Public Affairs & Regulatory Affairs Manager August 3, 2026 View offer →

Calan; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 320,000 - 560,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remuneration package

Board interaction

Warsaw base

Travel to Group HQ

Job summary

Calan, an international renewable energy group, seeks a senior public affairs professional to shape the policy environment for Poland. You will be the company’s leading voice with administration, regulators and industry, and architect a public affairs function that does not yet exist.

Based in Warsaw with travel to group leadership abroad, you will develop regulatory strategy, manage negotiations, and build a high-level network across central and local authorities to accelerate grid connections

Qualifications

• Degree in law, public administration, political science, international relations or energy; a postgraduate qualification is welcome.
• At least 7 years in public affairs, government relations or regulation, preferably in energy or infrastructure.
• Track record of creating or heading such a function, including line management.
• A real senior-level network across Polish central and/or local administration.
• At ease inside an international structure reporting to a foreign owner.
• Command of how Polish legislation is made and how the energy market is regulated - renewables, grid, capacity.
• Working knowledge of EU energy and climate policy and how it lands on the domestic market.
• Familiarity with moving a renewable project from siting to grid connection, and what delays cost.
• Ability to drive an agenda rather than react to one, and to hand a Board a recommendation rather than a legal summary.
• Strong negotiator and public speaker; political judgement and discretion in equal measure.
• Comfortable working autonomously in a matrix organisation while staying close to Group leadership.
• Polish at native level, English at C1 minimum; a further European language welcome.

Responsibilities

• Setting the regulatory and advocacy agenda for Poland, with priorities agreed at Board level.
• Following national law-making on renewables - support schemes, siting rules for wind, energy law, storage and grid access - and reading it against the project pipeline.
• Turning EU energy and climate legislation into practical consequences for the Polish portfolio.
• Opening and holding senior doors: ministries, the energy regulator, the grid operator, municipalities hosting investments.
• Speaking for the company in consultations, working groups and meetings with decision-makers.
• Backing the development and permitting teams wherever local administration becomes the bottleneck.
• Taking leading positions in sector associations and chambers of commerce, and carrying Polish priorities into European industry bodies through Group structures.
• Pushing priority topics forward - grid access, faster environmental procedures - and making the company a name that is listened to on them.
• Steering public positioning, media statements on regulatory matters and responses to public consultations, together with the communications function.
• Leading the dialogue with communities around investment sites, personally where a case is sensitive.
• Preparing briefing notes, position papers and decision material for the Management Board and for Group leadership abroad.
• Briefing the Board on regulatory risk and opportunity affecting timelines, valuations and returns, and feeding that analysis into financing and transaction processes.
• Building the function itself - first the structure, then the team.

Job description

Our client - an international renewable energy group with a fast-expanding portfolio of onshore wind, solar PV and battery storage projects in Poland, backed by strong institutional shareholders.

In this market the rules are still being written, and every decision on grid access, siting or permitting moves a project’s timeline and its value. We are looking for a senior professional to shape that environment on our client’s behalf: the company’s leading voice with administration, regulators and the industry, advisor to the Management Board, and architect of a public affairs function that does not yet exist.

Responsibilities

• Setting the regulatory and advocacy agenda for Poland, with priorities agreed at Board level.
• Following national law-making on renewables - support schemes, siting rules for wind, energy law, storage and grid access - and reading it against the project pipeline.
• Turning EU energy and climate legislation into practical consequences for the Polish portfolio.
• Opening and holding senior doors: ministries, the energy regulator, the grid operator, municipalities hosting investments.
• Speaking for the company in consultations, working groups and meetings with decision-makers.
• Backing the development and permitting teams wherever local administration becomes the bottleneck.
• Taking leading positions in sector associations and chambers of commerce, and carrying Polish priorities into European industry bodies through Group structures.
• Pushing priority topics forward - grid access, faster environmental procedures - and making the company a name that is listened to on them.
• Steering public positioning, media statements on regulatory matters and responses to public consultations, together with the communications function.
• Leading the dialogue with communities around investment sites, personally where a case is sensitive.
• Preparing briefing notes, position papers and decision material for the Management Board and for Group leadership abroad.
• Briefing the Board on regulatory risk and opportunity affecting timelines, valuations and returns, and feeding that analysis into financing and transaction processes.
• Building the function itself - first the structure, then the team.

Requirements

• Degree in law, public administration, political science, international relations or energy; a postgraduate qualification is welcome.
• At least 7 years in public affairs, government relations or regulation, preferably in energy or infrastructure.
• Track record of creating or heading such a function, including line management.
• A real senior-level network across Polish central and/or local administration.
• At ease inside an international structure reporting to a foreign owner.
• Command of how Polish legislation is made and how the energy market is regulated - renewables, grid, capacity.
• Working knowledge of EU energy and climate policy and of how it lands on the domestic market.
• Familiarity with what it takes to move a renewable project from siting to grid connection, and what each delay costs.
• Ability to drive an agenda rather than react to one, and to hand a Board a recommendation rather than a legal summary.
• Strong negotiator and public speaker; political judgement and discretion in equal measure.
• Comfortable working autonomously in a matrix organisation while staying close to Group leadership.
• Polish at native level, English at C1 minimum; a further European language welcome.

We offer

• A mandate to influence the market, not merely to observe it.
• A seat on the extended management team, with a direct line to the Board and to Group leadership abroad.
• Freedom to design the function and grow a team as the pipeline expands.
• Attractive remuneration, terms agreed individually; B2B or employment contract, full or part time.
• A Warsaw base, with travel to project regions and to Group headquarters in Western Europe.
• Work that visibly advances the energy transition in one of Europe’s most dynamic renewable markets.