Lead Tenures Adviser

**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 excellent opportunity has arisen for a skilled Lead Tenures Adviser to join Santos' EAPNG Tenures team based in Brisbane. Reporting to the Manager Tenures, this role will support technical coordination and governance of tenure management, and administration and compliance monitoring across the Company's Eastern Australian onshore exploration, development and production operations.

Utilising a wide range of technical knowledge, evaluation techniques and expertise, you will be responsible for driving and leading the formulating, reviewing and accuracy of information provided to Regulatory bodies.

This role also provides technical support to the tenures team to deliver tenure management and governance across the upstream business and promotes tenure management and compliance related standards which are consistent with Santos' policies and work across the upstream business to ensure high standards of compliance are achieved.

Key Accountabilities:

- Provide expert advice and assistance during the lifecycle of activities of tenure (planning and design, project construction and implementation, operation, abandonment and rehabilitation).
- Developing and implementing processes for compilation of technical data to justify regulatory approvals.
- Obtain and review technical data and provide expert advice to ensure that the information supplied meet the provisions of the resource legislation
- Establish and refine channels of communications and associated interface systems, notifications and processes with key approval stakeholders - both internal and external.
- Undertake audits for compliance obligations regarding Tenures conditions and obligations as specified in the relevant resource legislation and associated regulations.
- Provide expert advice on and coordinate overlapping tenure requirements internally and externally.

**About You**
- Extensive experience in a high-volume Tenures role, including compliance, monitoring and identifying risks
- Guiding, mentoring and advising teams of professionals and/or individual contributors
- Knowledge of petroleum legislation and relevant tenure procedures and systems
- Knowledge of government including processes and procedures
- Tertiary qualification

**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 orientation, or anything else that makes us different.

Australian Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander jobseekers are strongly encouraged to apply.

**How to Apply**

Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before **COB 10th October 2024.**
- A requirement of this role is that you will ne