Land Access Officer – Sandfire Motheo

Key Performance Areas:
• Develop and implement comprehensive land access strategies and plans aligned with Exploration plans, timelines, and budget requirements.
• Identify and map all affected stakeholders, including landholders, lawful occupiers, local communities and traditional authorities, and integrate stakeholder considerations into planning.
• Define access requirements for different Exploration activities, including drilling, geophysics, and sampling to ensure alignment with operational team planning requirements.
• Prepare and manage land access schedules, ensuring timely availability of access to meet exploration milestones.
• Initiate and coordinate processes for securing land access, including statutory permits, authorisations and land access agreements.
• Integrate legal, environmental, and social requirements into land access plans to ensure full compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Proactively engage all relevant stakeholders, including landholders, lawful occupiers, local communities, and traditional authorities, to secure and maintain access.
• Communicate Exploration activities, potential impacts and land access requirements clearly to stakeholders to manage expectations and build understanding.
• Build and sustain trusted relationships with stakeholders to support long-term land access for Exploration activities and uphold the Company’s social license to operate.
• Maintain detailed records of stakeholder interactions, agreements, and commitments.
• Lead and facilitate negotiations for land access agreements, ensuring fair, transparent, and culturally appropriate outcomes for all parties.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously update a comprehensive land access register or database capturing all agreements related to Exploration activities, including land access agreements, permits, authorisations and compensation records.
• Maintain up-to-date land access maps, plans, and registers using GIS and land management systems.
• Manage grievances and land access related disputes through structured processes, ensuring timely, respectful, and culturally sensitive resolution.
• Collaborate closely with Exploration Geology, Drilling and Environmental teams to ensure land access planning supports efficient project execution.
• Collaborate with Community Relations team to ensure consistency in community stakeholder engagement approaches and messaging from the Company.
• Support the review and approval of internal land disturbance permit applications required for land disturbance associated with Exploration activities.
• Identify potential land access risks such as disputes, competing land uses, regulatory delays and seasonal constraints to develop proactive mitigation measures.
• Escalate critical risks and recommend corrective actions to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Develop, update, and implement land access procedures for Exploration in accordance with Company Group Standards.
• Compile and deliver periodic reports outlining land access status, key risks, constraints, and progress against Exploration schedules to support management decision making.
• Carry out any other duties or responsibilities as may be reasonably assigned by the immediate supervisor to support the effective delivery of Exploration objectives.

Technical & Behavioural Competencies:
• High level of integrity, honesty and reliability.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical thinking skills.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Strong ethical standards and professional conduct.
• Proficiency in computer applications, including databases and spatial systems.
• Sound understanding of communication principles and practices.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Multi-culturally tolerant.
• Strong negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution skills.
• High-quality report writing and documentation skills.

Qualification & Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations/Communications, Environment, Community Development or a related field (or equivalent qualification).
• Minimum of 4 years’ relevant work experience, preferably within the mining or extractive industry.
• Demonstrated experience in community relations and stakeholder engagement.
• Fluency in Naro, Shekgalagari, Afrikaans, and other languages spoken within the Ghanzi District (advantageous).
• Good understanding of local community structures, cultures, leadership systems, customs, and practices, preferably through prior community involvement (advantageous).
• Valid Class B Driver’s Licence.