Purpose

The Transition Team Policy and Impact Manager plays a vital role in organising and delivering key projects to meet strategic and operational goals. Working across the organisation and with key stakeholders to ensure Flood Re is making progress towards its exist in 2039. The strategic objectives of the Transition team are to:

• Reduce the risk of flooding
• Reduce the damage and costs of flooding
• Achieve an effective market; and
• Address the limits of affordability.

The Transition Team Policy and Impact Manager reports to the Head of Transition and will help identify, monitor, drive, update, and build a culture of success and accountability within Flood Re that will improve overall advocacy impact, outcomes and organisational success. The Transition Team Policy and Impact Manager will design coordinating mechanisms, develop reporting metrics, and support policy engagements. On an ad hoc basis, the role will require the Transition Team Policy and Impact Manager to be comfortable engaging with different Flood Re teams as well as government, industry and other stakeholders, bringing teams together and influence decision making.

Principal responsibilities

• Manage significant projects aimed at improving flood resilience using a recognised project management structure
• Work with our stakeholders across flooding and financial services to bring about change
• Understand the complex issues that Flood Re is tackling to create the right public, private and household level incentives to tackle flood risk
• Manage risks and develop contingency plans
• Develop and manage initiatives’ budgets
• Facilitate closing out activities and developing lessons learned
• Provide input on new policy initiatives and proposals, helping evolve from concept to viability and execution
• Communicate progress, opportunities, risks and issues to internal teams, senior staff and external stakeholders

Knowledge and Experience

• Demonstrable experience employing creative and innovative approaches to take a strategy/policy objective forward
• Project management experience including planning, developing timelines, managing resources, with focus on scope and budget
•  Ability to prioritize workloads and work on multiple streams of work concurrently to maximize strategic benefit within operational constraints
• Strong attention to detail and an interest in working with policy papers and policy maker stakeholders
• Experience and understanding of policy and quantitative analysis, with the ability to work with both qualitative and quantitative inputs
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Interest in climate change risks and adaption, particularly related to flood risk
• Broad understanding of insurance preferred, but not required
• Ability to plan and coordinate activities