Locality: New Orleans - Louisiana - USA
Registration Period: 28 November/2024 - 06 December/2024
As a Community and Institutional Relations Specialist, your main responsibilities will be:
• Plan, coordinate, and execute the stakeholder management plan.
• Represent Vale in its engagement with local stakeholders, in support to and together at times with the Country Manager / Managing Officer Vale USA.
• Coordinate and execute the CBP.
• Support in translating key aspects of Vale's organizational cultural transformation, and processes related therein, to the local context (e.g. of the jurisdiction and of the project itself), in particular to the realms of active listening and open and transparent dialogue with society – themselves two key precepts of Vale's organizational culture.
• Lead, in support to the Country Manager / Managing Officer Vale USA, the dimension of necessary resources (people, internal to and external to Vale, and related expertise via contracts) toward the execution of the stakeholder management plan.
• Lead, in support to the Country Manager / Managing Officer Vale USA, the interface with Vale's corporate Communications department, on aspects of communications, event planning etc., related to the project.
• Support the Country Manager / Managing Officer Vale USA in budgetary planning and management in the community and institutional spheres.
• Represent the project and the company at the local level vis-à-vis government authorities, and, as necessary, aligned with related Vale areas, toward local stakeholders in other critical project dimensions (partner, critical service providers, potential additional replication briquette partners etc.)
• Collaborate with a wide array of areas in Vale involved in the project, such as business development, FP&A, Corporate Affairs, Project Development and Solutions, Climate Change Performance, Human Rights, Corporate Sustainability, Energy, among others, to define the best project configuration for responsible cost allocation and disbursement and best value generation for all stakeholders.
What do we expect from this position?
BA / BS in Social Sciences, Public Administration, Communications, Economics.
Native English speaker.
Experience working in, and close knowledge of, the broader region of the project (e.g. Gulf Coast), is preferred.
Skills:
• Technical expertise in stakeholder management.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Excellent writing communication skills.
• Expertise in concepts relevant to sustainability within large-scale projects, including private-public sector arrangements, and in government and regulatory affairs as relevant to project and companies active in industrial and energy transition activities and subject to requirements for publicly-traded companies in the US.
• Strong knowledge of, and experience in, legal concepts and best practices in the real of Human Rights.
• Experience in the application of activities / partnerships related to the concepts of environmental justice.
• Experience in representing organizations vis-a-vis governmental and non-governmental stakeholders, in public forums and bilateral exchanges.
• Strong knowledge of the trajectory of decarbonization / energy transition, in particular as pertains to the US, and understanding of the potential impacts of changing business and regulatory contexts related to this transition, upon local stakeholders in the region.