Regulatory & Policy Lead (107729) at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Lead regulatory & policy team that drives regulatory and policy requests and approvals from government
• Develop strategy to minimise regulatory and policy risk and to help shape long-term national level green H2 policy
• Provide SVP Global Markets H2 Development, Project Director, and JV leadership team with timely information and materials for effective decision making
• Build, scale, and develop regulatory & policy team and instill effective ways of working
• Specify regulatory & policy communication plan
• Prepare, submit and secure EIA consent, approvals, and licenses
• Demonstrate knowledge on how to secure policies and incentives from government

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

Governance 

• Provide weekly report to SVP Global Markets H2 Development / Project Director on project status, key decisions, and roadblocks
• Scale and capacitate the regulatory & policy team with the right skills and capabilities
• Provide weekly or bi-weekly report to regulatory & policy track sub-committee of Special Purpose Vehicle / Joint Venture 
• Have astute understanding of public policy and regulatory environment as well as key stakeholders 
• Coordinate across the mega projects to develop and implement positioning and engagement strategies
• Lead external advocacy efforts, such as outreach programs, partnerships and initiatives in support of the business objectives

Incubation 

• Identify business case levers e.g. tax, technical levers
• Finalise and document business case for internal FID approval
• Set up commercial model and carry out contracting and tendering / procurement with H2 value-chain partners (excl. RES)
• Prepare recruitment strategy for O&M
• Manage interfaces in SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle); 

Formal Education

• Master’s degree in related filed

Min Experience

• 12+ years of relevant policy and regulation experience
• Track record in Regulatory & Policy delivery
• Keen working understanding of policy-making processes and government relations
• Experience collaborating with governments, ministries, and local communities
• Public speaking experience
• Ability to concurrently address numerous and wide-ranging issues, deal effectively with broad range of public policy matters
• Existing relationships with governments and ministries in Southern Africa would be a plus

Certification & Professional Membership

• None

Competencies

• Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics
• Business Acumen: 
• Strategic thinker – ability to define how to minimise regulatory & policy risk and shape long-term national level policy to enable project development
• Strong presence – comes across as credible & able to build rel. with external stakeholders
• Written communications & influencing skills – ability to draft and communicate compelling narratives to define need for govt. incentives 
• Team leadership – identify skills / resources reqd. and coach resources to develop over time   Organisational effectiveness – ability to work across all elements of the project
• Collaboration: Ability to collaborate with different teams across functions to achieve project goals.
• Compliance: Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.
• Conflict Management: Ability to manage conflict, disharmony and strife among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
• Continuous Process Improvement: The methodology followed for increasing the effectiveness and/or efficiency of a business process, often through automation.
• Customer Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs.
• Data Management: Knowledgeable of the theory, purpose, architecture and design of the management, administration and relationships of the organization's data.
• Decision Making: Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Execution capability: The underlying ability to execute a strategy/project or day to day work
• Facilitation: The means of expediting a process or operation quickly and efficiently.  Particular focus is on meetings, but can include other processes such as the delivery of products and services where others are involved and their participation is critical to success.
• Financial Management: Demonstrated knowledge and application of Financial Management, the strategic and functional management of the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way the company's finances are directed, administered, and controlled.
• Integration: The consolidated view with various parts, circumstances, legislation, landscapes or aspects linked or coordinated.
• Leading change: Requires creating experiences for people that reveal new possibilities, while uniting them to drive strategies that harness the resources to win in the marketplace. It requires optimizing the culture of an organization while making investments to drive business growth – simultaneously
• Negotiating: The ability to compromise in a cooperative effort to reach mutually satisfactory conclusions and results.
• Partnering: The development and perpetuation of successful and mutually-beneficial relationships where customers and others become business partners with common goals, positive attitudes, cooperative work styles, open communications and team spirit.
• Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.
• People Leadership: Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation. Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
• People Management: The interaction, communication, relationships and dealings with staff members, and the style in which those interactions take place. It includes the development of employees and work places that are inclusive.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Project Management: The process of planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a well defined objective, usually within constraints of time, resources, and cost.
• Relationship Management: The conscious aim to develop and manage long-term and/or trusting relationships with internal or external customers, distributors, suppliers, or other parties in an environment which can include marketing, selling, servicing and other areas where a relationship is crucial to on-going success.  At a senior level, it includes C-level relationships with senior management such as CEO [Chief Executive Officer], CIO [Chief Information Officer], and CFO [Chief Financial Officer].
• Reporting: The ability to access information from databases, forms, and other sources, and prepare reports according to requirements.
• Risk Management: The process of measuring, or assessing risk and then developing strategies to manage the risk.  Strategies employed may include transferring the risk to another party, avoiding the risk, reducing the negative effect of the risk, and accepting some or all of the consequences of a particular risk.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking  feedback and self-correcting
• Situational Leadership: The ability to effectively deal with a variety of situations and circumstances that arise unexpectedly and requiring management action.
• Total Quality Management: The strategy for continuously improving the quality of process output, based on five fundamental principles of Customer Focus, Continuous Improvement, Measurement, Total Involvement and Systematic Support.
• Verbal Communications: Any exchange of words, either written or spoken, used to transmit information
• Written Communications: Sending of messages, orders or instructions in writing through letters, circulars, manuals, reports, telegrams, office memos, bulletins, etc. It is a formal method of communication and is less flexible

Closing Date: 5th, April 2022