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• 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 Managing Director, 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. Twitter, Facebook, Youtube,
  WhatsApp, etc.
• Responsible for building project objectives
  internally and externally through ensuring impact reputation and future
  success.




• Building an 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.
• Render support in 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.
• Provide specialist advice on community
  relations and community development to management & provide timely and
  regular feed back to OPUL on the surrounding communities’ concern.
• Work closely with the relevant Officer
  (CLO) he/she will commission, manage & or support external service
  providers to comply with company policies.
• 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.
• Carry 0ut a baseline survey &
  thereafter carry out an assessment of the project’s impact on local
  communities’ means of livelihood at regular intervals.
• Develop and implement communication
  strategy including grievance handling through sensitization  and 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.
• The incumbent will 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.

• The applicant should preferably hold a
  relevant degree in humanities (Social Sciences, Education, Mass
  Communication, Anthropology
• At least five years of managerial
  experience is desired
• Ability to supervise and lead subordinates
  
• Ability to collect data and use it to
  assess social impacts of the project on the community.
• Excellent oral and written communication
  skills.
• Good report writing skills.

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