Social Investment Senior Advisor

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Job Family Group:

Corporate Relations

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

January 2, 2026

Business Unit:

CoS and Corporate Relations

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What's the role

You will be a key player in our Societal Impact and Energy Transition program team in Shell Brasil's Corporate Relations team. One of our objectives is to create a positive presence and legacy in the communities and countries in which we operate and to be a trusted and responsible neighbour. We do this by engaging with our communities, identifying and mitigating the social impacts of our operations, and delivering benefits through social investment.
You will be working closely with the Societal Impact and Energy Transition Program Manager and business colleagues in the country, as well as the regional and global Social Performance Centre of Excellence in Shell.

What you'll be doing

As the Social Investment Senior Advisor, your main priorities will include:

• Developing and implementing a robust social investment strategy for Shell in Brazil that is aligned with our business objectives in-country, Shell's Group social investment strategy and requirements, and the social context of our communities

• Identifying and designing meaningful social investment programmes in line with the strategy

• Selecting and managing delivery partners to help us implement our social investment programmes

• Driving implementation of the social investment programmes, with clear oversight and regular review of performance against goals and targets

• Developing and executing monitoring, evaluation, and learning plans for our social investment programmes, jointly with our delivery partners

• Undertaking social baseline and evaluation studies as needed to help inform and continuously improve social investment programmes

• Developing and implementing impact-led communication plans for internal and external stakeholders

• Engaging leaders to create a shared vision and internal alignment on Shell Brazil social investment objectives and activities

• Representing Shell externally and engaging with a broad range of stakeholders including communities, government, joint venture partners, civil society organisations, among others

• Proactively identifying and managing risks to the social investment programmes, and identifying continuous improvement opportunities to ensure the programmes remain externally relevant, impactful, and efficient

• Developing and coordinating the disaster response plans for supporting communities where needed

• Ensuring compliance with Shell's business principles, ethics, and compliance standards

• Ensuring budget and activity planning and tracking progress, and compliance with Shell's global reporting requirements for social investment spend and outcomes

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in Brazil on a full-time basis for anyone other than the current employer.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field

• 15+ years of experience with qualifications relevant to social development

• Significant experience and proven track record in designing and delivering social development programmes, in particular related to STEM skills, enterprise development, and livelihood programmes

• Experience working with corporates in designing and delivering social programmes with a good understanding of business processes and influencing senior business leaders

• Extensive external network in the development sector to help create strong collaborations and partnerships

• Experience managing external delivery partners

• Experience in developing monitoring, evaluation, and learning frameworks; measuring and reporting impacts

• Strategic and critical thinking skills to design and develop new programmes, and the ability to troubleshoot and solve problems

• Strong communication (written and verbal), presentation, and facilitation skills; business fluency in English is a minimum requirement

• Excellent collaboration, stakeholder influencing, and management skills across organizational boundaries and different levels of seniority, without direct authority

• Ability to uphold high-quality standards, anticipate and manage risks

• Excellent project/programme management skills

• Solid team leadership skills

• Learner Mindset – role model curiosity and reflection, and encourage people to learn from mistakes and successes

• Maximise performance – Integrate and collaborate across boundaries to maximise commercial value for the organisation as a whole

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You'll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You'll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world's most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Shell in Brazil

Who We Are

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 103,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.

Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.

Our approach

Shell's strategy is to deliver more value with less emissions as we work to become a net-zero emissions business by 2050.

As we navigate the energy transition through the next decade, we will leverage our global footprint, the trust in our brand, and our innovation and technology capabilities to be the energy company that customers and countries choose to be their partner. We are positioning Shell to become the investment case and partner of choice through the energy transition.

Our values

At Shell, we share a set of core values – honesty, integrity and respect for people – which underpin all the work we do. The Shell General Business Principles, Code of Conduct and Ethics and Compliance Manual help everyone at Shell act in line with these values and comply with relevant laws and regulations.

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