Working with SCA
These answers explain the scope of SCA’s work and how an assignment is agreed. Contact SCA to discuss the decision or issue you are working through.
Services and sectors
Social Capital Advisory advises on stakeholder engagement and corporate affairs. SCA works in energy, resources and infrastructure, across the public and private sectors. The Services page sets out the two service families and the work within them.
Delivery arrangements
Travel and other delivery arrangements are agreed for each assignment. Chris Hanna does the work himself, and where a piece of work needs more than one person, SCA partners with senior practitioners in their own disciplines.
Experience
Chris founded SCA after fifteen years in South Australian politics and the energy sector. That includes eight years as a senior political adviser and seven years in corporate affairs at a South Australian energy network business, with senior roles throughout, including leading the function.
How an assignment is agreed
The first conversation establishes the decision or issue, the information available, the work required and the timing. SCA then prepares a written scope and quote covering the deliverables, responsibilities, review stages and delivery arrangements. Each piece of work is scoped and quoted before it starts; changes to the agreed work need to be discussed and agreed.
Reviewing existing work
SCA can review an engagement plan or communications material prepared by another team. The review is scoped around the decision, audience and questions the organisation needs answered, with findings and recommended changes agreed as the output.
Conflicts and confidentiality
SCA discloses in writing any interest that conflicts or could conflict with a client’s before a piece of work starts and again if anything changes. It does not act for two clients whose interests conflict on the same matter, and does not use confidential information from any former employer or client.
Starting a conversation
Every enquiry comes to Chris Hanna directly and he answers it himself. Use the contact page, email chris.hanna@socialcapitaladvisory.com.au or call 0478 181 955. Arrangements for sharing sensitive material can be discussed before it is provided.
Start with what
you need to decide
SCA defines the engagement or corporate affairs work the decision ahead needs. The first conversation establishes the issue, timing and information available.