Head Of Environmental Social Governance And

**Head of Environmental Social Governance and Resilience**
- **Lead the execution of the ESG strategy**:

- ** Competitive remuneration + incentive structure**:

- ** Key role within Pacific National's Leadership Team**

**About us**

Pacific National (PN) is the largest private provider of diversified rail freight services in Australia. We haul a variety of freight including coal, intermodal containers, steel, and a range of bulk commodities and materials that keep the region's economy, businesses and households running. We are a company built on solid foundations and we are incredibly proud of the essential role we continue to play supporting Australia's supply chain. At Pacific National, we take great pride in delivering our best every day and have a relentless focus on customer service and place **safety above all else**.

We operate nationally with approximately 3,500 staff in over 90+ sites across Australia. We respect and care for the communities in which we operate and continue to evolve our community engagement and strengthen relationships through partnerships and investment. We are focused on reducing the carbon emissions of our business, while also enabling the reduction of carbon emissions in the broader supply chain to support the National targets.

**About the role**

The Head of Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and resilience reports to the Chief Strategy, Sustainability and Technology Officer as a key member of the Leadership team. This critical role exists to lead the execution of the ESG strategy and support a governance structure for oversight over the development and implementation of the ESG initiatives.

The overarching objective is to support Pacific National to reduce its environmental and community impact, focused around improving resource utilisation. Key focus areas centre around:

- Providing advice and input to executive management, team members and other stakeholders on ESG impacts and defining business unit's responsibilities, including external reporting, audit and assurance and business management
- Plans design and implement an overall environment management process for the organisation
- Ensuring compliance with environmental legislation in Australia
- Identifying and managing energy/ emissions business, environmental and people risks. Ensure change management processes are followed at governance and individual project levels
- Improving operational efficiencies and managing compliance obligations
- Reducing operational emissions intensity
- Becoming recognised as best in class for energy and emissions improvements
- Developing, implementing, and maintaining communication strategy, geared towards, driving cultural change in energy and emissions management with the business
- Educating stakeholders about the humanitarian, environmental and commercial value of boosting our ESG performance

**About you**

This is a highly influential role within Pacific National, you will be expected to develop strong internal stakeholder relationships across the broader business working closely with Legal, Procurement, Operations and Commercial teams to develop long term sustainable strategy. Demonstrated capability to develop frameworks and implement will be a critical component to the success of this role. You will be a natural communicator with experience leading cultural change with exposure working at Board Level and with external Senior Leaders.

**In addition**:

- Understanding of global ESG rating and analysis provided by research firms and rating houses (DJSI CSA, MSCI, Bloomberg, CDP, etc.)
- Experience building and implementing enterprise-wide strategies
- Program management experience for large scale and/or cross-functional delivery
- Senior stakeholder management
- Analytical capabilities
- Experience with Board member engagement
- 10-15 years' work experience

**The benefits**

At Pacific National we value diversity, inclusion and the contribution of each team member. Our values underpin our commitment to create an inclusive culture where everyone is accepted and valued for who they are, enabling everyone to bring their authentic selves to work.

When you join the Pacific National team, you'll be encouraged to take ownership of your career and we'll be there to support you with a range of exciting initiatives including:

- Industry leading programs focussed on your growth and career development
- Paid parental leave up to 12 weeks for primary carers at full pay after 12 months service
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- A focus on your mental health and wellbeing through our PeerConnect program
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program, administered by Benestar, offering confidential counselling services for employees and their eligible family members, paid for by us at no cost to you
- Access to Unmind, a digital platform that gives you access to tools, training and exercises that will support your mental wellbeing
- Discounted fitness an