Senior Manager, Public Policy, Middle East

1 week ago

Cape Town, South Africa Airbnb Full time

Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.

It is our mission to work closely with politicians, regulators, and legislators to educate them about Airbnb and the "platform economy", highlight the significant social and economic impact our business has on towns, regions and cities, and showcase best practices from around the world. We want policy makers to understand the regulatory challenges that affect our business and our host community and find solutions that are good for their countries and our thriving local community.

Currently, the Public Policy team is looking for a **Senior Manager, Public Policy, Middle East & Africa**, based in Cape Town / Johannesburg / Pretoria. We have a team dedicated to this region, led by the Regional Lead for Middle East and Africa. We work in a cross-functional way to deliver on our political campaign objectives. The Senior Manager, Public Policy will be required to develop the political strategy and identify key partnership opportunities. In addition, this role will be providing direction and motivations to a multi-disciplinary team of communicators, programme managers, digital producers and advocacy associates. You will be required to deploy first-rate organisational skills to ensure that our strategy is executed, targets are set, and projects delivered.

To do this role effectively you must be able to build trust and talk to a variety of senior stakeholders and authorities, from city to regional to national government to help them understand the contribution that our community makes, and engage them in the process of creating fair legal and regulatory frameworks that embrace the potential of the sharing economy and platforms. You should also be able to identify partnership opportunities, build and maintain strategic relationships.

**Responsibilities**:

- Developing political strategy and priorities, advise on local needs, and plan relevant activities
- Experience in managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders. Highly organised and able to stay on top of multiple projects simultaneously
- Lead on developing and implementing Airbnb's legislative and public policy activities; including helping determine advocacy priorities, positions, and strategies
- Work with legislative bodies and government agencies on Airbnb's priority issues, including crafting and negotiating language for legislation, drafting comments on administrative regulations, and authoring substantive issue briefs and position papers
- Identify partnership opportunities, work with partners to develop MOU's, work with internal teams to deliver on partner MOU's and maintain partner/stakeholder relationships
- Represent Airbnb in coalitions and collaborations to advance Airbnb's advocacy initiatives - building these coalitions from scratch if necessary
- Manage consultants and marshall external resources to execute our plans
- Maintain relationships with an extensive network of contacts in local, regional and national legislative, executive and administrative offices, as well as with allied groups and coalition partners
- Engage in research, writing and other activities to provide analysis and critical thinking on developments affecting Airbnb's priorities
- Monitor legislation and regulatory matters and advise the company with respect to policy challenges
- Represent Airbnb in meetings with senior government and elected officials
- Advise Airbnb's teams on public policy matters to guide development of products, services and policies

**Requirements**:

- 10+ years experience working with policy issues in a relevant business or non-governmental organisation, or in a political, governmental, strategic partnerships or regulatory context (a mix of public and private sector experience is an advantage)
- Direct policy experience in one of the following fields: tourism, housing, landlord/tenant law or e-commerce/platform regulation - which must include a track record of influencing regulation and legislation at some level of government
- First-rate personal, political, analytical and organisational skills
- Ability to quickly get up to speed on complex technical and regulatory issues
- Ability to work independently as well as a team player in a multi-task work environment while producing the highest calibre work product in a timely manner
- Self starter with a sense of humour and the ability to thrive in a fast moving and sometimes stressful environment
- Degree or advanced degree level in related field - a legal background is a plus
- People management experience is a plus

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