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Community Project Officer
Barrick Gold Corporation Tanzania
Position Description
Bulyanhulu Gold Mine is seeking to recruit Community Project Officer to join our team. The successful candidate for this position is expected to align to the Barrick DNA and drive a change within his/her team and the business and on a practical note will ensure activities in the Social & Environment Department are effectively planned and undertaken in a safe and cost-effective manner to achieve targets in accordance with BGML Mining Safety Standards, Policies and Procedures.
Reporting to: Social – Project and Grievance Superintendent
Work Schedule: Rotation Status (6 Weeks On, 3 weeks Off )
Duration: Permanent
Responsibilities
- Ability to own and lead the journey to zero and walk the floor to deliver a safety culture across the site.
- Ensure all community projects are implemented and completed on planned timeframe.
- Liaise with both Districts Msalala and Nyang’hwale on community project issues for resolution to ensure on-time project completion.
- Ensure community project site visits are conducted as scheduled.
- Identify any negative deviations from the approved project plan and advice way forward on issues identified for corrective measures.
- Establish and manage relations with independent contractors, vendors to ensure quality service delivery.
- Facilitate payment for community projects including review of the document submitted to BGML by service providers.
- Collaborate with technical teams from both districts to conduct quality control for community projects.
- Lead the Community Development Committee (CDC) and come up with sustainable projects (review the district strategic 5 years plan and advise the CDC team on implementation phases for each project)
Qualification Requirements
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in Community Development, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship Education
- Valid driving license
Experience Requirements
- 3-5 years’ experience preferably in mining or related industry
- Quick learner with a passion for developing people
Skills / Knowledge Requirements
- Strong business understanding
- Facilitation skills
- Team player
- Outstanding communication skills – oral, written, and presentation
- Ability to work independently
- Takes initiative, self-directed
- Makes realistic, practical, value-based decisions
- Computer literate: MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook
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About Us
Our mission is to be the world’s most valued gold and copper mining business. We are committed to partnering with our host countries and communities to transform their natural resources into tangible benefits and mutual prosperity.
With operating mines and projects in 18 countries, Barrick’s highly diversified workforce is drawn almost entirely from our host nations and equipped with world-class skills. We set the gold standard in sustainability by embedding environmental, social and economic considerations into all of our business decisions.
The company’s shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GOLD and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ABX. Learn more at www.barrick.com or follow us on LinkedIn .
Organization
Bulyanhulu is situated in north-west Tanzania, in the Kahama district of the Shinyanga region, approximately 55 kilometres south of Lake Victoria and 150 kilometres southwest of the city of Mwanza.
Bulyanhulu is a narrow-vein gold mine containing gold, silver and copper mineralisation in sulphides. The mineralisation of Bulyanhulu is associated with a number of steeply-dipping veins. Bulyanhulu commenced commercial production in 2001.
