Overview

Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.

Job Position: Community Relations Manager, East

Job Location: Mfamosing, Cross River

Job Description

  • The role involves developing and implementing a community relations and public affairs plan to promote the organization’s work and support its lobbying and campaigning objectives.
  • It also includes providing high-quality public relations services to raise the organization’s profile, promote its goals and activities, and build and maintain relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to foster a positive reputation.

Job Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing:

  • Ensure compliance of terms of Memoranda of Understanding, Community Development Agreements and other legal documents that guide the relationship between LAP and its communities.
  • Organize,implement and document monthly community events and other stakeholder engagement platforms.
  • Ensure prompt and effective dissemination of information through approved channels of communication: correspondences, newsletters etc
  • Facilitate and ensure the implementation of community development CSR programs as approved on an annual basis while ensuring the monthly and yearly reporting of same across required LH platforms.
  • Coordinate with Communications & Public Affairs Manager various sustainability programs as required.
  • Design calendar of events targeted at the Community yearly while ensuring compliance to all timeframe for various community events.
  • Work with location volunteering champions for the effective implementation of annual volunteering programs across locations
  • Community Relations Executive would from time to time also be the mouthpiece for an organization should there be need for a community briefing as approved by all relevant internal stakeholders
  • To assist the Communications & Public Affairs Manager and other organisational representatives to pursue lobbying, policy and campaigning work and objectives with Host Communities.
  • Ensure accountability and transparency in all related transactions
  • To draft policy briefings and consultation responses for internal and external use.
  • Monitor and conduct intelligence activities on community activities which impact on LAP’s business
  • To participate in staff training, organisation/team meetings and events, as required.
  • To comply with the organisation’s health and safety, confidentiality, data protection and other policies.
  • To promote equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practices.
  • Develop a monthly community issues log to highlight risks, mitigations and action plans
  • Any other duties deemed appropriate by the Head of Public Affairs, subject to time and commensurate with level of responsibility and salary.
  • Develop and maintain relationship with local government and other relevant stakeholders such as traditional rulers and their councils, NGOs etc
  • Analyze and maintain comprehensive knowledge of local issues and local CSR demands such as bills, laws etc.
  • Ensure optimal level of customer satisfaction for all community requests.
  • Provide, monitor and control financial budget to all key community issues.

Who you’ll be working with:

  • Human Dimension: Reporting to Communications & Public Affairs Manager with dotted line to Plant Manager
  • Organizational Dimension: Ability to engage, monitor, network and resolve conflicts at community level and provide advice to as directed by the Communications & Public Affairs Manager and Plant Manager

Job Dimesions
Key Interfaces, Stakeholders and Relationships:

  • Communications, Public Affairs & Sustainable Development Director
  • Head, Corporate Brand & Sustainable Development
  • Head Public Affairs
  • Head, Corporate Communications
  • Communications & Public Affairs Manager
  • Senior management team
  • Politicians, parliamentarians and government officials
  • The public and private sector

Job Requirements
Level of education/qualifications normally required:

  • Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience that demonstrates ability.
  • Experience of working in a senior PR or public affairs role.
  • A proven track record of achievement in the field of PR or public affairs.

Technical / Functional Skills:

  • Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to lead, motivate and manage staff.
  • Ability to produce high quality written reports on information and publishing for internal management purposes and for trustees.
  • Good IT skills and computer literacy.
  • Flexible approach to work and highly organised working practices.
  • Ability to work as part of a team.
  • Ability to plan, execute and evaluate social media campaigns.

Behavioral competence:

  • A commitment to developing good relationships
  • High level of integrity
  • An understanding of the value of good information and support services.
  • A commitment to equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practices.

How to Apply
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