Principal Adviser Stakeholder Engagement and Consultation

**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**
- Based at our Perth Office, this position is responsible for leading stakeholder engagement and consultation activities to support the acceptance of environmental regulatory approvals to achieve our Western Australian (WA) and Northern Australian (NA) business objectives. The position reports to the Manager, Stakeholder Engagement and Consultation within Santos’ Government and Communities team.

Key activities include:

- Working with the Manager, Stakeholder Engagement and Consultation to develop regional consultation strategies and continuously improve associated internal processes.
- Leading the development of consultation plans to support Regulator acceptance of primary and secondary environmental approvals across Commonwealth, Northern Territory (NT) and WA jurisdictions.
- Leading consultation activities for proposed Santos activities offshore Western Australia and Northern Territory, including the development and internal approval of consultation materials.
- Engaging government, industry and community stakeholders as required.
- Maintaining engagement and consultation records and outcomes.
- Drafting relevant content for regulatory approvals documents with respect to consultation activities.
- Collaborating with Santos’ Government Affairs, Community Affairs, Environment and Project teams to identify and manage stakeholder opportunities, risks, and issues impacting regulatory approvals.
- Ensuring Santos management system requirements, including internal assurance review processes, are met.
- Participating in Regulator inspection activities as required.

**About You**
- You are an adaptable and forward-thinking leader, capable of thriving in a dynamic business environment. Your proficiency in engaging with stakeholders at all levels and delivering diverse information, coupled with knowledge of Commonwealth, NT and WA environmental approvals processes and legislation., will be key to your success in this role.

You will have:

- Extensive experience in a similar or related position, including liaising with internal and external stakeholders and confidence in public speaking.
- A strategic approach to managing and resolving complex public issues.
- Strong working knowledge of Commonwealth, NT and WA environmental approvals processes, as well as relevant legislation and government/industry guidance.
- Advanced interpersonal, public speaking, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently, multitask, attention to detail and take on additional responsibilities as needed.
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Adobe Applications.
- Experience with commercial and legal frameworks in a corporate environment is highly desirable

National travel may be required for this role, based on business needs.

**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