Community Relations & Social Performance Advisor

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress.

The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

This is your opportunity to help share the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies.

Become a valued part of the team that’s shaping the future of aluminium, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves and flies.

Be part of it and shape your world.

The Community Relations and Social Performance Advisor is a critical role supporting the Wagerup Alumina Refinery to embed a social performance culture and assist in managing community relations to ensure Alcoa’s social license to operate is maintained.

The role is responsible for building and maintaining positive relationships with the local community, delivering high quality stakeholder engagement, coordinating the refinery’s social investment program and supporting it to meet Alcoa's Social Performance Management Standard and external performance commitments.


* Build positive relationships with the local community, deliver high quality stakeholder engagement, and support the location to meet Alcoa's Social Performance Management Standard (SPMS) and external performance standards.


* Support the delivery of strategic and tactical plans that deliver, protect, and enhance the location's social license to operate and grow.


* Implement the location’s stakeholder and community engagement plan, and associated interactions, including with Aboriginal people and organisations.


* Coordinate Alcoa's presence at local events that form part of the location's stakeholder engagement plan.


* Assist with the coordination and delivery of consultation to support regulatory and organisational requirements, as well as other topics on behalf of the location (eg environmental approvals, capital projects, 5- year mine plan, GISTM, LTRMS, closure planning, RAP, issues management)


* Manage community complaints and escalation of grievances in alignment with requirements of the SPMS, responding to and registering complaints and liaising with subject matter experts as required.


* Identify and manage social issues and risks, and work with relevant colleagues to co-develop strategic and tactical solutions across corporate and operational contexts (including coordinating the production of relevant communications tools - key messaging, fact sheets etc).

What’s on offer:


* Career development opportunities to pursue your passion


* Benefits allowance


* Performance related bonus (variable)


* 16 weeks paid parental leave scheme


* Paid annual volunteer hours


* Social and diversity focused engagement opportunities

What you can bring to the role:


* Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, Sustainability, Communications, Business, or a related field


* Minimum of 3 - 5 years’ experience workin...