Director, Biodiversity Center of Excellence

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.

As a leader within Alcoa, you can help us fulfill our purpose and realize our vision to reinvent the aluminum industry.

Be part of the team that is helping shape a better workplace with a better work-life balance and the equal opportunities that help everyone thrive.

You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the role:

In this role, you will provide biodiversity expertise for Alcoa's overall biodiversity strategy development, develops conservation strategy beyond regulatory compliance, and provides guidance and expertise for other functions, including Operations.

Acts as external face of Alcoa on biodiversity topics and communications.

Drives networking and collaboration with global external stakeholders and entities.

Major activities/Key challenges


* Accountable for the development and implementation of the company biodiversity strategy, ensuring alignment with business imperatives, current and impending regulations, and evolving stakeholder expectations.


* Works collaboratively to integrate biodiversity management across ESG dimensions including social performance, human rights, water and decarbonization.


* Develops, implements, and supports policies and standards related to biodiversity management and ecosystem services, and mine rehabilitation.


* Collaborates with the responsible sourcing team to ensure biodiversity and ecosystem services risks in Alcoa’s supply chains and logistic networks are identified and appropriately managed.


* Defines indicators, targets and KPIs to track and communicate biodiversity performance internally and externally, aligned with disclosure requirements.


* Monitors the external landscape (key events, stakeholders, issues) and business implications for Alcoa.


* Serves as a pro-active advisor to senior executives for strategic decision-making on biodiversity management, ecosystem services and mine rehabilitation.


* Represents Alcoa in industry, government and academic forums (eg.

ASI, ICMM, IAI) in order to build reputation and benchmark company performance against peers.


* Leads and develops regional and location capacity to manage risks and generate new fundamental scientific knowledge and improvements in biodiversity and ecosystem management.


* Provides high-level assessments of biodiversity, ecosystem services and mine rehabilitation for joint ventures, potential acquisitions and new project proposals.


* Communicate progress/results through written technical reports, presentations and publications; initiate formal technical exchange meetings/forums.


* Maintain strong linkages internally with environmental research effort, and externally with universities, government agencies, or other corporations.


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