Deputy General Manager (Azule Energy - Namibia Office)

Job Summary:

Support and deputize for the Namibia General Manager in the overall leadership of the Company’s in-country presence. The role provides senior country leadership, institutional oversight and cross-functional integration, ensuring that Azule Energy manages political, regulatory, social and reputational sensitivities while progressing its business objectives in a compliant and sustainable manner.

This is a senior country leadership role, focused on strategic oversight, escalation management, governance discipline and protection of the Company’s license to operate.

The Deputy General Manager sets priorities, ensures alignment across functions, owns country-level risk visibility and supports the General Manager in high-level institutional and reputational matters

Key Responsibilities:

Country Leadership and Deputizing Responsibilities

• Deputize for the Namibia General Manager when delegated, ensuring continuity of leadership, decision follow-up and external representation.
• Coordinate country priorities across Commercial, Legal, Compliance, HSE, Supply Chain, HR, technical functions interfaces.
• Translate the General Manager’s country strategy into actionable priorities, accountabilities and follow-up across the in-country organization.
• Prepare concise updates, decision notes and escalation briefs for the General Manager and relevant governance bodies.

Leadership-Level and Institutional Oversight

• Maintain a strong leadership-level network with national and local authorities, regulators and key community representatives.
• Support high-level institutional engagement with Government, regulators, local authorities and relevant community leaders, ensuring consistency of Company positioning.
• Map key stakeholders and decision-making influencers at country level, identifying opportunities, sensitivities and escalation routes for the General Manager.

Political Landscape, Country Risk and Reputation

• Understand the political, institutional and community landscape and proactively manage sensitivities that may affect the Company, its reputation or its licence to operate.
• Own and maintain the country risk register, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, assigned to accountable owners, mitigated and escalated when required.
• Provide forward-looking advice to the General Manager on political, regulatory, social and reputational developments that may impact business continuity or approvals.
• Ensure coordination with Compliance, Legal and relevant functions on anti-corruption, governance, sanctions, reputational and stakeholder-related risk matters.

Local Content Oversight and Social License to Operate

• Ensure local content commitments are translated into concrete, measurable actions with clear owners, timelines and reporting mechanisms (e.g. local development, social projects, etc…).
• Oversee alignment of local content delivery across Supply Chain, HR, technical functions and external engagement activities, without replacing the functional delivery owners.
• Monitor implementation progress and ensure early escalation of delivery gaps, stakeholder concerns or reputational risks connected to local content.
• Support transparent communication of local content progress to internal leadership and, when appropriate, to relevant external stakeholders.

Governance, Internal Alignment and Decision Support

• Ensure that country-level commitments, institutional engagements and external communications are aligned with Azule Energy governance, procedures and approval authorities.
• Facilitate alignment between the General Manager, the Commercial/Regulatory/Stakeholder function and other departments on priorities requiring cross-functional resolution.

• Follow up on actions arising from key meetings with authorities, regulators, partners and internal decision makers, ensuring accountability and timely closure.

• Promote a culture of integrity, transparency, disciplined record keeping and proactive risk management across the in-country organization.

Dimensions - (numerical data of direct or indirect impact for the scope and scale of the job, e.g. financial – annual budget, project cost, annual revenue; people – number of subordinates; other – volume associated with the job):

Main Interfaces:

• Internal: Namibia General Manager, Azule Energy Namibia branch colleagues, and Azule Energy ELT.
• External: Government, regulators, local authorities, relevant community leaders and JV partners.

Requirements:

• Proven capability to engage credibly at senior level with authorities, regulators, partners, community representatives and internal leadership teams.
• Demonstrated judgement in managing sensitive political, regulatory, social, reputational and compliance matters.
• Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and driving execution through influence, governance discipline and clear accountability.
• Namibian Nationality (must- have) 

Essential experience, skills & competencies:

General

• Fluent knowledge of English.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, judgement and influencing skills at leadership level.
• Strong ability to synthesize complex issues into clear decision points, risks, options and recommended actions.
• Good computer literacy, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong understanding of stakeholder mapping, institutional engagement, political risk assessment and country risk register management.
• Knowledge of local content frameworks, social performance principles and community engagement practices.
• Knowledge of petroleum sector regulatory processes, approval pathways and license-to-operate requirements, with emphasis on oversight rather than day-to-day regulatory execution.
• Sound understanding of compliance, anti-corruption, reputational risk and governance requirements in external stakeholder engagement.
• Broad understanding of oil and gas value chain, joint venture environment, planning and business management processes.

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from a reputed university in Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Law, Political Science, International Relations or a related discipline
• 10+ years of professional experience, preferably in the oil and gas industry, with significant exposure to country management, external affairs, government relations, governance, risk management and/or complex stakeholder environments.
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Working Conditions/Environment

• Work is primarily performed in an office environment, with occasional site or offshore visits as required. No regular exposure to environmental stressors, contaminants, extreme temperatures, or excessive noise.

Location

Namibia Office

Azule Energy, uma nova empresa internacional de energia localizada em Angola

A nossa ambição é fornecer energia ao povo angolano e fazer parceria com o país na sua transição energética. Vamos esforçar-nos para maximizar o valor para todos os stakeholders e colocar Angola no centro do que fazemos.

Porquê Azule

Ao combinar os activos e a força de trabalho da bp e da Eni em Angola, a Azule Energy é uma empresa de energia autónoma e integrada.

A nossa visão é ser uma empresa segura, responsável e diversificada que será pioneira na produção rentável de petróleo e gás, bem como ajudar a expandir o sector de energias renováveis de Angola para apoiar o consumo local de energia.

A Azule é um interveniente importante no upstream, com actividades de pesquisa e produção em 20 blocos licenciados. O crescente foco da Azule no gás natural apoiará Angola no seu papel de exportador global de GNL. Além disso, a Azule está a desenvolver novas oportunidades a partir de energias renováveis com um novo negócio de energia solar.

Iremos:

Colaborar com Angola para melhorar o acesso do país à energia, criando emprego e gerando crescimento económico, investindo em novas infraestruturas e novas tecnologias para impulsionar a indústria energética angolana, alavancando a nossa experiência singular em exploração e desenvolvimento acelerado de projectos e operando de uma forma ambientalmente responsável, socialmente justa e consistente com os objectivos da bp e da Eni rumo ao Net Zero.

Governação

A Azule Energy é uma joint venture incorporada (IJV) entre a BP p.l.c. e a Eni SpA. A bp e a Eni detêm, cada uma, 50% das acções. A Azule Energy opera em Angola ao abrigo de diferentes acordos petrolíferos que estabelecem a sua relação contratual com o Governo Angolano (representado pela Concessionária Nacional). Os referidos acordos fornecem o enquadramento para a realização das operações petrolíferas.

Operador responsável

Segurança

A segurança dos nossos colaboradores, contratados externos e stakeholders locais é um valor fundamental.

Com base na cultura de segurança da bp e da Eni, manter a segurança implica mais do que a adopção contínua de práticas e procedimentos de classe mundial.

A Azule está empenhada em estimular uma cultura de segurança de confiança dentro de um local de trabalho inclusivo e diversificado, onde todos são tratados com respeito e dignidade.

Proteção do ambiente

A Azule Energy está está empenhada em preservar o meio ambiente e promover a neutralidade de carbono. A nossa política é a mesma da bp e Eni, no que diz respeito aos valores e objectivos ambientais de alcançar o Net Zero até 2050.

As emissões da Azule seguirão uma trajectória sustentável em linha com as metas ambientais de ambas as empresas. A produção de hidrocarbonetos e as emissões de gases com efeito de estufa são comunicadas pelas duas empresas-mãe numa base de investimento partilhado.

Investimento Social

A Azule está empenhada em promover o desenvolvimento sustentável das comunidades do país, de acordo com os planos de desenvolvimento do Governo e os Objectivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável das Nações Unidas.

Temos um portfólio de diversas iniciativas sociais herdadas da bp e da Eni que visam áreas-chave de desenvolvimento em acesso à energia, acesso à água, saúde, educação e agricultura.

No caso de dúvidas, entre em contato connosco através do email recruitment@azule-energy.com