Specialist, Network Permits at IHS Towers

Job Description

• IHS Towers are currently recruiting for a Specialist, Network Permits.
• In this role, you will research and provide updates on regulatory developments (including new policies and laws) as they affect the company's operations.
• You will also follow up with regulatory authorities on submissions and other relevant issues.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide legal and regulatory opinion on government legislation and regulatory policies.
• Prepare correspondence and position papers on regulatory and environmental issues.
• Maintain detailed records of environmental audit reports and environmental impact assessments. Ensure quality assurance of reports for appropriate regulatory agencies.
• Process statutory and consultancy fees for environmental permits and approvals for regulatory agencies/ consultants, thus ensuring timely payments for all environmental permits, e.g. renewals, contraventions, and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/ Environmental Audit (EA) procurement.
• Engage regulatory and governmental agencies on assigned issues and deliver on assigned tasks on time.
• Engage regulatory agencies on requests for environmental permits to mitigate against financial sanctions and penalties, thus ensuring effective cost reduction for environmental levies and demands that may impact income and Opex savings.
• Attend internal and external meetings and prepare reports summing participants’ views.
• Make presentations to regulatory and governmental authorities on matters that affect the company.
• Prepare regulatory trackers of assigned issues and follow through with timely updates and resolutions as required.
• Proactively work to prevent litigation.
• Receive EIA and EA Certificate from the Federal Ministry of Environment (FME) and National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) through the EIA consultant and update the company’s environmental permits database.
• Follow up with environmental consultants to ensure acceleration of certification process for environmental permits and approvals.
• Communicate final list of sites obtained from the Rollout/ Deployment team to the EIA consultant for registration. Follow up with the EIA consultants throughout the EIA process and liaise with the FME as required throughout stages of the EIA process.
• Collaborate with relevant functional areas – including Operations, Rollout/ Deployment, Finance, and Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) – on site verification, panel review, and Impact Mitigation Monitoring (IMM) stages of the EIA process.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Senior Specialist, Network Permits.

Experience & Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's degree in Law.
• +5 years’ post-NYSC work experience in a telecoms environment or reputable law firm.
• Demonstrable drafting skills and ability to prepare legal opinions and research papers within tight deadlines.

Organizational Competencies:

• Be Bold
• Customer Focus
• Innovation
• Integrity.

Functional Competencies:

• Client Engagement
• Commercial Awareness
• Contract Management
• Negotiation Skills
• Corporate Governance
• Litigation Management
• Regulatory, Compliance & Governance
• Stakeholder Management
• Tax Management.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork.