Principal

**About Us**

Santos provides reliable, affordable energy for progress and seeks to provide lower carbon energy over time.

Santos is a global energy company with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the United States.

At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.

Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.

For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households.

Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure.

The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.

Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company’s operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions - Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids - are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.

**About the Role**

An opportunity has become available for an experienced crisis management and business continuity specialist to join the Santos team in Adelaide. Reporting to the Vice President - Risk, Audit & Compliance - this is a key influencing role, through collaborating and guiding the Santos leadership team in preparing for and responding to crisis and business continuity risk.

Your role, as Principal Crisis Management and Business Continuity, is to advise and equip the organisation with the skills and tools to effectively respond to and manage potential crisis, ensuring the organisation’s resilience.

Key accountabilities:

- Provide crisis management and business continuity leadership, direction, expertise, and support across the organisation.
- Lead and manage processes that enable the business to rapidly respond in a coordinated way to crises, and disruptions.
- Develop and maintain crisis management and business continuity management standards, minimum mandatory controls, and organisational procedures that drive best practice risk controls and meet regulatory requirements.
- Establish, maintain, evaluate and continually improve a crisis management and business continuity training and competency framework.
- Research and identify relevant requirements, international standards and procedures to implement best practices in crisis management and business continuity.
- Ensure alignment on top strategic risks for the Company and emerging issues to inform and incorporate into crisis management and business continuity preparedness.

**About You**

Key requirements:

- Comprehensive knowledge of, and experience in, crisis management and business continuity principles, strategies and methodologies.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts in a clear and concise manner.
- Excellent analytical skills to assess performance, identify risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Experience in an environment such as mining, energy or manufacturing sector.
- Strong ability to coach, guide and influence senior leadership in business risk preparedness.
- Solutions focussed and action oriented to drive continuous improvement.

**Qualifications**

Essential:

- Tertiary qualification in business continuity, risk management, crisis and issues management or relevant field
- Significant demonstrated experience in large, complex organisations and high-risk industry
- Operational experience highly regarded
- Professional certification with relevant bodies highly regarded.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**

Santos acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Aboriginal people. We recognise the traditional rights to maintain the culture, identities, traditions, and customs on their country. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome - they are essential to our ongoing success.

We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual or