Senior Public Policy Manager at Bolt Nigeria

Bolt (formally Taxify) is one of the fastest growing startups in the world with over 30M happy customers in 30+ countries, from Europe to Mexico to Africa. We’re building a ride-hailing app to connect millions of riders and drivers around the world to make travel easier, quicker and more reliable.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Senior Public Policy Manager – West and Central Africa

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• We are looking for a Senior Public Policy Manager to join Bolt’s team and cover West and Central Africa.
• You will be the key point of contact for local teams, protecting the business from damaging legislation, regulation and administration at a national and regional level

Responsibilities

• Management and mitigation of political, regulatory and legislative risk
• Design and execution of public affairs strategy including timeline for engagement with KPIs
• Comprehensive stakeholder mapping: assist in-country business units with identifying key stakeholders among elected officials, civil servants, third party groups; ensuring that information is kept current
• Message crafting and localization
• Drafting of position papers, submissions, leave-behinds, consultation papers and oral advocacy materials, as required
• Oral advocacy and effective representation of Bolt in meetings with stakeholders
• Co-primary ownership of relationship with regulatory authorities in operational markets
• Maintenance of relationships with 3rd party groups including NGOs, civil society groups, passenger, commuter and safety organizations
• Representing Bolt in relevant industry associations
• Establish effective relationships with policy-making and regulatory stakeholders in target markets
• Instruct and manage consultant public affairs agencies, freelancers and legal counsel as required.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience in a public affairs/ public policy capacity. You may not describe yourself as a lobbyist but you have worked in a professional capacity influencing and changing legislation, regulation and administrative procedure.
• This is not a job for a career changer, nor for an enthusiastic amateur. The successful candidate is likely to come from working for an elected official or with a civil service department, regulatory agency, public affairs agency or might be an in-house in a public policy role, ideally in the tech or transport verticals
• Experience of legislative and regulatory processes on a multi-jurisdictional basis
• While not a communications or PR role, an understanding of how political developments impact the media cycle, and vice versa
• Demonstrable successes in public affairs
• The ability to work and create an advocacy agenda in accordance with a strategic governance framework
• An excellent writer and communicator
• The ability to relate public affairs activity to underpin the commercial operations of a business
• Confident, articulate, organized, resilient
• Educated to degree level, likely with some postgraduate
• Formal legal training in advisory or litigation functions could be helpful but not a prerequisite. Transaction support lawyers, don’t waste your time
• Good political networks in some operational markets in the region are an advantage; ability to develop networks a requirement
• Experience of and the confidence to represent Bolt to Cabinet level policy-makers
• Business standard written and spoken English
• Additional languages a distinct advantage

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.