Labour & Compliance Specialist AMEA Power

Labour & Social Compliance Oversight

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of labour and social compliance frameworks in line with IFC PS2, ILO Core Conventions, World Bank EHS Guidelines, and local labour laws.
• Monitor site-level labour conditions, worker welfare, working hours, fair wages, grievance mechanisms, accommodation standards, and worker engagement, ensuring gender-sensitive practices, equality, and effective implementation of all social policies and procedures.
• Develop, enforce, and review labour and social requirements in EPC/O&M contracts, procurement documents, and subcontractor agreements, including LMPs, Worker Codes of Conduct, Human Rights policies, and GBVH prevention measures.
• Conduct audits, inspections, and gap assessments of contractors, subcontractors, and recruitment processes, promoting responsible contractor management and mitigating social risks across the supply chain.
• Act as a subject matter expert for AMEA Power on social performance, labour compliance, and human rights.

Social Risk Management & Strategic Support

• Identify labour and community-related risks and propose mitigation measures throughout the project lifecycle.
• Apply a gender lens to social risk assessments, addressing impacts on women and vulnerable groups.
• Support social impact assessments, ensuring alignment with ESIA mitigation measures, RAP commitments, and stakeholder engagement plans.
• Provide strategic guidance to projects and business teams, identifying social performance enablers and supporting corrective actions.
• Contribute to opportunity analysis, horizon scanning, and social trends analysis.

Grievance Mechanism & Incident Management

• Oversee the implementation and effectiveness of worker grievance mechanisms, ensuring accessibility and responsiveness.
• Lead investigations into labour-related non-compliances, worker complaints, GBVH incidents, or other social incidents, and develop corrective action plans.
• Ensure transparent reporting of social incidents to internal and external stakeholders, including lenders.

Monitoring, Reporting & Assurance

• Develop and maintain social performance dashboards, KPIs, and reporting processes.
• Track local employment, worker grievances, community interactions, and social incidents using gender-disaggregated data to monitor equality outcomes and inform corrective actions.
• Coordinate project-level and corporate social performance reporting, including contributions to the Annual Sustainability Report.
• Support ESG audits, lender due-diligence visits, and corrective action plans

Training & Capacity Building

• Train internal teams, contractors, and project stakeholders on labour rights, ethical recruitment, worker welfare, GBVH prevention, and gender-sensitive practices.
• Develop guidance documents, checklists, tools, and templates to standardize social performance practices.
• Lead change management initiatives for the social performance function, ensuring alignment with corporate ESG standards.

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with Development, HSSE, Legal, Procurement, EPC, Construction, and Operations teams to integrate social performance considerations.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders, including project representatives, lenders, contractors, and consultants.
• Provide technical guidance to project teams to embed social performance objectives in all project phases.