Community Relations Officer at Dragnet Solutions Limited

Dragnet Solutions Limited - Our client is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Community Relations Officer

Location: Lagos

Description

• Our client is currently in search of a Community Relations Officer who can provide guidance, assistance, and advice on community and labor relations activities for the company.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure cordial and peaceful relationships with the host community.
• Build awareness regarding Community Relations expectations.
• Stand in as a mediator in a crisis between the company and the community.
• Participate in Project mobilization meetings, ensuring that the right procedures are followed.
• Recommend a variety of communication methods or schemes for stakeholder engagement to align with host communities' vision, goals, and objectives.
• Verify that all Sustainable Community Development (SCD) meets the expectation of MoUs, local government, and stakeholders in the spirit of contract or regulations, benchmarking the industry and business environment.
• Identify and communicate relevant risks that need to be understood, addressed, and managed.
• Assist contractors and subcontractors to identify sitespecific contract positions
• Community Relations Orientations for new hires.
• Work with Corporate Communications and Public Affairs in the development of contents of community relations plans.
• Negotiating Freedom to Operate (FTO) between contractors and Communities.
• Attend community gatherings and other events as required and provide timely feedback reports.
• GMoU (Global memorandum of Understanding) negotiation with Communities.
• Writing minutes of meetings and Reports.
• Partaking in Preentry Meetings with field contractors.
• Carrying out regular and periodic community sensing and providing mitigants, proactively.
• Managing the community interface structure and relationships in line with extant laws.

Desired Qualification / Preferred Competencies

• The ideal candidate should have a B.Sc Degree or HND in any Social or Physical Sciences.
• Experience in Years: 10.
• Excellent communication skills, being in good physical shape and being able to work with a variety of people.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships, diffuse tension, and problems solving.
• Strong organizational skills and have effective plans in place for improvement.
• Additionally, community liaison officers should demonstrate involvement in the communities in which they wish to serve.

Application Closing Date
19th May, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online