Senior Community Relations Executive

Reporting to: Public Affairs & Community Manager
- Department: Corporate Affairs
- Job Location: Antofagasta Region, Chile
- Travel Required: Often to sites in Chile

**Company Overview**:
A world free of fossil fuels. If you share our vision, then join us on our mission.
This is your opportunity to make a real difference in averting the climate crisis, in an organisation that is at the forefront of the global transition to renewable energy.
Mainstream Renewable Power is a recognised global leader in renewable energy; and the pride we all get from developing, constructing and operating our projects is one reason why we are officially recognised as a Great Place to Work.
Now we are looking for people who can power our progress to a new level. If you want to make a real difference in the world, working with our extraordinary team across six continents, check out our newly created role.
**Summary of Role**:
The Senior Community Relations Executive is a professional preferably from the environmental and social sciences. He/she will have at least 8 years of laboral experience with recently experience on communities’ issues to extractive or energy industry in Chile. Knowledge in environmental law and experience with indigenous communities is a must.
He/she will collaborate with the corporate affairs and project´s team to socio-politically enable the project in the territory during the development, construction and operation phase, ensuring all Mainstream values are present.
- Social Risk and Impact: Identify risks and social impacts, define and implement management measures.
- Community Relations: Develop relationships of trust with social organizations, indigenous communities, local authority and stakeholders relevant to the project, ensuring the adequacy of participation methodologies to each socio-economic and political context.
- Community Investment: Identify and implement community investment initiatives that can contribute to the reputation of the company in the territory.
- Management Control: Ensure compliance with Mainstream standards and an adequate level of registration and reportability of social performance of each projects.

**What will you do?**
**Key Responsibilities**:
OFFICE FUNCTIONS
- Identify key stakeholders and keep the stakeholder map updated for any stage of projects.
- Identify actors and socio-political scene of the territory.
- Identify and manage socio-political and reputational risks of the territory.
- Identify and generate local support networks (local institutional relationship).
- Advise the communications, environmental and projects team on socio-political issues to consider in each phase of the projects.
- Define methodologies according to the local context that allow the incorporation of the vulnerable population and encourage the consultation and participation of all key stakeholders.
- Define annually a Community Engagement Plan of the projects.
- Achieve compliance with social commitments (voluntary and associated with RCAs).
- Prepare annually budget associated with the projects and manage payments associated with community investment funds and local initiatives.
- Prepare reports on time and keep monthly updated records associated with social performance (traceability).

ON SITE FUNCTIONS
- Maintain permanent relationship with key stakeholders in the territory of the projects (more than 3 days per week).
- Implement Community Engagement Plan of the projects.
- Implement work groups with the community to keep them informed and involved in the projects.
- Generate and implement collaboration agreements with the community.
- Execute initiatives and community investment funds that contribute to the local development of the area of influence of the projects.
- Fulfil social commitments on time.
- Implement a Complaint’s Procedure in territory of the projects.
- Collaborate with communications, environmental and projects team in the preparation of communications, human environment baselines for processes of environmental evaluation, citizen participation and indigenous consultation.
- Collaborate with the environmental and projects team in their socio-political enable in the territory (definition of negotiation strategies with owners and obtaining permits).
- Represent the company in instances of local institutional relations.
- Put on value the company's contribution to local development with the key stakeholders in the territory.

**What we require?**
Educational, Knowledge and Experience Background:

- Professional in social or environmental sciences, with 8 years of labour experience, and experience of at least the last 4 year in community relations and citizen participation on processes of environmental evaluation.
- Experience working with indigenous peoples.
- Knowledge of participatory methodologies and community engagement.
- Knowledge of environmental legislation and mining or energy projects.
- Knowledge of English preferred.
- Have knowledge of regional and mu