Lead Spec: Sustainability at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• To provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist corporate citizenship and sustainability expertise and deliverables to stakeholders

Minimum Experience

• 5 - 8 years experience in a similar environment, of which 2 - 3 years at specialist level

Critical Job

• Knowledge of key Sustainability, Stakeholder Management and Business Ethics frameworks for corporate accountability reporting and management
• Experience in production of Sustainability, Stakeholder Management and Business Ethics corporate reporting
• Ability to communicate complex/esoteric Sustainability and Business Ethics concepts simply and accurately

Minimum Qualifications

• Ethics Officer certification
• Bachelors Degree in Accounting/ Economics or Environmental Science Qualification

Outputs

• Co-ordination of business unit inputs-, external consultant and advisory entity inputs and audits for, and production of role-related reports and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
• Co-ordination and production of awareness and other campaigns and events related to Group sustainability and ethics programme management for internal and external stakeholders.
• Compliance and Budgeting management.
• Strategy planning, relationship management and policy development for sustainability and stakeholder management.

Process

• Determine resource allocation priorities and deployment necessary to support the effective integration of processes.
• Advise on and ensure the development and implementation of area specific methodologies and frameworks; ensuring appropriate implementation and use.
• Advise on the alignment and application of area specific practices and integrated processes across functional areas to ensure value chain integrity.
• Support and inform the process of building and sustaining communication infrastructure and framework (channels and media) to enable bus. objectives delivery.
• Quality assure all communication media and content to identify trends to ensure improved and consistent delivery, relevance and accuracy.
• Identify and advise on the effective development, activation and improvement of key messages through relevant communication platforms.
• Support and inform the process of building and sustaining communication and marketing infrastructure and framework to enable bus. objectives delivery.
• Keep abreast of changes and new legislation and developments within industries that may affect area of specialisation.
• Accountable for contributing to strategy enablement and implementation and delivery optimisation across an internal value chain, through best practice development and implementation.
• Draw on own technical and/or professional knowledge and experience to proactively develop alternatives and identify optimal best practice solutions for tactical problems.
• Plan to deliver work outputs related to a service or operational area, Manages interdependent functional activities, and directs best-practice priorities, standards and procedures to ensure efficiency within area of specialisation.

Customer

• Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.

Finance

• Implement and monitor financial controls, management of costs and corporate governance throughout the area of specialisation.

Learning and Growth

• Contribute positively to human capability improvement, related to knowledge optimisation and associated with area of specialisation.

Governance

• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice and/or tactical area to identify and manage risk exposure liability related to the area of specialisation.