Heading is looking for his client in oil and gas industry, a Cluster Coordinator (M/F) for Cabo delgado
Main Responsabilities:
- understanding how community expectations, needs, interests, concerns, and levels of influence might affect project activities, this forms the basis of engagement.
- Understanding how project activities might affect community wellbeing and community dynamics
- Analysing community insight considering their potential impact on project development
- Explaining community insights and potential project impacts to line manager
- Community stakeholders mapping
- Understanding and mapping various community stakeholders and their needs, interests, concerns, and levels of influence in a way that can used for project decision making
- Using stakeholders mapping techniques in risk identification and assessment
- Explain the results of stakeholders mapping to line managers
- Contributing to strategic planning to engage all local stakeholders appropriately Information sharing
- Ensuring that information about the project is shared with the communities in an effective, appropriate, and timely manner using tools such as radio, social media forums and community meetings.
- Working with community facilitators and interest groups to ensure that all community members have sufficient access to information
- Identify the risks and opportunities associated with the sharing of information
- Regular engagement with community stakeholders, including local civil society organizations, households, and vulnerable groups, with the aim of building the trust and respect of the community
- Organizing engagement in respect local customs and traditions and help others to do the same.
- Explaining the goals and aspiration of the project and discussing potential project impacts and opportunities with the community
- Idntifying and respecting the needs of different groups especially vulnerable groups and modify engagement approaches as appropriate.
- Supporting the preparation of targeted information packages for community consultation
- Accurately recording community views and concerns to input into consultation process
- Analyze the results of community consultation and presenting to line manager
- Providing feedback to community members on how their views and concerns have been considered during the consultation
- Implement and facilitate community access to and awareness of the Project’s Community
- Explain to community members how to use the grievance mechanism
- Supporting the community grievance mechanism by recording and reporting on grievances and their resolution
- Analysing grievances and resolution process to feed into project reporting
- Reporting to the line manager regarding team performance and the situation in community
- Reporting on major and minor incidents and emerging issues in the community
- Analysing and summarizing reports from different sources to present to line manager
- Assessing the risks associated with different types of reports and feedback coming from the community
- Following company policies and procedures in community engagement and all professional conduct
- Responding appropriate to critique and seeking continual improvement
- Contributing to hiring decisions by providing insights about skills and expertise available within communities
- Support community members with information on project job opportunities and gathering insights on the potential training needs of the local workforce
- Identify risks and opportunities relating to hiring decision for local communities and working with Industrial Relations to mitigate these risks.
Qualifications/Experience required
- Experience working within the industry or comparable projects in social/ community related position
- Experience working with community development programmes or related work, preferably in the local areas
- Experience working with civil society organizations, the most relevant being that relate to worker rights, land claims,resettlement, participatory decision making and health, society, environmental groups.
- Knowledge of local communities
- Knowledge of the industry, company & the project
- Knowledge of regulatory
- Local & Foreign languages skills
- Ability to understand cultural values
- Interpersonal & problem – solving skills
- Verbal communication, written communication & reporting skills
- Information sharing skills
- Community engagement skills
