Director, Government Relations and Public Affairs

The role supports the Presidents effort to oversee all aspects of the Companys strategy advocacy funding regulatory clearance coalitions communications and community engagement as one integrated effort rather than running any single department.

Core Responsibilities

1. Develop Strategic Annual Plans

• Translate the Companys operating and business priorities into a prioritized government agenda ranked by impact urgency feasibility and return drawing the facts behind each position from the legal finance engineering operations and communications teams.
• Develop the path for each priority legislation regulation funding coalition or local action on an annual basis with the President and external consultants.
• Monitor legislation regulations budgets agendas hearings and the Companys key relationships ensuring a deep understanding of the agencies and public officials impacting the Companys initiatives.
• Identify and surface emerging risks alerting leadership when proactive action is needed.

2. Advocacy Government Relationships and Coalitions

• Build and sustain the relationships that carry the Companys standing with officials agencies regulators and relevant government agencies.
• Educate officials on the Companys operations and public benefit secure support for target legislation funding and permits and oppose or amend what threatens its operations finances or community standing.
• Mobilize third-party support: recruit aligned cities counties agencies business labor environmental and community partners into coalitions joint letters and project tours and address opponents early.
• Identify public funding matched to the Companys capital infrastructure and program needs and package each project around need cost public benefit urgency and readiness.

3. Regulatory and Permitting

• Identify and define the legal regulatory and permitting barriers to project delivery working with legal and technical staff.
• Develop and run a strategy to clear each approval faster timeline clearer requirements or a rule change engaging agencies early to prevent surprises.
• Escalate when agency delay or ambiguity threatens delivery.

4. Communications Community and Public Affairs

• Convert technical engineering and operational detail into plain-language policy narrative produce the materials that carry it fact sheets briefing papers talking points testimony executive summaries and match each issue to the right messenger and vehicle.
• Coordinate the Companys community engagement charitable giving and sponsorships as part of its civic footprint as well as its government relations efforts.
• Direct the public relations and earned-media efforts that build the Companys public standing and reinforce its advocacy.

Essential capabilities

• Strong political judgment including the discipline to know how to engage on the Companys behalf at the right time at the right place.
• Command of legislative regulatory budget and agency processes.
• Ability to translate technical infrastructure and operational detail into policy argument and government relations action plans.
• Credibility with officials and agencies and the instinct to build the relationships behind it.
• Experience with public communications and community relations.
• Excellent writing and communications skills.
• Capacity to run many issues stakeholders and timelines at once across internal departments and senior leadership.