Human Rights Manager - Kenya at Achyutam

• Promoting and protecting Human Rights within the Organization and surrounding communities in line with company policies and the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights.

Main accountabilities of the Human Rights Manager will include: -

• Working with key stakeholders to develop a detailed action plan to address human rights challenges in the workplace and in surrounding communities.
• Oversee human rights strategy with objectives and KPIs.
• Implementing meaningful human rights due diligence activities, including assessing, managing and monitoring the business’ impact on human rights, security and the environment.
• Developing and implementing a stakeholder engagement strategy to maintain relations with government officials, community representatives, unions, industry bodies and regulatory authorities as far as human rights and environmental issues are concerned.
• Developing and implementing a community engagement and consultation strategy using community consultation sessions to build strong relationships with surrounding communities.
• Help implement and support the company’s new grievance systems (for both employees and communities) and facilitate the integration of learnings from grievance mechanisms and remedial efforts into the human rights due diligence processes.
• Presenting strategic projects to MD & FDP CSO to help address/mitigate identified or perceived social risks.
• Developing relevant KPI’s that help monitor progress in crucial areas identified either in through HRIA, social audits or operational grievance mechanisms.
• Supporting all the relevant teams across the Company, including PR Manager, Welfare & Diversity Manager, Security Manager and Chief Sustainability Officer with the implementation of human rights-related requirements. This also includes close cooperation with internal compliance functions to ensure compliance from service providers to the company’s human rights standards.
• Building capacity, training and creating awareness on human rights-related topics to internal stakeholders such as supervisors, managers, workers etc (e.g. effective workplace communication, discrimination and unconscious bias, safeguarding, gender, sexual harassment), as well as provide support to the security manager in training private security providers to the company.