Senior Community Relations Officer

Job Identification: 233093

Posting Date: 2025-02-11

Apply Before: 2025-02-25

Job Schedule: Full time

Location: Kahama, Shinyanga, P.O. Box 891, Tanzania

Job Description

Bulyanhulu Gold Mine is seeking to recruit a Senior Community Relations Officer to join and grow our team. Reporting to the Community superintendent. This is a permanent position.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee initiation and the implementation of CDC projects and coordinate the handover process.
• Supervise the implementation of Alternative Livelihood programs.
• Develop, maintain, and update the Local Employment Plan according to Barrick CR Standard.
• Supervise projects, grievance and engagement related to mine operations as per Barrick’s policies and procedures.
• Coordinating internal and external grievance mechanism awareness
• Develop, maintain, and update the Stakeholder Engagement Plan
• Identify business-related community issues, determine, and evaluate alternative courses of action to resolve or mitigate such issues and problems.
• Coordinate activities such as community engagement, mediation, and consensus problem-solving; facilitate neighbour-to-neighbour or one-to-one communications/interactions.
• Develop, maintain, and improve any vital business relationships with stakeholders for success of the community projects
• Establish and manage relations with independent contractors, vendors to ensure quality service delivery.
• Supervise payment for community projects including review of the document submitted to BGML for service providers payments.
• Develop and implement community project monitoring tools and review as appropriate to meet the projects requirements.
• Evaluate project report and recommend to identified issues and opportunities to improve performance going forward.
• Ensure proper handover of all completed community projects.
• Ensure SML inspection conducted on weekly basis to control illegal mining within the company property

Qualification Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in social Economic studies/Community Relations Projects Management or a related field.
• Valid Tanzanian driving license and the ability to drive manual vehicles (Mandatory).

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 to 10 years’ experience in Community development Projects management role in a mining or related environment
• Must have 2-5 years of driving experience with no accident records (Manual Vehicle Driving) and be willing to undergo a driving test to demonstrate your skills.

Skills / Knowledge Requirements:

• Excellent communication in English, both writing and verbal
• Knowledge of grievances or conflict resolution would be an added advantage.
• Computer literacy, including basic knowledge of MS Office applications such as Outlook, Excel, and Word.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Time management.
• Documentation and document management.
• Facilitation and presentation skills
• Management of construction and Social Economic Projects
• Reporting and Report Writing.

What We Can Offer You:

• A comprehensive compensation package including bonuses and site-specific benefits.
• The ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Opportunities to grow and learn with industry colleagues.
• Access to a variety of career opportunities across the organization

We are committed to a safe work environment sending every person home safe and healthy every day and leaving a sustainable legacy on our host communities.