Director External Affairs Canada

**Posting End Date**:
November 22, 2024

**Employee Type**:
Regular-Full time

**Union/Non**:
This is a non-union position

As the Director of External Affairs Canada, you’ll have the unique opportunity to craft Enbridge’s engagement with governments at the federal and provincial levels, provide expert counsel to executive leaders, and help navigate complex political and economic environments to support our business strategy.

We are looking to add an individual to our diverse team who shares in our core values of safety, integrity, respect, inclusion and high performance In return, we offer opportunities to grow and increase your knowledge and skills, and an exciting career filled with a competitive benefits and pension package including generous time off.

**What you will do**:

- This is a critical position in service of the company’s ability to implement and evolve its short-term and long-term strategic objectives through the creation of business value and competitive advantage based on building strong performance and relationships in highly complex areas in which the Director has identified accountabilities.
- Develop, implement, and continually improve a 2-5 year strategic advocacy plan, in alignment with the company’s business strategy and Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability’s (PACS) and provide agreed deliverables and to deliver functional excellence.
- Responsibility for preparation of content, measurement and analysis of Enbridge’s performance related to its advocacy strategy.
- Across all functions, the Director provides strategic advice and counsel to internal clients and PACS colleagues to ensure decisions and initiatives support strategic business priorities; contribute to management of risks and opportunities; and encourage collaboration and innovation toward the achievement of key goals and outcomes.
- Select, develop, and manage direct reports to ensure the achievement of expected outcomes. This includes delegating appropriate deliverables to direct reports (i.e. up to 1- 2 year deliverables) and holding them accountable for delivery. This includes ensuring that the team maintains and is accountable for specific advocacy plans for each business unit(BU), region and project within the Directors span of control.
- Deliver optimal functional results within appropriate performance metrics including quality; quantity; timeliness; efficiency; customer satisfaction; and financial performance. This includes ensuring that relevant advice and guidance is given (in the form of policies, strategies, programs and guidelines) to enable those delivering service to Enbridge BU’s to meet regulatory requirements.
- Develop and optimize (i.e. making as good and effective as possible) key external relationships and represent Enbridge externally as appropriate, e.g. with key legislators and their staffs/committee staffs and regulators, as well as other elected officials, to effectively obtain support for the objectives of Enbridge, including enhancing social license and Enbridge reputation.
- Serve as a primary point of contact, relationship manager, and representative for Enbridge in Canada with external partners in governments, advocacy organizations, policy think tanks and industry groups.
- Manage the research and associated impact analysis at the policy, legislative and regulatory levels of the issues impacting Enbridge at the Enterprise level.
- Manage and coordinate Enbridge participation and sponsorship of third party conferences and programs within the Directors span of control.

**Who You Are**:
**Required**:

- Advanced university degree in Political Science, Law, Economics, Business or related field.
- 15+ years’ experience within energy industry with a specific emphasis on advocacy and lobbying activities.
- Existing network of strong relationships within government, regulatory, and public policy.
- The highest standard of integrity required to model and earn unwavering trust with key partners.
- Outstanding written and oral communications is a must.
- Experience writing professionally, published reports would be ideal.
- Extensive experience presenting to external audiences, company executives and board of directors.
- Experience managing teams and strong leadership skills.
- Ability to coordinate and improve processes and to influence activities across the enterprise and externally.
- Ability to operate effectively through cross-functional accountabilities and authorities.
- High degree of self-motivation; ability to manage multiple projects at once, under constant deadline pressure.

**Working Conditions**:

- Based in Calgary or Toronto with travel required.
- Works with confidential, strategic information.
- Travel within Canada and occasionally to the United States will be required. Must possess a valid passport.

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Information For Applicants:

- Applications can be submitted via our online recruiting system only.
- We appreciate your interest in workin