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The main responsibility of the position holder’s:

General

• Contribute to day-to-day management of stakeholder engagement activities as outlined in the Project Stakeholder Engagement Plan and operational priorities;

• Contribute to the Social Performance team and more broadly the TotalEnergies EP

• Uganda teams in the delivery of their objectives and activities;

• Participate in regular training aimed at enhancing the ability to perform this role, as appropriate for his/her skills requirements and the evolving nature of the role (this includes mandatory HSSE, project induction and ethical training);

Tasks and Activities

• Plan daily/weekly/monthly engagement based on need to deliver relational,

• operational and development focused engagement with community stakeholders, CSOs and local government in the Project Area of Influence, in the framework of establishing and maintaining trust-based relations.

• Organize individual, group and community meetings to inform, consult, and engage in a format appropriate for the purpose and cultural preferences.

• Support community meetings by preparing information packages, arranging venues, posting advertisements and collecting feedback forms.

• Identify and respect the needs of different stakeholder  groups, especially vulnerable groups, and modify engagement approaches as appropriate.

• Ensure that the most appropriate information-sharing tools are used for different stakeholder groups, including vulnerable groups.

• Manage relational engagement (stakeholder mapping of administrative and traditional leaders, influencers and opinion leaders, service providers (health, education), focus groups (gender, youth, vulnerable people etc);

• Build awareness,  knowledge  and  understanding  of  village  and  community demographics, priorities and concerns of different community groups.

• Identify and  engage  opinion  leaders  to  support  dissemination  of  reliable information to various audiences;

• Promote awareness and understanding of project operational activities and their implications for communities;

• Identify opportunities to support initiatives benefiting the local communities and communicate them to their line manager.

• Clearly explain issues relating to safety, security and emergency risk and requisite precautions to community members.

• Assist all other project functions (Construction, Environment, Biodiversity, Social Performance) needs to engage with communities, local governments, civil society and tourism sector.

• Support management of the community commitments’ register.

• Assist land access, compensation and livelihood restoration related initiatives as the first point of contact as well as input into the processes to be aligned with in conjunction with stakeholders.

• Assist with any field visits organized by TotalEnergies or any of the JV partners.

• Facilitate construction phase activities ensuring routine operational engagement;

• Facilitate Contractors (including local recruitment process);

• Facilitate Third parties service providers responsible for delivery of social management programs;

• Report weekly on community perceptions and questions raised about Project activities, general community issues and information important to company, general observations (in-migration to the area, new building being build etc.), conflict issues / rumors and any weak signals;

• Reporting to the line manager regarding own activities and the day-to-day situation in the community and against agreed Key performance indicators (KPI).

• Assist with the management of Community Grievance Mechanism, including promoting awareness and understanding, access and use; grievance registration investigation and resolution;

• Record Stakeholder engagement and grievances in Project Information Management System and ensure continuous feedback, grievance registration.