Director, Regional Affairs

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Title: Director, Regional Affairs
Company: Tampa Electric Company
State and City: Florida
- Tampa
Shift: 8 Hr. X 5 Days

The Director Regional Affairs is a key leadership position reporting directly to the VP State and Regional Affairs. Responsible for leading the Tampa Electric Regional Affairs team and overseeing the development and implementation of stakeholder strategies for Tampa Electric service areas. This position is critical to the fulfillment of the Company’s vision plans and the Director, Regional Affairs must be able to translate strategic plans into specific Company objectives and metrics.

Operating through collaboration, the Director, Regional Affairs will cultivate internal and external relationships across key stakeholder groups, including local elected officials, economic development organizations, governmental staff, community leaders, and industry leaders. Effectively lead cross-functional teams through regional stakeholder engagement strategies which result in measurable deliverables and successful outcomes for the Company. Responsible for strategically connecting the vision of Tampa Electric with the communities and customers they served.

Provides innovative solutions and technical oversight to the Regional Affairs team on efforts related to local government relations, economic development, stakeholder engagement, community investment, franchise agreements, customer matters, emergency response functions and operations support, including permitting and infrastructure projects. Leads targeted corporate earnings growth and goals through strong government, economic and community development initiatives.

• Leads and develops a results-driven Regional Affairs management team responsible for successfully delivering on Company goals through a broad range of local government relations, economic development, stakeholder engagement, community investment, operations and customer support. (15%)
• Leads the development of regional stakeholder engagement strategy plans and related measures of success to effectively manage key political, economic development, community investment, regulatory, governmental and industry relationships in the assigned areas; achieved through proactively identifying the risks and opportunities to our business, strategically aligning resources to effectively shape positive outcomes related to these areas and establishing open communication channels with key stakeholders at the local, state, regional and federal levels.
  
  (20%)
• Lead the development of Company’s Community Investment strategy, including contributions, participation, and communications; provide guidance on the Company’s board involvement in key organizations in support of interests and business needs at the local, regional and state levels; oversee development and maintenance of philanthropic and grant funding programs, policies, procedures and evaluation systems that balance the needs of the community with those of the company;
  
  and oversee employment engagement and ensure appropriate structure to develop, promote and increase employee volunteerism and participation. (20%)
• Aligns Company interests and…