Specific Responsibilities
The Community Partnerships Advisor is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with external organizations, businesses, and community stakeholders to support and enhance the mission and goals of an organization. They collaborate with partners to develop and implement initiatives, programs, and events that benefit the community and align with the organization's objectives. Additionally, they serve as a liaison between the organization and the community, advocating for the needs and interests of both parties. Strong communication, networking, and project management skills are essential for success in this role. This job requires strong skills in cross-cultural communication, understanding of needs in the developing world, and sensitivity to diverse standards of living.
- Lead and evolve Apache's community partnerships portfolio across its thematic pillars.
- Initiate, build and lead engagement with key external CSR, stakeholder and community partners.
- Continuous data management, monitoring and analysis of partners and programs in order to effectively quantify impact of the company’s community and CSR partnerships.
- Lead the company’s legacy environmental stewardship initiative, the Apache Tree Grant Program.
- Leverage and incorporate industry best practices while maintaining alignment with Apache's goals and capabilities.
- Build and maintain internal relationships that help advance the company’s engagement in the communities where we operate, including working closely with Operations and Human Resources.
- Drive, develop and maintain Apache's CSR risk assessment, risk management, and results.
- Represent Apache at external meetings and events.
- Occasional domestic and international travel required.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor's degree required
- 10+ years of experience in communications, public affairs and/or corporate social responsibility
- Project management skills and experience
- Strong communication, networking, and relationship-building skills
- Demonstrated ability to ability to establish relationships with external community partners
- Ability to work closely across multiple departments and with senior- and C-suite-level executives
- Previous experience in the oil and gas industry or another technical field is preferred
- Experience with community needs assessments, social impact assessments, or environmental risk assessments is preferred
- Public speaking experience is preferred
Competencies
The successful candidate will lead by example through successfully demonstrating the following:
- Core Competencies
- Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
- Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache’s business success;
- Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
- Culture: Willingness and ability to align one’s behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.
- Leadership Competencies
- Servant Leadership: Inspires and enables performance excellence through feedback, empathy, development and empowerment;
- Strategic Mindset: Applies business acumen to see the big picture, understand business issues, and exhibit financial stewardship;
- Change Leadership: Inspires change by challenging the status quo, generating support, and executing improvement projects to achieve business outcomes; and
- Leading Effective Teams: Enables performance excellence through effective structure, delegation, and motivation.
Company Overview
Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.
Nearly 3 billion people — roughly one-third of the global population — live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.
The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.
Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.
We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to non-discriminatory, equal employment opportunities benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various experiences, ideas, and perspectives are brought to the table.
Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.
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Apache Statement on Hiring
To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.