Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia Plc is a company supporting Ethiopia’s digital transformation. As a member of the Vodacom family, we have a wealth of experience connecting over 334 million people globally and over 180 million people in Africa across our network. We look forward to partnering with Ethiopians as we build a new network in Ethiopia.

 We are setting the groundwork in readiness for the launch of our services next year and are looking to work with purpose-led teams that put the community at the heart of service.

 Safaricom Ethiopia is offering a wide range of careers, whether you’re looking to join our technology, commercial or corporate teams. If you would like a challenge and the promise of a digital future for the people of Ethiopia, we are looking for you.

We are pleased to announce the following vacancy for EHOD -Sustainability and Foundation within External Affairs Function in Ethiopia. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below:

Detailed Description 

Reporting to the Chief External Affairs Officer, the position holder will be responsible for sustainability, corporate responsibility and foundation strategy, activities and programmes to enable the company to achieve its commercial strategy and pro-actively mitigate risks for the commercial launch and operations of the company, contributing to Digital Ethiopia objectives of the country.

 Job Responsibilities 

• Develop and advise the business on the evolution of Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility and Foundation policy and the best practice for the Company
• Proactively builds Company knowledge to enhance cross functional and cross market relationships in order to influence senior internal stakeholders 
• Responsibility and Foundation Strategy with internal senior stake holders beyond the function contributing to the commercial interests of the Company.
• Will occasionally acts as an ambassador for Company externally, improving the external understanding of Company’s Corporate responsibility and Foundation objectives (this is not the primary focus of the role);
• Responsibility for planning the teams’ execution of programmes across corporate behavior, Foundation and social investment. 
• Ensure that the sustainability initiatives are implemented across the company
• Coordination of the cross functional sustainability teams plans, actions, data collection and reports
• Track and ensure that the sustainability Action plans are implemented across the business, and provide course correction as may be required
• Positioning of Company’s sustainability portfolio locally and globally
• Contribution and participation in sustainability fora to shape thought leadership
• Coordination of inputs for the Annual report to society
• Management of sustainability issues and initiatives across the business under the following banners
• Sustainability reporting
• Sustainability action planning
• Sustainability team management
• Contribution to thought leadership
• Development and management of Company’s Social policy and Strategy

Foundation

• Responsible for the management of the foundation programmes/projects and partnerships of the Company,
• Provides programmatic support and develops and nurtures strategic partnerships to successfully deliver community-based projects and partnerships countrywide 
• Manage the development of a quality and solid evidence-base of the impact and efficiency of the Foundations community investments
• Manage and build relationships with external partners and stakeholders across a wide range of thematic and development areas. I
• Identify and implement opportunities for Programme improvement and efficiencies within the Foundations  

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

Business Competencies:

Working with Others

• Consciously takes steps to make the most of every conversation/interaction
• Identifies people’s needs, interests and motives to be able to influence the decisions they make
• Communicates simply to excite and engage people
• Pro-actively adapts own style and approach to build rapport, and work with others more effectively
• Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks

Operational Excellence

• Targets effort and resources on high-value, high impact activity 
• Focuses on achieving maximum performance and driving continuous improvement
• Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally and end-to-end
• Uses knowledge of products, technology, process, systems and policy to solve problems

Creativity and Innovation

• Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems
• Takes risks and pushes what is possible
• Experiments with unorthodox approaches

Business Know how

• Uses data and research to make decisions that are competitively and financially robust
• Balances current and future needs
• Thinks and acts like an owner of the business
• Acts in line with legal, regulatory, professional and ethical standards

Working with Change

• Responds flexibly to changing situations
• Manages the business and people aspects of change to drive performance

Project and Programme Management

• Defines scope and deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality and business benefit
• Schedules activity and identifies resource needs, dependencies and synergies 
• Evaluates progress, mitigates risks and addresses issues

Functional Competencies:

Pro-active external communications, engagement, and campaigns strategy

• Deep understanding of political and external environment. Ability to analyse, design, develop, and deliver of pro-active external strategy, communications narratives (including social media), stakeholder mapping and campaigns to engage and influence external stakeholders to secure outcomes for company.

International Institutions/ Relations

• To assist with pro-active external strategy and campaigns. Understand workings of the UK, European Union, US Government and Chinese Government. Understand workings and levers of International law/sanctions/trade/foreign investor protection.

Understand Telecoms products and services, platforms         

• Understand fundamentals of telecoms, how our products and services work (e.g. IoT) to facilitate EA input to product design and strategy.
• Economics in telecoms Economic principles behind telecommunications business models and market structure
• Competition law  Competition law principles and strategy in telecommunications business models and markets

Job Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Natural Resource Sciences, Environmental studies.
• A postgraduate degree, diploma or certificates in courses in environmental matters within a highly technical industry will be an added advantage.
• A registered lead environmental expert with Ethiopian agencies.
• Excellent knowledge of Environmental regulations and provisions of the EMCA 1999;
• At least 5 years’ experience in the environmental compliance sector for the manufacturing, construction or ICT sector or large-scale industry;
• At least 3 years of process and people management experience;
• Excellent working knowledge of ICT regulatory environment
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills

How to Apply

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on CLICK HERE