About the Role
Play a crucial role in managing the relationship interactions between the organization, governmental entities and security authorities to support e& business and mitigate any risks. This position typically involves a combination of strategic planning and operations management to meet his targets and to influence the key stakeholders in the government sector to achieve the organization's goals.
Responsibilities
Advocacy & Representation:
- Represent the organization's interest in legislative, regulatory and public policy matters.
- Build / maintain relationships with his assigned government officials, legislators, regulatory agencies and other key stakeholders.
- Serve as the organization's primary point of contract for government relations in addition to providing advices to government affairs director and internal stakeholders.
- Solve complex and often sensitive issues that may arise between the organization and government entities. This includes crisis management, public relations, and managing communications to mitigate any negative impacts on the organization.
- Stop any decree may impact negatively on the organization or the industry.
Strategy Management:
- Implement the government affairs annual strategy in alignment with the company annual and long-term strategies in the government sector to gain benefits to the organization.
- Participate in developing Government Affairs annual strategy.
- Implement any changes occurring to the Government Affairs annual strategy / objectives / KPIs on quarterly basis and determine the potential risk / impact on the company and the industry and manage a course of actions.
- Implement direct engagement programs with the decision-making process with different government authorities and agencies while expanding partnerships with the government sector to add values to the business and the organization.
Operations Management:
- Manage a team to build strategic relationships with his assigned governmental entities to support e& business and to open new opportunities / partnerships with the government sector.
- Manage a team to get the necessary permits and approvals to implement the fiber cables projects all over Egypt (such as Ras El-Hekma -Gated communities -Monorail) according to 5G license.
- Responsible on all strategic projects with the army by managing a team to get all military approvals, coordinate with the different military branches during the implementation to pave the way for the implementation.
- Manage a team to sign / renew sites contracts / protocols with his assigned governmental entities.
- Mitigate the risk on the existing sites by managing a team to legalize the situation on the existing sites built with risk all over Egypt.
- Manage a team to rectify and get NTRA certificates for the new and existing sites all over Egypt (the validity of the certificate is two years and then we have to renew it).
- Manage a team to build a strong relationship with the security authority to support e& business all over Egypt and to get the security approvals on e& , NOL and EgyNet annually to participate in all projects managed by the army and finally to ensure the safety of e& sites,flagships and premises.
- Manage a team to get the need permit for green field sites all over Egypt from NTRA, ministry of agriculture and finally cabinet ministers.
- Responsible on dealing with New Capital City (as a big mega project) by signing the agreements / contracts, getting the need approvals on all e& projects, sites, deals, protocols, and to deliver the due payments on the proper time and prepare a progress report on quarterly basis for the top management team.
- Represent e& in all auctions related the sites / deals / protocols and manage it in a way to ensure more added values for the organization.
- Manage a team to support HR & Administration departments by getting / renewing the work permits for foreigner experts in e& and its subsidiaries, facilitating / renewing the permits and approvals on e& premises.
- Reconcile with the government sector in case of any legal cases raised against e&, CEO and the chairman by stopping any legal action taken by the governmental entities.
- Ensure network availability by granting the access permits for all technical teams to enter the governmental entities all over Egypt 24/7 through Access Permits Team.
- Get all approvals, permits and licenses requested by the government sector for e& new flagships, dealers and franchises in governmental entities and universities.
- Support EBU team to open new accounts / opportunities in the government sector.
Budget Management:
- Manage Government Affairs assigned budget needed for all activities managed by his department.
- Monitor actual spending and ensure its matching with the planned budget.
- Monitor the technical budget assigned for related activities on monthly basis and provide any needed justification to the changes occurring to the planned budget to Government Affairs director.
- Initiate all business cases / memos related to his assigned SOW (scope of work).
Customers Management:
- Solve all VIPs customers complaints after coordinating with the relevant departments such as technical, consumers and EBU departments.
- Handle all network coverage complaints sent by NTRA after coordinating with the technical team.
- Manage all network coverage complaints requested by the governmental entities after studying it internally to ensure its profitability.
Chairman's Office Management:
- Arrange all Chairman's meetings with external stakeholders, attend the meetings, collect all MOMs and send it to all concerned parties in e&, follow up on the needed actions to be done on the proper time and finally update the chairman.
- Responsible on all chairman's correspondences related to e& and follow up on the needed actions with different departments in e&.
- Prepare a quarterly report to update the chairman with any new decrees or political changes may impact on the organization or the industry.
Qualifications
- Aware with all laws / regulations related to industry and the business.
- Excellent understanding of governmental legislatives and permitting processes.
- Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships with diverse stakeholders.
- Proficiency in utilizing various communication channels, including social media, to effectively engage with the public.
- Legislative and Regulatory Knowledge.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and metrics to measure the effectiveness of his department.
- Understand project management techniques.
- Ability to develop financial plans and manage resources.
- Ability to interact and with key stakeholders in the government sector on high level.
- Has the ability to handle multi-tasks with quick decisions making skills.
- High leadership capabilities.
- High presentation skills.
- Advanced negotiations skills
- Lobbying skills.
- A wide degree of creativity and innovation.
Desirable Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Political Science and/or Law, with a technical background is preferred.
- 10+ years of experience in dealing with the government sector.
