Shape Your World
At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.
This is your opportunity to help share the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies. Become a valued part of the team that’s shaping the future of aluminium, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves and flies. Be part of it and shape your world.
The Community Relations and Social Performance Advisor is a critical role supporting the Wagerup Alumina Refinery to embed a social performance culture and assist in managing community relations to ensure Alcoa’s social license to operate is maintained.
The role is responsible for building and maintaining positive relationships with the local community, delivering high quality stakeholder engagement, coordinating the refinery’s social investment program and supporting it to meet Alcoa's Social Performance Management Standard and external performance commitments.
Build positive relationships with the local community, deliver high quality stakeholder engagement, and support the location to meet Alcoa's Social Performance Management Standard (SPMS) and external performance standards.
Support the delivery of strategic and tactical plans that deliver, protect, and enhance the location's social license to operate and grow.
Implement the location’s stakeholder and community engagement plan, and associated interactions, including with Aboriginal people and organisations.
Coordinate Alcoa's presence at local events that form part of the location's stakeholder engagement plan.
Assist with the coordination and delivery of consultation to support regulatory and organisational requirements, as well as other topics on behalf of the location (eg environmental approvals, capital projects, 5- year mine plan, GISTM, LTRMS, closure planning, RAP, issues management)
Manage community complaints and escalation of grievances in alignment with requirements of the SPMS, responding to and registering complaints and liaising with subject matter experts as required.
Identify and manage social issues and risks, and work with relevant colleagues to co-develop strategic and tactical solutions across corporate and operational contexts (including coordinating the production of relevant communications tools - key messaging, fact sheets etc).
What’s on offer:
Career development opportunities to pursue your passion
Benefits allowance
Performance related bonus (variable)
16 weeks paid parental leave scheme
Paid annual volunteer hours
Social and diversity focused engagement opportunities
What you can bring to the role:
Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, Sustainability, Communications, Business, or a related field
Minimum of 3 - 5 years’ experience working in the social performance or community relations field.
Proven experience in social impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, and the implementation of social performance strategies to deliver and maintain social licence to operate.
Experience managing complex issues to support mutually beneficial outcomes with both internal and external stakeholders.
Disclaimer: Please note that applications close midday Australian Western Standard Time of the posting end date.
Additional information
Interviews may progress prior to the closing date, although all applications will be considered.
You will only be contacted if you are shortlisted for an interview, this process can take up to four weeks from the closing date.
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About the Location
Alcoa's Wagerup Refinery is one of the world's most environmentally and technologically advanced alumina refineries, and produces approximately 2.9 million metric tons of alumina each year. Located approximately 150 kilometres south of Perth, it is located on the border of WA’s picturesque Peel and South West regions. Our workplace is an inclusive and respectful environment, where we embrace change, new ideas and equal opportunity to succeed.
We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress. Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.
This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work, be your authentic self, and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career!
Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.