Job Description:
As our Specialist Community Liaison your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
Safety, Health, and Environment
- Consistently apply Safety & Health principles in all team interactions and take personal responsibility for the safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.
- Act as a role model and reinforce a workplace culture where safety and health for the site is paramount.
- Provide an environment for on-site teams to challenge and act on unsafe behaviours without repercussions.
- Identify PUEs and monitor critical control performance within teams.
- Embed critical controls into the daily work practices of teams.
- Engage in physical safety checks, interventions and coaching.
- Create safety reports and manage analysis of KPIs based on available data.
- Report deficiencies and implement plans to address shortcomings.
- Facilitate continual safety audits to check that all safety requirements are being met.
- Support site visits by internal and external visitors to ensure adherence to site safety systems (including induction).
Performance and Delivery
Community Engagement & Planning:
- Implement integrated community engagement strategies aligned with the mine’s Social and Labour Plan (SLP), Mining Charter, and ESG commitments.
- Conduct community needs assessments and socio-economic baselines to inform project planning and stakeholder engagement.
- Design and manage stakeholder engagement frameworks that ensure inclusive participation and long-term relationship building.
- Align community engagement initiatives with the mine’s sustainability and transformation objectives.
Stakeholder Relationship Management:
- Build and maintain trust-based relationships with traditional leaders, community forums, NGOs, local government, and other key stakeholders.
- Serve as the primary liaison between the mine and host communities, ensuring two-way communication and transparency.
- Facilitate regular community meetings, feedback sessions, and grievance resolution forums.
- Represent the company in multi-stakeholder platforms and public forums.
Social Performance & Compliance
- Monitor and report on the implementation of SLP, LED, and CSI projects in line with DMRE and company requirements.
- Ensure compliance with the MPRDA, BBBEE Act, and other relevant legislation.
- Coordinate Social Impact Assessments (SIAs) and contribute to Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) from a community perspective.
- Track and report on social risks, community grievances, and mitigation measures.
Project Management & Delivery:
- Lead the planning, execution, and monitoring of community development and infrastructure projects.
- Manage budgets, timelines, and stakeholder expectations for community-related initiatives.
- Collaborate with procurement to ensure local supplier development and community participation in economic opportunities.
- Support enterprise and skills development initiatives that promote local employment and entrepreneurship.
Conflict Resolution & Risk Mitigation:
- Identify and address potential sources of conflict between the mine and communities.
- Mediate disputes and facilitate dialogue to maintain social cohesion and operational continuity.
- Develop early warning systems and community risk registers to manage tensions proactively.
Capacity Building & Empowerment:
- Facilitate training and awareness programmes for both internal teams and community stakeholders on engagement protocols, rights, and responsibilities.
- Support the formation and strengthening of community structures (e.g., project steering committees, youth forums).
- Promote participatory development approaches that empower communities to co-design and coimplement projects.
Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting:
- Develop KPIs and impact indicators for community engagement and development programmes.
- Prepare detailed reports for internal and external stakeholders, including DMRE, local municipalities, and community forums.
- Use data and feedback to improve engagement strategies and project outcomes continuously.
Internal Collaboration & Advisory:
- Advise senior leadership on community dynamics, risks, and opportunities.
- Collaborate with departments such as Corporate Affairs, Sustainability, HR, and Legal to ensure integrated community strategies.
- Contribute to internal policy development and strategic planning processes.
People & Teams:
- Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture.
- Set clear expectations and encourage continuous improvement.
- Align team behaviours with Anglo American values.
- Support team development through coaching and recognition.
Compliance:
- Investigate non-compliance issues and resolve incidents.
- Share insights to prevent recurrence and improve systems.
This role is in the Corporate Affairs (CA) department on a band 6.12 level reporting to the Manager Corporate Affairs.
Qualifications:
- Relevant Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science, or Development Studies, Public Administration or Social Impact Management on NQF7
- SA Drivers Licence
Technical Knowledge
- 6-8 years of community engagement experience in a corporate setting, with a solid understanding of participatory development, social mobilisation, stakeholder mapping, and engagement frameworks.
- Skilled in applying Social and Environmental Impact Assessments (SIA and EIA) within community contexts.
- Familiar with relevant legislative frameworks, including the Mining Charter, MPRDA, BBBEE Act, and SLP requirements.
- Knowledgeable about local government structures, IDPs, CSR strategies, ESG standards, and measuring social impact and ROI.
- Understand socio-economic dynamics, cultural norms, traditional leadership, conflict drivers, and community risks.
- Knowledge of integrating community engagement with business strategy, change management, organisational behaviour, and cross-functional collaboration.
Closing Date:
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Job Description:
As our Section Manager Projects of your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
- Implement plans and systems to avoid specific risks within the working area, review and assess the impact of critical risks, monitor critical control performance within teams, and embed critical controls into teams' daily work practices.
- Ensure safety by managing systems, assessing capabilities, conducting safety checks, creating reports, analysing KPIs, reporting deficiencies and facilitating safety audits.
Performance and Delivery
- Project Planning: Create a comprehensive project plan that includes objectives, scope, timelines, resource allocation, budgeting, and risk assessment.
- Stakeholder Management: Identify and engage with project stakeholders, including clients, team members, sponsors, and other relevant parties, to ensure their needs and expectations are met.
- Scope Management: Define and control the project's scope, ensuring it stays within the defined boundaries and any changes are appropriately documented and approved.
- Schedule Management: Develop and maintain project schedules, monitor progress, and adjust timelines to meet project milestones and deadlines.
- Resource Management: Allocate and manage project resources, including human resources, materials, and equipment, to ensure efficient execution.
- Budget Management: Estimate project costs, create budgets, track expenditures, and manage financial aspects to stay within budgetary constraints.
- Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks to minimise their impact on the project's success.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards and conform to project requirements.
- Communication: Establish effective communication channels among project team members and stakeholders, providing regular updates and addressing issues or concerns promptly
- Issue Resolution: Identify and resolve project issues and conflicts hindering progress or impacting project outcomes.
- Change Management: Manage and document changes to project scope, schedule, or other aspects and ensure proper change control processes are followed.
- Documentation: Maintain accurate project documentation, including plans, reports, meeting minutes, and project records
- Monitoring and Reporting: Continuously monitor project performance against key performance indicators (KPIs) and report regularly to stakeholders.
- Closure: Oversee the successful completion and closure of the project, including finalising all documentation, conducting post-project reviews, and ensuring a smooth transition to operational status, if applicable
- Customer Satisfaction: Ensure that the client or end-users are satisfied with the project's outcomes and that their requirements have been met.
- Compliance: Ensure that the project adheres to relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards
- Team Leadership: Lead and motivate the project team, fostering collaboration and managing team dynamics.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify lessons learned from the project and use them to improve processes and future projects.
Sustainability and Social:
- Implement and coordinate sustainability activities, manage environmental and social requirements, identify risks and opportunities, and participate in stakeholder engagements to improve sustainability performance over time within own team.
People and Teams:
- Lead and support the development of a purpose-led, high-performing culture within the team by implementing effective team processes, setting clear and consistent expectations, and reinforcing desired culture and values.
- Establish efficient management processes that allocate resources properly, define role authority and accountability structures, and hold individuals accountable for their performance and responsibilities.
- Develop team members by ensuring their knowledge and skills are sufficient, identifying and addressing gaps through coaching, managing the talent pipeline, recruiting proactively, and providing performance insights.
Compliance:
- Manage and monitor teams' compliance with external and internal regulations, conduct site inspections, participate in audits, investigate incidents, and share learnings.
This role is in Engineering & Maintenance (E&M) department on a band 6 (D4/D5) level reporting to the Manager Engineering & Maintenance Plant
Qualifications:
- Grade 12
- Relevant Bachelor's or BTech degree in Engineering on NQF level 7
- GCC for mines & works
- Registered with ECSA as a mechanical professional Engineer
- SA Drivers Licence
Advantageous
- Project Management Professional (PMP): Certification by the Project Management Institute (PMI), or
- Prince2: Project Management certification, or
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), or
- Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), or
- South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) accreditation level 5
Technical Knowledge
- Minimum of six years working experience in a mining industry
- Operational project management knowledge gained through 6-8 years of experience in contractor safety management, including 3 years in a supervisory or managerial capacity.
- Relevant Mining / Process / Engineering/ knowledge, including developing, implementing, managing, and auditing safety and risk control initiatives and programs in a mining environment.
- Knowledge of the Mine Health and Safety Act (Act 29 of 1996) and other related legislation.
- Advanced knowledge of Project Management.
- Computer Literacy: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Demonstrate proficiency in investigating and authoring reports.
- Understand Integrated Risk Management
Closing Date:
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