Department: Advocacy

Team: Policy

Location: Malaysia

Position type: Short-Term Contractor until End of 2025

What the hiring manager says

The Asia Pacific regional team includes policy, technology, marketing and Mobile 4 Development (M4D) spread across the region but mostly concentrated between office in Delhi and in Hong Kong.

The policy team has mix of experiences and skills from government, MNO and industry; the team is supported by the multi-function global team of experts based in London.

The policy team moderates and prioritizes the execution of GSMA policy programs alongside member national and regional issues to support the mission to advance policy and regulation for a sustainable and innovative mobile sector. Maintaining an active community of member policy and regulatory leadership, the team engages with policymakers and regulators to advance policy discourse, contribute to market research, and conveys the perspectives of the mobile industry across the range of issues that surround the digital economy and society.

Continuously developing and evolving relationships with government and policy stakeholders, the team also provides primary insight on regional policy priorities to the global team.

About the Role

The Senior Policy Manager will report into the Policy Director, APAC which is part of the Asia Pacific Regional team.

The Senior Policy Manager will bring expertise in the telecommunications, digital economy and internet policy issues. The role requires the ability to work on complex regulatory issues that may be of varying time durations, in a wide variety of circumstances and to consistently deliver high-quality work under often time constraints.

The Senior Policy Manager will actively engage with GSMA’s members, policymakers, regulators, international institutions and other third parties to advance policy positions and influence policy development globally.

As a senior policy team member you will prepare GSMA’s response to public consultations on mobile policy areas in South East Asia. The role will involve engaging with different GSMA’s programmes centrally and managing cross-functional teams to ensure that the GSMA’s role has as much of an impact as possible in the country.

Contributing to the development and delivery of policy workshops, roundtables and seminars at GSMA hosted events such as MWC Barcelona is key component of the role.

About You

• You will have established relationships with mobile industry players and/or ICT policy makers in South East Asia
• You will have a track record in delivering results when working with multiple stakeholders.
• You will have experience and understanding of the ICT regulatory landscape across South East Asia
• You will have the ability to work co-operatively and flexibly with stakeholders and facilitate a collaborative approach
• You will have proven experience and comfort with working in matrix organisations
• You will have experience writing and delivering impactful presentations to senior stakeholders
• You will have held a senior policy position within a MNO or the wider mobile ecosystem

Contract type

Short term Contractor

Worker type

Contingent Worker

What We Offer

Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.

In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

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Being You at the GSMA

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.

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