Optimus have almost 10 year’s experience within the energy sector helping companies within a variety of industries including oil and gas, mining and wind/renewable energies. We recruit for permanent and contractor positions across Europe, Middle East, Russia, Africa and North America.
Optimus Search Limited is recruiting to fill the below position of:
Job Title: Community Relations Advisor
OilCareers Ref. No.: J978766
Location: Lagos, NIGERIA
Job Description
- Provide guidance, assistance and advice on community and labor relations activities to NPO and contractors.
- Build awareness regarding community Relations expectations.
- Review of Contractor's Community Relations plans
- Communicate Upstream Public Affairs community Relations guidelines and procedures to Project team and contractors
- Participate in NPO Project pre-mobilization and mobilization meetings, ensuring that right procedures are followed.
- Communicate community Assistance programs (CAPs) to contractors/sub contractors and Project team
- Assist contractors and sub contractors identify site specific contract positions
- Community Relations Orientations for NPO new hires
Required Skills/Experience:
- Develop community relations expectations from contractors and project team and communicate same to them.
- Follow up expectations through further communication, forum, emails, meetings etc
- Work with Public Affairs in the development of contents of community relations plans.
- Review of NPO's contractor's community relations plans.
- Ensure proper community relations procedures are documented.
- Ensure that NPO contractors comply with the approved community Relations plans
- Communicate gaps to contractor for gaps closure.
- Monitor compliance of the CR plans.
- Communicate CR guidelines and procedures to project team and contractors
- Identify gaps and ensure gaps are bridged.
- Communicate project mobilization procedures to contractors and sub contractors
- Participate in project mobilization meetings, giving guidance and advice on community relations issues.
Desired Skills/Experience:
- Work with Public Affairs to develop list of community prioritized projects for CAP and ensure contractors have list for CAPs project selection.
- Work with Public Affairs to develop strategies for CAPs implementation.
- Encourage community contact persons to develop a job bank where names and CV's of qualified personnel in different fields are stored based on, ON-THE-JOB experience.
- Ensure contractors comply with the guidelines in employment and other labor related issues.
- Ensure that contractors select qualified people to work from the communities’
- Ensure contractors know the right community contact persons
Required Qualifications:
- First degree level education.
- 8-10 years in Community Relations-related positions.
- Ability to work in harsh environments, and stressful situations, with ever changing priorities
Application Closing Date
9th August, 2013
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online