Social Performance Manager

7 months ago

Musina Limpopo, South Africa De Beers Group of Companies Full time

Company Description
- Venetia Mine is an asset in the De Beers Group portfolio with a strategic and commercial imperative to achieve the business objectives. A key imperative for the organisation remains the safe, sustainable and efficient delivery of its major capital investment in transitioning its Venetia Mine from an open pit to a modern, technologically enabled underground operation.

Social Performance is essential for achieving our strategic business objectives while ensuring the De Beers Group avoids harm

and creates an environment in which communities impacted by our operations can prosper sustainably, to his end, Venetia Mine adopted the Anglo American Social Way Management system.

Venetia Mine is in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Currently, we are mining in an open-pit operation. Open-pit mining is will come to end at the end of 2022 and preparations are already under way to convert to underground mining, which is expected to extend the life of the mine to 2046.

**Job Description**:

- The purpose of this role is to ensure consistent and proactive social performance at Venetia Mine.

Social Performance encompasses how the operation interacts and engages with local stakeholders in its host communities. It includes how the mine minimises and manages any negative impacts that its operations might have on communities and also how it works with stakeholders to ensure that the positive benefits of its presence are maximised.

Social Performance is how Venetia Mine maintains its social licence to operate and as such is also a critical foundation of the Building Forever strategy, particularly the goals to help support thriving communities.

The role will primarily focus on the following key priorities:

- Coordinating the cross-functional implementation of the Social Way management system and aligning with HoDs and GM where necessary to ensure that SP perspective is integrated into all site activities
- Tracking progress of the implementation of the Social Way and providing the Senior Manager: Corporate Affairs & Sustainable Impact and the Venetia Mine General Manager with regular updates and analytical insights into required areas of improvement and emerging risk to implementation
- Managing the Social Performance Risks & Impacts team to ensure that risks to both the company and local stakeholders are proactively managed in coordination with other functions and that an accurate assessment of social performance related risks and impacts is provided to senior management.
- Managing the Stakeholder Engagement team to ensure successful engagement and consultation with local and regional stakeholders to inform and implement risk and impact management activities, including monitoring and evaluation; compliance with regulatory requirements; and the design and implementation of initiatives by the Socio-Economic Development team
- Manage relevant aspect to what is delivering on Building Forever/ sustainable mining plan.
- Assessing changes to the local internal and external context and analysing the outcomes of the stakeholder engagement and risk and impact assessment processes to continuously improve management plans and proactively address issues in order to maintain Venetia Mine’s social licence to operate
- Managing the grievance and incident management process (for incidents with social causes or social consequences) to ensure that local stakeholder concerns and incidents are addressed timeously and sensitively, effective remedy is provided where relevant and that the resultant data is used to inform measures to avoid repeat occurrences
- Ensuring that incident and commitment management processes are understood cross-functionally and correctly implemented
- Ensuring that Social Performance data is appropriately recorded in Isometrix Sentinel information management system for effective planning, action tracking, analysis and reporting.
- Oversee the management of contractors and social performance.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in social performance with extensive experience in social impact assessment and stakeholder engagement
- Experience in managing a team
- Experience of implementing the Anglo American Social Way management system is highly desirable
- Experience in managing projects/large programmes of work
- Demonstrated success in multi-disciplinary collaboration
- Proven track record of dealing with external stakeholders at local government and community level
- Extractive sector experience highly desirable
- Basic local language highly desirable but not essential
- Work outside normal hours of work and travel will be required
- Driving License

**BACKGROUND CHECKS**

**Additional Information
- Values**

**Put Safety First **- We consider all risks to people and the environment before proceeding with any activity. We address risks before beginning any activity, even if this means stopping a task. Zero Harm is alway

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