NGM - Manager, Community Relations

Careermine; Elko (NV); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Careermine seeks a Manager, Community Relations to lead Nevada operations' community engagement, social performance, and regional partnerships. The role oversees field teams and advises senior leaders to integrate community perspectives into decisions.

The position requires extensive experience in community relations, a track record in stakeholder engagement, and a commitment to responsible business conduct across urban and rural settings.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in community relations, external affairs, stakeholder engagement, government relations, or social performance, preferably within mining, energy, infrastructure, industrial, or natural resource sectors.
• 5+ years of supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated experience negotiating community agreements, settlements, or significant stakeholder commitments.
• Experience owning or managing a grievance mechanism across multiple sites or operations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence operational and project decisions based on community or social risk.
• Experience working across both urban and rural environments.
• Experience across the full project lifecycle, including planning, permitting, operations, closure, and reclamation.
• Experience with social impact assessment, stakeholder management, and engagement systems.
• Valid driver's license and willingness to travel, including to remote operating locations.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing community relations team across urban and rural operations.
• Set engagement priorities, allocate resources based on social risk, and build leadership depth.
• Build trusted relationships with communities, local governments, business and civic leaders, educators, and other stakeholders.
• Own community engagement strategies and standards across operations, ensuring consistent, inclusive, and locally relevant engagement.
• Lead the community grievance mechanism, identify trends and systemic issues, and drive timely resolution and operational improvement.
• Ensure community relations practices reflect company commitments to responsible business conduct, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
• Identify and manage social risk across the portfolio and advise project and operational leaders early enough to influence decisions.
• Oversee social impact assessments, stakeholder research, and monitoring to inform business decisions.
• Provide clear counsel on emerging issues and escalated material risks appropriately.
• Lead social investment and community partnership strategies aligned with community priorities.
• Partner across HR, supply chain, operations, and other functions to advance local hiring, workforce development, supplier opportunities, and regional priorities.
• Measure and communicate the outcomes and impact of community investments and partnerships.

Job description

Manager, Community Relations

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Manager, Community Relations to lead community engagement, social performance, regional partnerships, and community investment across our Nevada operations. This highly visible leadership role will shape how Nevada Gold Mines engages with communities, manages social risk, and creates lasting regional benefits.

The Manager, Community Relations will lead a field-based team across urban and rural communities and serve as a trusted advisor to operations and senior leadership. Working closely with operations, projects, permitting, environmental, legal, HR, supply chain, sustainability, and other functions, this role will ensure community perspectives are understood early and meaningfully incorporated into business decisions.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Team & Community Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing community relations team across urban and rural operations.
• Set engagement priorities, allocate resources based on social risk, and build leadership and succession depth.
• Build trusted relationships with communities, local governments, business and civic leaders, educators, and other stakeholders.

Engagement & Social Performance

• Own community engagement strategies and standards across operations, ensuring consistent, inclusive, and locally relevant engagement.
• Lead the community grievance mechanism, identify trends and systemic issues, and drive timely resolution and operational improvement.
• Ensure community relations practices reflect company commitments to responsible business conduct, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Social Risk & Operational Influence

• Identify and manage social risk across the portfolio and advise project and operational leaders early enough to influence decisions.
• Oversee social impact assessments, stakeholder research, and monitoring to inform business decisions.
• Provide clear counsel on emerging issues and escalated material risks appropriately.

Regional Development & Partnerships

• Lead social investment and community partnership strategies aligned with community priorities.
• Partner across HR, supply chain, operations, and other functions to advance local hiring, workforce development, supplier opportunities, and regional priorities.
• Measure and communicate the outcomes and impact of community investments and partnerships.

Issues, Incidents & Reporting

• Lead or support resolution of complex stakeholder concerns, disputes, and community-facing incidents.
• Coordinate with Tribal Relations on matters involving tribal lands, treaty rights, ceded territory, or areas of cultural significance.
• Ensure engagement, grievance, commitment, and performance data meet regulatory, audit, litigation, sustainability, and ESG requirements.

Qualifications & Skills

Education

• Bachelor's degree in in public affairs, communications, political science, rural development, sustainability, natural resources, or related field required.

Experience

• 12+ years of experience in community relations, external affairs, stakeholder engagement, government relations, or social performance, preferably within mining, energy, infrastructure, industrial, or natural resource sectors required.
• 5+ years of supervisory experience required. Direct experience in mining, extractive industries, energy, infrastructure, or another high-impact operating environment.
• Demonstrated experience negotiating community agreements, settlements, or significant stakeholder commitments.
• Experience owning or managing a grievance mechanism across multiple sites or operations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence operational and project decisions based on community or social risk.
• Experience working across both urban and rural environments.
• Experience across the full project lifecycle, including planning, permitting, operations, closure, and reclamation.
• Experience with social impact assessment, stakeholder management, and engagement systems.
• Valid driver's license and willingness to travel, including to remote operating locations.

Leadership Requirements

• Sound judgment: Makes thoughtful, defensible decisions in complex and high-pressure situations, often with incomplete information.
• Honest counsel: Provides leaders with the information and perspective they need, including when community or social risk warrants a change in course.
• Relationship leadership: Builds credibility through presence, consistency, active listening, and genuine engagement.
• Negotiation: Develops durable solutions that communities regard as fair and the business can responsibly sustain.
• Consistency: Applies standards consistently across operations while recognizing local context.
• Accountability: Ensures commitments made to communities are tracked, communicated, and delivered.
• Developing others: Builds the capability, confidence, and leadership depth of a dispersed, field-based team.
• Resilience: Comfortable operating in complex environments where priorities can shift quickly and difficult issues require persistence.

Working Conditions

• Frequent travel to operating sites and host communities, including remote locations and overnight stays.
• Community meetings, hearings, and events may occur outside normal working hours.
• On-call availability may be required for incidents affecting communities.
• Compliance with site health, safety, security, and environmental requirements.

Performance Measures

• Grievance response, resolution, and closure performance across operations.
• Community commitments delivered on schedule.
• Effective engagement supporting permits, projects, operational changes, and approvals.
• Social risks identified and addressed early enough to influence business decisions.
• Measurable outcomes from social investment and local-benefit programs.
• Team capability, retention, and succession depth.
• Consistent application of community relations standards across operations.

Country Specific Requirements

• Eligible to live and work in the United States, required.
• Fluent in reading and writing in English, required.
• Fluent in reading and writing in Spanish, preferred.

Other Barrick Global Compliance Requirements

Health and Safety Requirements/ Considerations:

• You must be able to carry out all the essential functions of your position in a safe and responsible manner, including taking the necessary precautionary measures to protect your own health and safety, the health and safety of others.
• Always use and maintain properly protective clothing and equipment, and other facilities provided for the protection of your health and safety of others.
• Report to your supervisor any situation that you consider represents a risk to your health or safety, to that of any other person.
• Perform inspections of health and safety conditions and risks in your workplace as necessary, correct issues/conditions/risks that do not meet the standards and / or report them to your supervisor by the appropriate means.
• Ask questions and / or inform your supervisor when you are not sure about any health or safety condition, policy or procedure.

Each and every one has the responsibility and is authorized to take personal leadership to:

• Ensure personal compliance with all environmental, health and standards.
• Take immediate action to correct any sub-standard condition or behavior.
• Ensure that work areas and equipment are in safe condition.
• Ensure that each task / work is performed safely and without adverse consequences for health.
• Identify, evaluate, control and report hazards using the Land Level Risk Assessments.