Community Relations Officer - Newmont

Responsible for the frontline management of community issues and supports day-to-day proactive engagements in order to promote good community relationship and social acceptance in accordance with Newmont Stakeholder Management Standard.

Community Relations and Stakeholder Engagements

• Assemble, familiarize and implement Newmont Policies, programs and management systems related to Stakeholder Engagement in Ahafo.
• Support the development and implementation of engagement strategies to enhance and maintain good relationships with Communities, local government and local NGOs to ensure maximum participation and cooperation in NGGL programs.
• Carry out informal stakeholder expectation analysis and perceptions to inform management about threat and opportunities in the mine communities; and recommend appropriate engagement strategies to manage the situation.
• Gather community intelligence that can threaten smooth operations of the mine and report to S&ER management.
• Support the development and continuous update of stakeholders register for purposes of engagement.
• Provides input for the development of stakeholder mapping that identifies differing stakeholders and their corresponding interests to guide effective stakeholder engagement..

Ahafo Social Responsibility Agreements Implementation

• Assist in the implementation of Newmont Ahafo commitments in the Local Employment, Relationship and Foundation Agreements.
• Provide awareness to Communities about the content of the Ahafo Social Responsibility Agreement related to Local Employment and Company/Community Relationships.

Auditing and Reporting

• Ensure proper records keeping in Cintellate of all stakeholder engagements for easy retrieval.
• Participate in all external social audit related to Community and Stakeholder engagement in the mine communities.

Safety

• Report all incidents and accidents in the work group to enable management to identify areas for improvement in work practices.

• First Degree in Social Science or related field
• Good understanding of local culture and practices
•  Conflict Resolutions Skills
• Minimum of 3 years’ community relation experience working in the mining or related industrial operations environments.
• Good interpersonal skills (interacting with diverse functional and cultural backgrounds)
• Strong communication (written and verbal) skills
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Strong reporting skills.
• Strong planning, prioritizing and coordination skills.
• Strong consultation skills
• Very strong ability to translate technical language into local dialect
• Ability to explain technical issues to lay persons
• Strong interpersonal skills to deal with people from various backgrounds: ethnic, cultural, and education.
• Strong dissipation of knowledge of local community customs and tradition.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

There is a potential risk to health and personal abuse in the course of duty.

• However, working environment of incumbent is safe. Unsafe conditions have been identified and measures have been put in place either to eliminate or mitigate unsafe working conditions
• Besides planned work, daily activities are determined by emerging business needs and priorities as dictated by Management. This situation leads to performing different tasks at the same time.