Job description

Deputy Country Manager (fixed term employee position)

Position Details:

An individual contributor residing in Athens responsible for supporting the Country Manager in translating new country entry strategy into executable country plans, ensuring that workstreams are coordinated, and business activities progress in a disciplined, compliant, and integrated manner. Reports to Exploration Country Manager, Greece.

Candidates should be able to demonstrate the following experiences, skills, and competencies:

1. Country strategy and business integration

• Support development and execution of country entry and country management plans, including priorities, milestones, decision points, dependencies, and resourcing needs.
• Maintain a clear view of country objectives, critical path activities, and upcoming decisions required to advance the opportunity.

2. Cross-functional coordination and execution

• Act as the central integrator for country-level workstreams, ensuring alignment among Business Development, Exploration, Legal, HSE, Security, Corporate Affairs, Finance, Tax, Supply Chain, and other functions.
• Identify execution gaps, bottlenecks, and interdependencies; escalate issues and recommend practical mitigation options to the Country Manager.

3. Governance, controls, and compliance

• Support the Country Manager in ensuring country activities comply with applicable Chevron policies, approval authorities, anti-corruption requirements, sanctions guidance, recordkeeping expectations, and local legal/regulatory obligations.
• Coordinate with Corporate Affairs, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Tax, and Supply Chain to ensure appropriate due diligence, contracting, payment, vendor, partner, and third-party controls are in place.
• Maintain visibility into key governance requirements

4. Operational readiness

• Support development and tracking of mitigation plans, readiness checklists, emergency response inputs, and business continuity considerations.
• Support Corporate Affairs in ensuring above-ground risks are integrated into business planning and decision-making, in close coordination with other subject matter experts.
• Monitor changes in the operating environment that may affect schedule, cost, access, personnel safety, partner alignment, or investment certainty.

6. Country set-up and business enablement

• Coordinate practical country set-up requirements, which may include entity establishment support, office and administrative readiness, local service providers, banking and tax considerations, staffing plans, travel protocols, security arrangements, and logistics support.
• Work with functional teams to identify minimum operating requirements for safe and compliant business presence in each country.
• Support onboarding of in-country personnel, contractors, consultants, and visiting business teams as needed.
• Drive fit-for-purpose processes that enable progress while maintaining required controls.

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