Position Description:
Would you like to have a career with a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic mining company? We have an exciting opportunity for you!
Barrick has an opening for a Director, ESG Performance. The Director, ESG Performance is a senior leader responsible for operationalizing the company’s ESG strategy across environmental, social, and human rights domains. The role ensures that ESG performance is measurable, consistent, and externally defensible, with particular accountability for data integrity, disclosures, standards alignment, and assurance.
Working in close partnership with the VP Sustainability, the Director translates strategy into execution by building robust systems, strengthening risk visibility, and ensuring readiness for investor scrutiny, ratings assessments, and third-party verification. The role requires a balance of strategic ESG leadership and applied technical understanding of environmental and social performance disciplines (e.g., water management, biodiversity, closure, resettlement), enabling effective oversight and credible engagement with operational teams.
At Barrick, our vision is to be the world’s most valued gold mining business by finding, developing, and operating the best assets with the best people. We are committed to a safe work environment sending every person home safe and healthy every day and leaving a sustainable legacy on our host communities.
Responsibilities:
- Operationalize and evolve the enterprise ESG strategy, integrating environmental performance, social performance, and human rights into corporate objectives and decision-making.
- Embed ESG into enterprise risk management, project development, permitting, and operations, ensuring alignment with long-term value creation.
- Provide technical oversight and guidance on key environmental and social performance areas (e.g., water stewardship, biodiversity, mine closure, resettlement), ensuring alignment between site-level practices and enterprise ESG expectations.
- Establish and maintain corporate standards for environmental management, social performance, and human rights due diligence, aligned with leading frameworks (e.g. ICMM, WGC, TSM, CMSI, UNGC, VPSHR, IFC, SASB, GRI, TCFD, SEC climate requirements).
- Oversee implementation and performance of site-level environmental and social management systems, applying sufficient technical understanding to challenge assumptions, validate performance, and drive improvement.
- Monitor and escalate material environmental and social risks (e.g., water, biodiversity, closure, community impacts, workforce risks) to executive leadership.
- Lead the company’s human rights framework, including risk identification, due diligence, mitigation, and disclosure across operations.
- Direct alignment with global mining standards and oversee internal and external assurance, including third-party audits, certifications, and audit readiness.
- Oversee ESG data governance and lead preparation of sustainability reporting and climate disclosures, ensuring accuracy, defensibility, and auditability.
- Manage engagement with ESG rating agencies (e.g. MSCI, Sustainalytics, ISS, S&P Global) and investors, translating performance into clear, credible external positioning.
- Maintain enterprise frameworks for stakeholder engagement, social risk assessment, and conflict mitigation, including oversight of high-risk issues and reputational impacts.
Build organizational capability through systems, metrics, and training, strengthening integration across environmental, social, permitting, and operational teams.
Qualifications:
Technical Requirements
- Degree in Sustainability, Public Policy, Environmental Management, Social Sciences, or related field required
- 8+ years in ESG, sustainability, or social performance roles within or associated with the mining industry preferred
- Deep experience with global reporting frameworks and ESG ratings required
- Experience with IFC/World Bank standards preferred
- Experience presenting to executive leadership or board-level committees preferred
Leadership Requirements
- Strong strategic and reputational risk awareness required
- Ability to integrate environmental, social, and governance dimensions cohesively preferred
- High emotional intelligence and stakeholder diplomacy preferred
- Executive communication skills preferred
- Strong systems thinking and cross-functional collaboration preferred
Country Specific Requirements
Eligible to live and work in the United States required
Fluent in reading and writing, in English language preferred
Fluent in reading and writing, in Spanish language preferred
Travel Requirements
Estimated 25–40% travel required
Periodic site visits to operating assets and development projects required
Participation in high-sensitivity community or government meetings required
Occasional travel for investor meetings, industry forums, and ratings agency engagement required
What We Can Offer You
- A comprehensive compensation package including a competitive medical, dental, and vision plan with national provider networks, a 401k retirement plan with employer contribution, paid time off, company-sponsored medical clinics, company match share purchase program, and much more!
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
- Opportunities to grow and learn with the industry colleagues are endless.
- Access to a variety of career opportunities across the organization.
Barrick is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Thank you for your application, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
