Heading is recruiting for its client, an oil and gas company, a Land Access Programs Manager (M/F) to work in Cabo Delgado.
Main responsibilities:
- Lead the onboarding, coaching, upskilling, and mentoring of the RP implementation team, including data management, compensation, grievance resolution framework, relocation and livelihood re-establishment and development.
- Support the procurement of IPs for implementing key components of the Resettlement program.
- Develop and/or revised existing land access and livelihood execution strategies, implementation plans/schedule/budget and the necessary implementation monitoring.
- Guide the RP team and IPs, as required, for effective implementation and risk management.Develop and/or revised existing procedures, documents and agreements for the compensation entitlement/payment delivery and oversee its implementation.
- Develop a relocation plan and ensure all physically displaced HHs receive appropriate support and are successfully relocated to their replacement houses and appropriate monitoring is in place.
- Ensure all data and documents related to the compensation, grievance resolution framework and other resettlement-related activities are properly recorded and deposited into the Project Data System .
- Coordinate the handover of resettlement land access to A1/A4 ensuring that all supporting documents have been properly recorded and deposited into the Project Data System.
- Ensure the land access and resettlement processes and all field activities are completed in compliance with the Resettlement
- Plan, company policies and procedures, and all applicable Mozambican legislation.
- Manage the implementation of the livelihood re-establishment, grievance resolution framework and development program through IPs.
- Act as a focal point on resettlement-related subjects between contractors, the Project, Government, Area 4, lenders, affected households, civil society organization and the wider community.
- Observe the Safety, Health, Environmental and Social aspects of the execution of the implementing partners’ scopes of work; seek to help them improve their performance through intervention.
Requirements:
- Minimum of a master’s degree in rural development, economics, sociology, anthropology, or any relevant field
- Experience in managing large-scale resettlement teams, IPs, and budget in the extractive industry, including lender financed projects and international ESG.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience managing implementation of large-scale land acquisition/resettlement program, preferable in Mozambique.
- Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to develop and maintain good relations with stakeholders incl. government, local communities, industry partners, CSOs/NGOs, and international organizations.
- Strong interpersonal skills, incl. negotiation, conflict mgt and ability to influence at all organizational levels.
- Fluency in Portuguese and English (written and spoken).
