Senior Advisor, Social Performance

**Requisition ID**:83483

**Job Category**:Environmental

**Location**:Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 65 years of business and technical expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure, our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries tirelessly work toward bettering the industries in which we operate. With practical solutions that are safe, innovative and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally. Are you looking for an opportunity to join a diverse group of professionals who are committed to remaining exceptional? We look forward to hearing from you.

Our Environmental Services Group (ESG) provides our clients with expertise in climate change, environmental assessment & management, noise & vibration, social impact management, sustainable development design, and water resources. With your help, we can build extraordinary things that co-exist, and benefit local communities and habitats.

A successful project needs to do more than deliver on its intended purpose. It needs to address the needs of its residents and provide real, tangible benefits for the surrounding community. It must wholeheartedly embrace the mantra of leaving it better than we found it, ensuring a brighter future for the lives it affects.

Inclusion and collaboration with local communities is the key to successful project delivery. In a practice that is growing, you will be part of Hatch’s global Community Engagement and Social Performance Practice (CESP) that collaborates with clients, communities, stakeholders, and Hatch’s engineering teams to create mutually beneficial and sustainable metals, energy, and infrastructure projects. The opportunity is unique: Hatch’s wealth of technical engineering experience combined with community insights creates an inclusive vision for clients’ projects - and we are helping to make this a reality.

Hatch is currently seeking to recruit a Senior Advisor, Social Performance role to be an integral part of a growing global practice. Reporting to the Director, Community Engagement and Social Performance - Africa, Europe, and Middle East (AEM), you will be responsible for establishing the CESP practice in Africa in collaboration with other business units and the reporting Director. As the technical CESP expert you will deliver projects and coordinate the involvement of other consultants across Africa with opportunities on metals, energy, and infrastructure projects.

In this role, you will:

- Provide CESP technical expertise and supervise multi-disciplinary project teams throughout the life cycle of client projects.
- Undertake CESP project management tasks on behalf of clients.
- Deliver CESP services with a focus on stakeholder engagement and community engagement planning and management which could include impact assessment and management, agreement making, community engagement and consultation, human rights, local employment and procurement, commitments for broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE)
- Record, research, identify and anticipate any social risks to project development, including solutions to meet these challenges
- Assist clients as they deliver upon their socioeconomic commitments and develop plans to meet industry best practice
- Develop proposals and bids and support the implementation of a CESP pursuits in Africa
- Assist clients through consultation required for environmental assessments in collaboration with our Environmental Services Group (ESG)
- Identify client opportunities with project managers across the Hatch organization and externally
- Share your experiences with colleagues and clients at speaking events, networking events, conferences, webinars and through online blog posts

**Skills and Qualifications**:

- Degree qualified in anthropology, social sciences, public policy, communications, sustainability or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 6+ years’ in social performance experience across the project lifecycle on major projects ideally in complex cultural and socio-political environments
- Expertise in CESP technical planning, program design and execution
- Hatch seeks to build complementary skills across the team demonstrating comprehensive CESP practical and advisory experience. Applicants will need to demonstrate their practical experience in the following areas.
- Socioeconomic assessments and reporting
- Community development and social investment
- Community and stakeholder mapping and engagement and conflict resolution
- Monitoring and evaluation and social value metrics and reporting
- Program and project management
- Country exposure in Africa is highly regarded
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Creative and approachable with a willingness to recommend innovative solutions to clients
- Willingness for both domestic and international travel as work requires
- Effective, open communic