Senior Associate, Public Affairs

Senior Associate Public Affairs - Sydney Australia

The Opportunity

As Teneo continues to grow its presence in Australia we are seeking a Senior Associate with a strong background in corporate and public affairs to join our Strategy and Communications team based in Sydney.

This role focuses on advising clients on public affairs policy regulatory engagement and stakeholder strategy particularly where business objectives intersect with government policy regulatory change and broader geopolitical dynamics. Australia has a highly visible fastmoving environment requiring strong judgement political and regulatory literacy and the ability to advise senior leaders through complex and sensitive situations.

A Senior Associate at Teneo is responsible for delivering consistently highquality client work and plays a pivotal role in managing daytoday account activity. You will be expected to anticipate client needs identify emerging risks and opportunities and ensure that work is delivered to agreed standards and timelines. You will also contribute to the development of junior team members through onthejob coaching and active participation in a collaborative highperformance team environment.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate within Teneos Strategy and Communications team in Australia your role will include:

Public affairs and policy advisory

• Conduct research and analysis to understand market geopolitical and/ or business trends. Prepare policy papers policy response statements and points-of-view on the relevant policies.
• Support clients in anticipating and responding to political regulatory and stakeholder developments that may impact business operations or reputation.
• Contribute to stakeholder mapping policy analysis and engagement strategies aligned to client objectives.

Stakeholder issues strategy and execution

• Support the development of integrated stakeholder engagement strategies across government regulators industry bodies and other relevant audiences.
• Support the development of public affairs strategies including research policy analysis and scenario planning.
• Develop a network of relevant external stakeholders across government industry media and industry/trade associations. This includes supporting client leads on engagement with state and federal government both at political and bureaucratic levels to drive the growth of Teneos government relations function in Australia.

Narrative

• Support development of narratives and messaging that support public affairs objectives including briefing materials position papers executive talking points and thought leadership.
• Work with communications specialists to ensure alignment between public affairs strategy and broader reputation management efforts.

Business development

• Support leadership in identifying and developing new public affairs opportunities.
• Contribute to proposals pitch materials and client meetings.

Client and team leadership

• Support workstreams and deliverables across public affairsled accounts ensuring highquality execution and timely delivery.
• Mentor and support Consultants and Associates contributing to their development in public affairs advisory work.

In addition you will be expected to:

• Work as a core member of integrated client teams supporting public affairs and policy advisory engagements across Australia and the region.
• Help ensure consistently high standards of delivery by supporting project coordination research and quality assurance.
• Contribute ideas and analysis that inform client strategies drawing on policy regulatory and stakeholder insights.
• Engage actively with the wider Teneo team to build skills share knowledge and support the firms public affairs work across Asia Pacific.

Requirements

• 4 6 years of relevant experience in public affairs policy advisory corporate affairs or related roles ideally within a consultancy or professional services environment.
• Strong understanding of Australias political regulatory and stakeholder environment with awareness of regional and global dynamics.
• Have a strong interest in business public policy geopolitics macroeconomic/finance events and a desire to work across the breadth of Teneos Strategy and Communications service offering.
• Strong ability to grasp clients business objectives and provide strategic insight on the implications risks and opportunities arising from key developments.
• Possessing excellent verbal and written skills in English.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills including proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel.
• Possessing a strategic and entrepreneurial spirit can-do attitude and being a team player is essential.
• Bachelors degree in public policy political science international relations law economics communications or a related discipline; a postgraduate qualification is an advantage.

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 as well as other corporations financial institutions and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications investor relations financial transactions and restructuring management consulting physical and cyber risk organisational design board and executive search geopolitics and government affairs corporate governance ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1800 employees located in 42 offices around the world.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Teneo is an equal opportunity employer and promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace. Teneo considers all applicants without regard to race colour religion creed national origin age sex marital status ancestry disability gender identity genetic information or sexual orientation or any other status protected by applicable law.