Principal Indigenous Engagement Specialist

**Requisition ID**:87242

**Job Category**:Environmental

**Location**:Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 65 years of business and technical expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure, our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries tirelessly work toward bettering the industries in which we operate. With practical solutions that are safe, innovative and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally. Are you looking for an opportunity to join a diverse group of professionals who are committed to remaining exceptional? We look forward to hearing from you.

A successful project needs to do more than deliver on its intended purpose. It needs to address the needs of its residents and provide real, tangible benefits for the surrounding community. It must wholeheartedly embrace the mantra of leaving it better than we found it, ensuring a brighter future for the lives it affects.

Inclusion and collaboration with local communities is the key to successful project delivery. In a practice that is growing, you will be part of Hatch’s Environment and Sustainability Practice interfacing with our global Community Engagement and Social Performance (CESP) team. The Practice collaborates with clients, communities, stakeholders, and Hatch’s engineering teams to create mutually beneficial and sustainable infrastructure, metals, and energy projects. The opportunity is unique: Hatch’s wealth of technical engineering experience combined with community insights creates an inclusive vision for clients’ projects - and we are helping to make this a reality.

A successful project needs to do more than deliver on its intended purpose. It needs to be developed in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and surrounding communities, resulting in real, tangible benefits. It must wholeheartedly embrace the mantra of leaving it better than we found it, ensuring a brighter future for the lives it affects. Inclusion and collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities is the key to successful project delivery based on the following four principles:

- Engage early, openly, and honestly in a sustained manner with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities.
- Build long-term and mutually beneficial relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and businesses.
- Promote opportunities, with our clients and within Hatch that foster engagement and participation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
- Respect the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to maintain and strengthen their own institutions, cultures, and traditions, and to pursue their development in keeping with their needs, aspirations, and strengths.

In a practice that is growing, you will be part of Hatch’s Community Engagement and Social Performance (CESP) team within the Environmental and Sustainability (E&S) Practice. The team’s main objective is to collaborate with clients, communities, stakeholders, and Hatch’s engineering teams to create mutually beneficial and sustainable metals, energy, and infrastructure projects. The opportunity is unique: Hatch’s wealth of technical engineering experience combined with community insights creates an inclusive vision for clients’ projects - and we are helping to make this a reality.

Hatch is currently seeking to recruit a** Principal, Cultural Engagement Specialist** to be an integral part of a growing practice. The role will report to the Director Community Engagement and Social Performance, Australia and Asia. You will be the technical Cultural Engagement expert responsible for leading projects across Australia with opportunities to also participate in global initiatives.
In this role, you will act autonomously as a key company contact point for communication and engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, assist clients to partner with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to facilitate the codesign and implementation of culturally safe and appropriate models of engagement and support clients to identify and progress benefits realisation opportunities through proactive partnerships, and social investment and livelihood initiatives.

Additional accountabilities of the Principal Indigenous Engagement Specialist are:

- Maintain highly effective stakeholder relations for cultural heritage delivery tracking compliance against agreements and associated reports.
- Support the development of local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment and procurement plans and assist clients to facilitate the development of education, training, and business development partnerships with Indigenous Peoples, communities, other organisations, and government entities.
- Record, research, identify and anticipate any Indigenous relations risks to project development and