Public Policy Senior Manager Connectivity Space Sub-Saharan Africa International Public Policy

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global technology company is looking for an International Public Policy Manager to support advocacy and outreach for policy initiatives in the telecommunications space. This role involves managing campaigns with senior policymakers and representing the company at various events. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree, relevant experience in regulatory policy, and strong communication skills. Opportunities exist for domestic and international travel, contributing to impactful policy changes.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in international legislative and regulatory policy process.
• Experience in advocacy and persuasive communication.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Drive campaigns and manage engagement with policymakers.
• Represent Amazon at conferences and meetings.
• Enhance advocacy on telecoms and space-related policy issues.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Political acumen

Advocacy

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Advanced degree in relevant field

Job description

Work hard and make history with Amazons International Public Policy and Government Affairs Team. The International Public Policy Manager will join a dynamic team that works across Europe Middle East Africa India and Asia Pacific in support of Amazons global consumer and digital businesses. Like our business interests our policy issues are broad forwardthinking and driven by what is best for our customers. The International Public Policy team works with a wide range of national local and supranational policymakers industry organizations and nongovernmental organizations across policy issues spanning the consumer and commercial environment including but not limited to digital technology consumer affairs connectivity economic development ecommerce exports logistics devices and tax.

This role will support advocacy and outreach to policymakers for Project Kuiper Amazons initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites that will provide lowlatency highspeed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

Key job responsibilities

• The Senior Manager will work closely with crossfunctional Kuiper teams including Regulatory Business and Legal to drive campaigns and manage senior policymaker engagement across SubSaharan Africa including defining strategy executing advocacy campaigns and managing engagement with multilateral and regional organizations as appropriate.
• The Senior Manager will communicate with consultants and trade associations and represent the company at conferences and meetings.
• The Senior Manager will also be able to immediately and directly enhance Amazons advocacy on a broad range of telecoms and spacerelated policy issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a relevant field
• Relevant experience dealing with the international legislative and regulatory policy process preferable within the telecoms connectivity space or technology industries.
• Relevant experience in advocacy and using spoken and written arguments to persuade and inform.
• Advanced degree in relevant field.
• Availability to travel domestically and internationally as appropriate.
• Ability to communicate clearly concisely and accurately (written and oral).
• Strong knowledge of connectivity/telecoms spectrum space or other regulated industry policy issues.
• Able to demonstrate experience through previous work within companies consultancies trade associations the government or equivalent organizations.
• Able to demonstrate relevant regional experience across multiple countries in SubSaharan Africa.>
• Sets a course in the face of ambiguity to deliver independently asking the right questions clearing blockers and escalating appropriately. Selfstarter who can take general direction and produce specific results.
• Strong interpersonal skills and highly collaborative.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively and comfortably interact at all corporate and political levels.
• Ability to work with technical and specialized teams to distill factual relevant and easily understandable talking points and other messaging and persuasively deliver it to relevant audiences.
• Maintains highest personal levels of ethical conduct confidentiality and integrity with strongest professional reputation in the industry.
• Ability to identify key technical aspects pertaining to corporate operations in legislative and regulatory proposals understand business implications and synthesize for internal and external customers.
• Ability to influence negotiate with and effectively persuade others. Must be flexible and demonstrate strong judgment / decisionmaking skills and political acumen and awareness.
• Ability to think critically process data from multiple sources forecast potential scenarios prioritize based on probability and desired outcome and recommend a best course of action.

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