SA - ED & SED Manager

• Department: Communities
• Job Location: Cape Town
• Reporting to: Country ED Manager, South Africa
• Travel Required**:** Regular Travel to Ceres

Company Overview:

Perdekraal East Wind Farm, situated outside of Ceres, in the Western Cape’s Witzenberg Municipal area, less than two hours away from Cape Town, commenced operations during October 2020. The wind farm delivers 110MW’s of clean renewable power from its forty-eight wind turbines.

The wind farm spans an area of 3055 hectares and was chosen because of its excellent wind resource and its proximity to national roads for wind turbine transportation.

When operating at full capacity, Perdekraal East Wind Farm generates around 368.8 GWh/year of clean renewable energy per year and is expected to supply electricity to power up to 111 118 South African homes.

Perdekraal East Wind Farm eliminates approximately 410,000 tonnes of carbon emissions each year compared to traditional fossil fuel power plants. In addition to zero carbon emissions and reduced use of fossil fuels, the country will benefit from minimal water consumption during the generation process and significant social and enterprise development programmes.

Summary of Role :

The SED & ED Manager will be responsible for managing the Enterprise Development (EnD) & Socio-Economic Development (SED) budget, strategy and implementation. They will work closely with the legal and compliance team and their outputs will be according to the requirements of the DoE and the project Boards. This role requires the individual to have a strong background in both Socio Economic and Enterprise Development.

What You Will Do:

• Understand and develop community engagement plans and positive interventions strategy during project development.
• Manage third party consultants and support the commercial team, responsible for preparing ED and SED REIPPPP bid chapters, ensuring all relevant information is provided based on knowledge acquired for the specific community during development
• Lead ED Managers in EnD activities and total community management during construction, in partnership with the construction team.
• Implement EnD & SED qualitatively in communities during operations to ensure Mainstreams social licence to operate, in partnership with the operations team.
• Identify important corporate and project stakeholders (including government, parastatals, NGOs, local communities) and develop plans to ensure positive relationships with them, using EnD & SED as a method to engage.
• Preparation of Economic Development reports and forecasts for shareholders, financers and the Department of Energy (DoE),
• Monitor contractor Economic Development compliance and report to CEO, Vice President: Projects, the Owner of the project, and the DoE
• Conducting periodical audits on all ED elements of the scorecard
• Establish and prepare governance framework for Trusts.
• Ensure full compliance with the Implementation Agreement
• Manage external and internal audits on all Economic Development elements
• Contract management of service providers implementing SED and EnD initiatives
• Apply all lessons learned throughout the project lifecycle in order to develop a world class company community management system that makes real, positive, measurable and sustainable impact on the communities hosting our projects.
• Support ED managers with input on contractual agreements timeously
• Embedding health and safety standards in community projects
• In-depth understanding of the Socio-Economic needs of the region.
• Liaise with Mainstream Project Managers and Site Managers

What We Require:

• Social science degree or development studies related degree (post-graduate qualification preferred)

• Minimum 5 years relevant applicable experience of with 2 in of working unsupervised

• Working with SA government and traditional communities (advantage)

• Understanding and experience of community social dynamics and local government dynamics

• Understanding of legal environment for community engagement and development

• Ability to communicate effectively with local communities

• Excellent writing and reporting skills, as well as good interpersonal relationships

• Good communication and presentation skills;

• Good command of both English and Afrikaans is essential, an additional South African language would be advantageous

• Drivers licence

• Experience working with the relevant communities where the projects are located would be advantageous

Preference will be given to Candidates who have the following Experience:

• Experience in the South African development sector in some or all of the following areas:
  • Education and skills development
  • Socio-economic development (SED)
  • Enterprise Development (ED)
  • Food security and agri-support
  • Women headed initiatives

The successful Candidate will likely have:

• Worked as a community development / engagement / liaison role for the private sector or local government
• Knowledge of the renewable energy project development sector and the process to develop utility scale wind and solar projects
• Knowledge of the SA Government’s renewable power procurement process

Why you really should click that button 👇

We offer you the opportunity to work in a dynamic and entrepreneurial organisation, to be part of a diverse workplace with regards to gender, age and cultural background in the most exciting industry in the world today. You will receive a very competitive total benefits package including an excellent base salary, bonus scheme and share options.

Career development

• Excellent training (an average 54 hours a year)
• Secondment and relocation opportunities
• Career progression (16% promotions across the Group in 2021)

Shared financial success

• A competitive, industry benchmarked and cost-of-living linked salary, reviewed annually
• Annual bonus
• Share options
• Salary contribution to your pension fund

Work/life balance

• WFH in a hybrid working arrangement
• Generous annual leave, plus a community or charity work day each year
• Paid maternity, paternity, adoptive and bereavement leave
• Allowance for WFH set up

True diversity & inclusion

• Equal opportunity targets
• GWEC Women in Wind and Mainstream Women in Renewables programmes
• You can be you, whatever your gender, colour or sexual orientation

Care for health & wellbeing

• Generous health insurance subsidy
• Income protection insurance
• Life cover
• Free Employee Assistance Program

These are just some of the reasons why we are officially certified as a Great Place to Work.

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