Senior Communities Specialist

Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Senior Communities Specialist

Work location: Adelaide

Roster: Monday to Friday

Working closely with the State Manager South Australia, the Senior Communities Specialist is to ensure that the communities function anticipates and support business planning and execution to deliver outcomes around approvals, land access and local content and benefits

Key responsibilities:

• Assist the State Manager South Australia and Group Manager Community and Government Engagement in ensuring the Fortescue Energy strategic engagement with native title parties and communities (including landholders) on renewable energy projects enhance Fortescue’s ability to access and develop renewable resources.
• Engage within the business to understand the priorities of other functions and ensure that Communities support complements their activities.
• Work with Group Manager Community and Government Engagement to support development and integration of best practice approaches across Fortescue assets, while meeting current and emerging societal and ESG expectations in progressing community outcomes.
• Develop novel ideas to leverage success in engagement with Communities, and support the development of communications material that can be used outside South Australia to broadly strengthen Fortescue’s reputation.

Qualifications and skills required:

• Demonstrated experience in a similar social performance position, particularly stakeholder engagement in the Upper Spencer Gulf region.
• Demonstrated experience and capability to lead a team.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Significant experience in design, development and delivery of industry leading social studies and associated management plans.
• Strong eye for attention to detail and accuracy.
• High level written and verbal communication skills.
• High level of passion for renewable energy.
• Proven ability for credible and authentic engagement with strong interpersonal skills.
• High level of self-motivation with a demonstrated ability in resilience when managing diverse workloads and priorities and deliver quality and timely results.
• Extremely well developed analytical, research and problem-solving skills.
• University degree in relevant discipline.

Candidates must be able to bring a flexible mindset, challenge traditional thinking, and be prepared to work outside of their comfort zone.

Our values drive our culture and performance through a strong focus on safety, family and determination. Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work.

Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neuro diverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. 

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified

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