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.
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