Community & Social Licence Manager

JERA Nex is a company created by JERA to scale renewable energy for a sustainable future. JERA Nex combines the resilience of JERA, one of the world’s largest electricity producers, with the agility and focus of a dedicated renewables business that can act at the pace required to drive the global energy transition.

JERA Nex invests in, currently owns and operates a portfolio of renewable energy assets, with a portfolio over 3GW that includes offshore wind, onshore wind and solar, as well as battery storage. This includes Parkwind, its wholly owned subsidiary. Headquartered in London, and with centres of excellence in Belgium, Japan, Taiwan and the US, our team of more than 300 renewable and energy industry experts combines global knowhow and experience with the local expertise and knowledge necessary to deliver successful projects.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Community & Social Licence Manager for an exciting renewables infrastructure project in Gippsland, Victoria.

Your role:

• Develop and deliver communications and stakeholder engagement plans to support the project strategy and build social licence.
• Build positive and collaborative working relationships with partners and community, education, industry and government agency stakeholders.
• Represent the project in the community, at public events and stakeholder meetings.
• Consult with community to ensure the voice of stakeholders is considered in project planning and social benefits are identified and realized.
• Facilitate the meaningful collaboration of project partners, including Traditional Owners, in project planning and development.
• Ensure stakeholder enquiries are effectively resolved in a timely and respectful manner.
• Lead the preparation of and delivery of community focused events and communications materials.
• Undertake project reporting of the Community and Stakeholder function.

Your profile:

• Exceptional verbal, written communication, public presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline such as communications, journalism or public relations, community development or commerce.
• Strong project management and multitasking abilities.
• Demonstrated skills and experience in developing and delivering community relations and benefits sharing programs.
• Experience in enabling community participation and building social licence in renewable energy or large infrastructure projects.
• 10 years’ experience in community engagement.
• Culturally competent with experience collaborating with Traditional Owner representative organisations, First Nations community members, businesses and/or community-controlled organisations in project planning and development.
• Ability to engage and influence.
• Adaptable and flexible approach to tasks, including a willingness to travel to meet with project stakeholders.

This role is based primarily in Gippsland, Victoria. Drivers Licence required. After hours and out of office work may be required.

What We Offer:

• Start-up and entrepreneurial environment in a company that is part of a larger, well-funded firm, that has long-term ambition to contribute to global decarbonization.
• Opportunity to define your workplace. We are starting out and every idea counts!
• A job that is part of making our world a greener place.
• A company and team that acknowledges the rights and responsibilities of Traditional Owners of the Country on which we work through our practical support for self-determination.
• International team that benefits from our different perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.
• We are high-performing and ambitious individuals who also enjoy our private lives. We hope you can identify with that.
• We believe in the benefit of flexible working hours and location and appreciate that we see one another in person regularly.
• We are not afraid to admit that we don’t know things but also proactively look to solve problems and work collaboratively.
• We work hard but also want to have fun at the same time, we’re on an exciting journey.

Established in 2015, JERA is an equal joint venture of TEPCO Fuel & Power, Incorporated and Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. JERA is a Japanese company with significant and global portfolio of international energy assets. It has industry leading expertise scaling the entire fuel and power supply chain, from upstream fuel investments to fuel procurement, trading and transportation, to power generation development, construction and operation. JERA’s mission is to contribute to an internationally competitive supply of power and energy and to invigorate the standard of living, industry and economy around the world.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.