AEDC Latest Recruitment 18th August 2016

Job Title: Regional Manager

Location: Abuja

Job Description

• The Regional Manager Directs, Leads and Manages the administration, and operation of the business within assigned region, by adhering to agreed processes, rules and regulations, in order to meet the Company’s business objectives.
• Achieves business targets, minimizes technical and commercial losses, and reduces old debts in the respective area.
• Is responsible for energy accounting, billed energy (kWh) and collected funds (Naira) for all electricity that is available for sale.

Responsibilities
The regional Managers responsibilities cuts across the following areas namely.
Commercial:

• Responsible for energy available for sale and increase of operational efficiency.
• Identify and implement strategies and procedures for reducing the estimated energy and uncollected revenues, including but not limited to reducing energy theft, increase billing, collection growth and debt collection.
• Routine visits within the assigned Region spending considerable time assessing needs, reviewing objectives, developing action plans, exercising operational oversight and performance management.
• Define and develop territory, vertical, and outreach strategies.

Technical:

• Direct Provide effective direction and leadership for technical services in the region.
• Direct and manage the maintenance and, repairs of faulty network elements such as injection substations and lines.
• Direct and manage high tension lines and Operations Line tracing.
• Direct and manage Specialised Equipment Storage use to ensure longevity.
• Lead and direct the process of Load balance Management.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Overall responsibility for the implementation of the corporate safety vision and strategy for a particular region.
• Lead the promotion of a “Safety Above All” culture in the Region.
• Ensure that safety initiatives are consistently administered in compliance with AEDC policies and government regulations.
• Leads or participates in Regional safety forums and groups as appropriate.

Human Resources:

• Provide coaching and mentoring to staff via formal and informal feedback sessions to accelerate their professional development and improve their leadership potential.
• Build and lead a team of professionals, while creating a fun, hard¬working, and results-¬oriented environment.
• Lead and exemplify the zero tolerance to corruption and other unethical practices in the Region, being the preferred initiator of investigations into such practices before escalating to the HQ.

Financial Services:

• Agree annual budgets and produce a detailed annual business operating plan.
• Deliver monthly, quarterly or annual targets for revenue, profits and cash.
• Produce business performance reports, which could be on a monthly or quarterly basis.
• Oversees the fiscal activities of the Region including budgeting, reporting and audit.
• Manage regional budget and lead staff to achieve regional performance targets.
• Manage operational business expenses within region.

Public Relations:

• Facilitate the integration of AEDC into the fabric of the community by using effective marketing and communications activities.
• Act as an advocate, within the public and private sectors, for issues relevant to AEDC, its services and constituencies.
• Listen to clients, and the community in order to improve services and generate community involvement. Assures community awareness of AEDC’s response to community needs.

Qualifications

• A relevant university Degree in Social Sciences, Engineering and relevant professional qualification.
• 10 years of combined experience in operation, maintenance and distribution with a minimum of five (5) years related supervisory experience.
• Able to see the big picture and plan out details.
• Previous Operation Management experience.
• Knowledge of financial and management accounts.
• Knowledge and understanding of Electricity Distribution market.
• The successful candidate will be able to influence at a senior management level.
• Ideally the candidate will have strong management experience and strong business acumen.

Job Title: Head, Business Risk

Location: Abuja

Job Descriptions

• The role reports to the Director Risk and Compliance within the AEDC organogrem.
• He/she is to effectively develop and implement an Enterprise Wide Risk Management System for the organisation, develop a rick identification and reporting matrix for the organisation and prepare quarterly ERM Reports for the EMT and EXCOM of the AEDC Board.

Key Role/Responsibilities

• Planning, designing and implementing an overall Enterprise Risk Management process and plan for the organisation
• Leading and coordinating risk assessments, identifying the operational and strategic risks, facilitating the prioritization of risk and the identification of risk owners.
• Ensure the provision of on-the-job technical training for staff to ensure skills transfer,
• Take the lead in establishing and monitoring performance benchmarks for the Business Risk Management function and ensure the promotion of a high performance culture within team.
• Co-ordinate all Risk Management activities and events within AEDC.
• Ensure the implementation of all the Company’s Risk Management Frameworks which includes Enterprise Risk Management, Insurance Risk Management, Crisis Risk Management, Business Continuity Management, Fraud Risk Management, and Information Security Risk Management in collaboration with relevant stakeholders
• Business Continuity; Manage potential and real situation that may cause disruption to operations and invocation of business continuity plans, including implementation of a robust business recovery strategy comprising an impact analysis contingency plans and testing and with consideration to critical parties and vendors. Responsibilities also include facilitation of mandatory business continuity awareness and escalation of business continuity risks
• Conduct Risk evaluation, which involves comparing estimated risks with criteria established by the organization such as coats, legal requirements and environmental factors, and evaluating the organization’s previous handling of risks
• Establishing and qualifying the organisation’s ‘risk appetite’ i.e the level of risk they are prepared to undertake.
• Risk reporting in an appropriate way for different audiences, for example, to the board of directors so they understand the most significant risk, to business heads to ensure they are aware of risks relevant to their parts of the business and to individuals to understand their accountability for individual risks
• Quarterly Top 10 Organisational Risk Profile reporting to the Executive Management Team (EMT) and the Board of Directors
• Coordinate Risk and Control Assessment (“RCA”) including set scope, identify material risks, assign risk prioritization, identify and assess the design and operating effectiveness of key controls to mitigate operational risk.
• Capacity Building Training for AEDC staff in Risk identification, Assessment and Reporting
• Risk culture and change and process ownership for every staff of AEDC
• Providing support, education and training to staff to build risk awareness within the organization

Qualification
Minimum Qualification Required:

• A first Degree in Business Administration, Management, Accounting, Economics, Engineering or Natural Science.

Additional Qualification Required:

• An MBA and a professional Risk Management Qualification a MUST.

Minimum Experience Required:

• 10 Years Experience in an industry / commercial entity with experience in the development and implementation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Programme and Business Continuity Management (BCM) Plans

Other Requirements:

• The candidate must be prepared to work unusually long hours; both male and female candidates are encouraged to apply. The following  attributes are also very cardinal for effective delivery of this function;
• Effective Leadership
• Result Oriented with ‘a can do attitude
• Good lnterpersonal Relationship
• Excellent planning and organizing skills
• Excellent Communication skills both written and orally
• Tenacious, highly motivated and resilient individual
• Team worker with the ability to drive cross functional KPls development & Implementation

How to Apply 
Interested and qualified candidates should their curriculum vitae and a cover letter and should be emailed to: hr.recruitment@abujaelectricity.com The subject of your email should be the position being applied for, i.e.: Regional Manager:

The cover letter should be addressed to:
The MD/CEO,
Abuja Electricity Distribution Company Plc,
1 Ziquinchor Street, Off IBB Way
Wuse Zone 4,
Abuja, FCT,
Nigeria
Attention: The Director, Corporate Services.

Note: Only applications sent via the above email address will be treated.