Community Liaison Officers x2 Oil palm Uganda Limited (OPUL)

Oil palm Uganda Limited (OPUL) has established over 6,000 hectares of oil palm supported by over 5,000 hectares of small holder farmers on Kalangala Bugala Island. The crude oil is shipped to the refinery at Masese Jinja at Bidco Uganda Limited (BUL) for manufacture of oils, fats, soap and detergents.

We conduct business in a more prosperous safe and environmentally sustainable manner that promotes well being of our shareholders, community, government, employees and customers. Our vision is to be the leading internationally competitive high yielding low-cost oil palm plantation and milling company producing sustainable palm oil. In a bid to fulfill this vision, we are hiring:

Duties:
• Ensure effective provision of corporate legal services by identifying organizational needs, providing legal advice or sourcing and coordinating appropriate external legal providers and working with them on all company matters.
• Working with Management, provides oversight of all government and local government affairs with the company.

Contributes to the development of organizational culture and policy

Creating and communicating a favorable public image for the employer/ organization through media and other fora’s designed to safeguard investors, customers, stakeholders, etc.

Establish and develop a link with the marketing department/ team to ensure consistence between the clients advertising message and corporate affairs message.
• Review and edit all press releases of the organizations including social media e.g. Twiter, facebook, youtube, what’s App, etc.
• Responsible for building project objectives internally and externally through ensuring impact reputation and future success.
• Establishment of effective working relationships (internal and external) with stake holders.
• Support, implement strategies to build and protect reputation of the organization/ company both externally and internally, through media relations, government relations, internal communication, etc.
• Support the development and delivery of strategic direction of community relations strategies and procedures, voice of customer/stake holder feedback.
• Manage company relations with neighboring communities, those affected by the project, local government, and immigrant communities and other stake holders.
• Offer specialist advice on community relations & community development to management & provide timely and regular feed back to OPUL on the surrounding communities’ concern.
• Work closely with the community, governmental departments i.e. Education Health, Transport& Works among others on relevant issues in a timely, professional, culturally and acceptable manner.
• Conduct a baseline survey & thereafter carry out an assessment of the projects impact on local communities’ means of livelihood at regular intervals.
• Develop & implement communication strategy including grievance handling through sensitization & participate in handling grievances from surrounding communities: from sensitization about the procedure until the recording & management of all grievances.
• Communicate with surrounding communities on all relevant issues in a timely, professional and culturally acceptable manner.
• Guide and assist OPUL on handling all social and environmental issues in relations with the surrounding communities.
• Implement specific activities as assigned by Management from time to time. • Any other duties as may be determined by the company/ management from time to time.
• Engage all concession communities once in each quarter of the year and update management with minutes of all discussions
• Collaborate with communities to protect all company conservation areas in and around the concession.

Qualifications:
• Possession of relevant degree preferably in humanities (Social Sciences, Education, Mass communication, Anthropology).

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Law/Social Sciences/Community/Human Resources/ Communication
• Managerial experience of at least five years will be an added advantage
• Able to supervise and lead subordinates
• Ability to collect data and use it to assess social impacts of the project on the community.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Good report writing skills.