Lead Specialist: Corporate Affairs and Sustainability

At Liberty, we employ more than 6 000 people across 7 businesses in 18 African countries. Every day, our employees grow their knowledge by working with diverse groups of people who specialise in a wide range of skills across insurance, asset management, investment and health products. We continually seek to engage, develop, recognise and reward the people who make our business great.

Purpose
To provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist corporate affairs and sustainability expertise.

Minimum Experience
5 - 8 years experience in a similar environment, of which 2 - 3 years at specialist level

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Marketing

Process

• Determine resource allocation priorities and deployment necessary to support the effective integration of processes.
• Advise on and ensure the development and implementation of area specific methodologies and frameworks; ensuring appropriate implementation and use.
• Advise on the alignment and application of area specific practices and integrated processes across functional areas to ensure value chain integrity.
• Support and inform the process of building and sustaining communication infrastructure and framework (channels and media) to enable bus. objectives delivery.
• Quality assure all communication media and content to identify trends to ensure improved and consistent delivery, relevance and accuracy.
• Identify and advise on the effective development, activation and improvement of key messages through relevant communication platforms.
• Support and inform the process of building and sustaining communication and marketing infrastructure and framework to enable bus. objectives delivery.
• Keep abreast of changes and new legislation and developments within industries that may affect area of specialisation.
• Accountable for contributing to strategy enablement and implementation and delivery optimisation across an internal value chain, through best practice development and implementation.
• Draw on own technical and/or professional knowledge and experience to proactively develop alternatives and identify optimal best practice solutions for tactical problems.
• Plan to deliver work outputs related to a service or operational area, Manages interdependent functional activities, and directs best-practice priorities, standards and procedures to ensure efficiency within area of specialisation.

Customer

• Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.

Finance

• Implement and monitor financial controls, management of costs and corporate governance throughout the area of specialisation.

Learning and Growth

• Contribute positively to human capability improvement, related to knowledge optimisation and associated with area of specialisation.

Governance

• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice and/or tactical area to identify and manage risk exposure liability related to the area of specialisation.

Technical Competencies

• Research and Information Gathering (Proficient)
• Business Interaction (Proficient)
• Efficiency improvement (Proficient)
• Reporting and Interpretation (Proficient)
• Application of digital technologies (Proficient)
• Customer Advice (Technical) (Proficient)

Behavioural Competencies

• Stakeholder Engagement and Management (Proficient)
• Professional/Technical learning (Proficient)
• Organisation and Attention to Detail (Proficient)
• People Management and Empowerment (Proficient)
• Interpersonal Effectiveness (Proficient)
• Problem Solving and Analysis (Proficient)
• Teamwork and Cooperation (Proficient)
• Communicating with Impact (Proficient)
• Relationship Management and Networking (Proficient)
• Customer Orientation (Proficient)

Liberty Group Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and the group's Transformation Strategy, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards the achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the organisation.