Senior Manager: Communication and Media

Minimum Requirements:

- Matric (Grade 12)

- Minimum experience in mid-senior media relations role: 5 yrs
Journalism experience preferrable

- Good understanding of business and financial matters, essential.

- Preferred qualifications: Degree in related field

Responsibilities:

- Managing incidents and issues as they arise in the interest of protecting and building the Companies reputation

- Developing and implementing a Group-wide issues response and crisis communications mechanisms

- Managing media queries promptly, appropriately, and efficiently

- Developing executive-level content and thought leadership from concept to writing

- Developing appropriate media strategies, tactical plans and content in relation to corporate announcements

- Maximising the dissemination of media coverage

- Crafting effective press releases, media advisories, and media kits, often under pressure and with limited time

- Serving as strategic advisor to Group stakeholders as well as media partners across the Group on strategic issues

- Guiding media partners across the Group in support of compliance with relevant policies and standards

- Developing or guiding social media and website content where appropriate

- Arranging media-related visual elements (e.g. photography, videography, broadcasting)

- Producing media and/ or integrated reports daily, monthly, quarterly, annually and ad hoc, including advice and recommendations

- Monitoring and reporting live issues and providing strategic advice

- Proactively identifying media opportunities

- Maintaining media lists

- Maintaining the Group spokespersons list and advising spokespersons to improve effectiveness

- Arranging / supporting / facilitating media training.
Ensuring alignment with Group strategic themes and narrative across all content

- Profiling of our capabilities, expertise, and functional prowess and leadership

- Strategy key media relations services in support of building a universal, cohesive and bold reputation, narrative and story

- Support corporate communications in proactively shaping a universal cohesive external narrative and story boldly, and visibly

- Managing and/or working with agency partners on selected projects

Originally posted on Himalayas