Job Title: Community Liaison Officer
Organisation: Uganda National Mining Company (UNMC)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
REF: UNMC-2025-EE-02-06
About Organisation:
The Uganda National Mining Company (UNMC) was established under the Mining and Minerals Act, 2022, (Act No. 25 of 2022) and incorporated under the Companies Act 2012, (Act No.1 of 2012). It is a limited liability company wholly owned by the Government of Uganda. The overall function of UNMC is to manage the commercial holding and participating interests of the State in the mining and mineral industry to ensure that the country obtains optimal value from its mineral resources.
Job Summary: Support conservation and livelihood enhancement interventions focusing on communities living adjacent to the Company project areas in liaison with relevant district local government staff to ensure that the initiatives are sustainable, bring significant and equitable benefits to communities and strengthen biodiversity conservation and build household resilience to shocks and risks.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage relational engagement (stakeholder mapping of administrative and traditional leaders, influencers and opinion leaders, service providers (health, education), focus groups (gender, youth, vulnerable people etc);
- Build awareness, knowledge and understanding of village and community demographics, priorities and concerns of different community groups.
- Identify and engage opinion leaders to support dissemination of reliable information to various audiences;
- Promote awareness and understanding of project operational activities and their implications for communities;
- Identify opportunities to support initiatives benefiting the local communities and communicate them to their line manager.
- Clearly explain issues relating to safety, security and emergency risk and requisite precautions to community members.
- Assist all other project functions (Construction, Environment, Biodiversity, Social Performance) needs to engage with communities, local governments, civil society and tourism sector.
- Assist land access, compensation and livelihood restoration related initiatives as the first point of contact as well as input into the processes to be aligned with in conjunction with stakeholders.
- Facilitate initial project phase activities ensuring routine operational engagement.
- Plan daily/weekly/monthly engagement based on need to deliver relational, operational and development focused engagement with community stakeholders, CSOs and local government in the Project Area of Influence, in the framework of establishing and maintaining trust-based relations.
- Organize individual, group and community meetings to inform, consult, and engage in a format appropriate for the purpose and cultural preferences.
- Identify and respect the needs of different stakeholder groups, especially vulnerable groups, and modify engagement approaches as appropriate.
- Assist with the management of Community Grievance Mechanism, including promoting awareness and understanding, access and use; grievance registration investigation and resolution.
- Record Stakeholder engagement and grievances in Project Information Management System and ensure continuous feedback, grievance registration.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- An Honor’s degree in Social Sciences, Anthropology, Rural Development, and Environmental Management or related field.
- A postgraduate qualification is an added advantage.
- Minimum four (4) years experience working in a similar position in rural communities preferably with in mining areas;
- Experience working with community development programmes or related work
- Recognized knowledge of community conservation matters; integrated conservation and development; livelihood development;
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to develop and maintain good relations with a wide range of stakeholders, local communities, NGOs, Local Government, etc.;
- Good negotiation and conflict management skills;
- Ability to assist with formal consultation processes, by supporting meetings, taking meeting notes and organizing information;
- Ability to analyze data and verbal and written communication to inform activities;
- Ability to use a range of problem-solving techniques to resolve low- to medium-level issues among community members, and seek assistance from colleagues promptly if required;
- Age: 25-35 years
How to Apply:
Applicant should visit the UNMC website at www.unmc.co.ug or the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development website: www.memd.go.ug to view the detailed job description, select and apply for the job of choice and submit application through the online application system https://form.jotform.com/250122842226548
Only applications received online will be accepted. Applicants are required to attach CERTIFIED copies of the required academic documents. (Note that the academic documents should be certified by the awarding local institutions while awards by foreign institutions should be certified by the foreign institution or a duly authorized Certification body of that country) All applicants must attach soft copies of relevant motivation letter, CV and academic transcripts in word and PDF formats only.
Applications without Certified academic documents will not be considered.
UNMC offers a highly dynamic work environment and provides competitive and attractive benefits.
Deadline: Friday 19th April 2025 at 17:00pm
NB: Only shortlisted and successful candidates will be contacted, and any form of lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification.
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