Lead, Fed Policy & Advocacy – Tax/LNG

District of Columbia, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Corporate Relations

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

January 12, 2026

Business Unit:

CoS and Corporate Relations

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

Shell’s success in the U.S. energy market depends on proactive and successful engagement with federal policymakers. As Lead, Federal Policy & Advocacy, you will shape and execute strategies that influence federal policy outcomes, protect Shell’s interests, and unlock opportunities for growth.

This senior leadership role requires exceptional judgment, collaborative behaviors, strategic thinking, strong relationships, and the ability to translate federal policy priorities into S.M.A.R.T. objectives that deliver measurable impact. 

Reporting to the Head of U.S. Policy Advocacy in Washington, D.C., the Lead will oversee a team of federal policy and advocacy professionals and manage a defined portfolio area. You will ensure Shell enhances its influence in Washington, D.C., captures federal policy opportunities, and mitigates risk through strategic engagement and policy leadership, while fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing across internal and external teams. 

Specifically, this role will be responsible for leading federal policy and advocacy for a portfolio of Shell's activities in the U.S. that includes: corporate tax (e.g., BEAT) & energy project tax credits (45s); tariffs and trade (including maritime policy, LNG trading, crude trading); federal climate policy (e.g. EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program); and domestic power trading.

This is one of several Lead, Federal P&A roles within the U.S. P&A team, each managing a distinct portfolio. Together, these Leads report to the Head of U.S. Policy Advocacy and collaborate to advance Shell's federal policy priorities.

Core Accountabilities

• Develop S.M.A.R.T. objectives in partnership with the lines of business within your portfolio

• Shape legislative and regulatory outcomes on policies within your portfolio

• Engage and direct others to engage U.S. Treasury Department, the Department of Commerce, the USTR, FERC and other agencies relevant to your portfolio; key congressional committees (SFC, HW&M, House E&C); and congressional offices to advance Shell's policies

• Direct technical comments, briefings, and testimony

• Draft statutory language and regulatory comments and provide impact analyses on policies that may impact businesses within your portfolio

• Lead and manage a team of individual contributors and direct outside consultants

Success Measures / KPIs

• Advance policies that protect and enhance Shell's U.S. tax, trade, climate, maritime, and power trading portfolios

• Secure federal policies that protect and enhance Shell's position as a leading off-taker of U.S. LNG

• Secure federal climate policy priorities that protect Shell investments, improve the U.S. investment climate, and enable decarbonization through customer choice

• Advance federal permitting policy priorities (legislative and regulatory) that encourage the construction of power generation and transmission in the U.S. in direct support of and alignment with Shell's power trading business

• Achieve S.M.A.R.T. objectives that are developed in partnership with the lines of business within your portfolio

Compliance & Ethics

• Model Shell’s safety, ethics, transparency, and anti‑corruption standards in all federal advocacy activities

• Ensure full adherence to LDA, FEC, House/Senate rules, agency ex parte protocols, and Shell internal controls

• Maintain accurate, timely records of advocacy, meetings, deliverables, and expenditures

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis for anyone other than the current employer

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in law or public policy strongly preferred

• 10–15 years in federal energy and environment policy and advocacy; expertise in key federal tax and trade statutes impacting Shell's U.S. portfolio, such as the Natural Gas Act, the Federal Power Act, key corporate and energy project provision of the Internal Revenue Code, Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, and Section 301 of the Trade Act

• Experience working with corporations and trade associations required; prior in-house experience for a corporation or trade association strongly preferred

• Mastery of legislative and rulemak