Indigenous Participation Advisor

**The Role**:
Are you passionate about creating a positive, impactful presence and legacy for Indigenous Australian communities? This role is your chance to directly influence Shell Australia’s delivery of social performance and Indigenous engagement.

**Where you fit in**

You will leverage your experience and expertise, as part of the broader Indigenous Partnerships and Cultural Hertiage (IPCH) team, to develop and deliver strategies to strengthen Shell’s local license to operate with Traditional Owners. The IPCH team operates within our broader social performance strategy with the overall objective creating a positive presence and legacy in the communities and countries in which we operate to gain community acceptance for Shell’s business objectives. This is crucial for our ambition to strengthen our license to operate and demonstrate that we are a responsible company.

This role will see you working with various teams within Shell Western Australia and Northern Territory to ensure that we grow and develop our Indigenous workforce by offering direct and indirect job and contracting opportunities. In this role you will support the development and implementation of Shell Australia’s National Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) and associated Indigenous participation activities.

Reporting to the National Indigenous Participation and Cultural Heritage Manager, you will be the focal point for Shell’s Indigenous engagement in Western Australia. This includes managing and championing relationships and representing the boarder IPCH team when engaging and directing the dissemination of IPCH strategy to a range of business and cross-functional teams across Shell globally and nationally, including:

- Corporate Relations Team;
- Shell Legal;
- National Social Performance Team;
- Human Resources;
- Asset Managers;
- Contracts & Procurement and Supply Chain; and
- Project Leaders

**What’s the role?**

You will support and report to the National Indigenous Affairs Manager and work collaboratively across the IPCH team to deliver Shell’s commitments to Indigenous communities, managing social and non-technical risks and building Shell’s brand by delivering Indigenous engagement and participation objectives.

In this role you will support the delivery and implementation of Shell Australia’s National Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) and associated Indigenous participation activities. This role will see you working with various teams within Shell to ensure we’ve grown and developed our Indigenous workforce by offering direct and indirect job and contracting opportunities.

Accountabilities:

- Support the Shell Australia Leadership team develop and deliver a National RAP that delivers tangible outcomes that are aligned with the needs of our Indigenous stakeholders.
- Support Shell’s RAP Champion network in achieving their objectives to encourage and coordinate employee participation in Shell’s RAP journey and associated activities.
- Ensure accurate reporting, tracking and progress of Shell Australia’s RAP commitments and associated budgets.
- Ensure RAP documentation and administration is accurate and updated.
- Develop and support delivery of Asset Indigenous Participation Plan.
- Provide guidance on how Shell’s Assets engages with Indigenous stakeholders in a culturally appropriate way.
- Provide guidance on how impacts to Indigenous communities are managed.
- Provide guidance on commitments to investing into the Aboriginal communities through social investment programs.
- Support HR to develop strategies to maximize Indigenous employment and retention.
- Support Indigenous suppliers to increase access to Shell supply chain.

**What we need from you**

To be successful in this role you will have extensive expertise and experience in engaging effectively with Australian Indigenous communities and being a conduit for business understanding of community’s needs. Coupled with extensive experience and proven track record of implementing national programs focused on maximizing Indigenous participation opportunities and outcomes within the gas sector.

These specific skillsets should be furnished with a deep knowledge of Indigenous history, cultures, and communities critical to developing the strategic direction and engaging with key external stakeholders as a representative of the business.

You will have highly developed interpersonal skills and proven negotiation, risk management and collaborative behaviours including strong written and oral communication and ICT skills. Your excellent time management skills, ability to motivate others and a solid understanding of budget management will drive results. Your highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, teamed with an ability to work with others to foster collaboration will ensure your success in this role.

A proven ability to lead, engage and influence across businesses to effectively oversee contract managemen