

Experience and knowledge required:

• Minimum of 6 years Development Management experience of which at least two should be in a Mining environment
• Project management fundamentals
• Business improvement tools and techniques
• Basic financial metrics, cost and value management & budgeting tools
• Systems maintenance
• Compliance: Safety, health and environment, legislative, statutory, regulatory and permitting requirements

Closing Date:

12 May, 2023