Senior Manager, Public Relations and Corporate Communications

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION & REQUIREMENTS

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in communications, Public Relations, or a related field from a recognized university.
  
• Possession of a professional certification in Marketing or Public Relations will be an added advantage.
  
• Have a minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience, with expertise demonstrated in:
  • Corporate Communications
    
  • Public Relations
    
  • Media Relations
    
• Have at least 5 years’ experience in:
  • Brand Management
    
  • Stakeholder Management
    
  • People Management
    
• Have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in:
  • Protocol Management
    
  • Employee Engagement
    

• Implementing the organization's public relations and corporate communications strategy within prescribed guidelines and budgets.
  
• Identify and capitalize on opportunities to promote and positively represent the organization through external communication including public speaking and thought leadership opportunities for the executive leadership.
  
• Creating and managing valuable media partnerships and engagement plans and facilitate media visibility and publicity for all corporate events, functions and activities
  
• Ensure that all corporate communications generated by the Bank align to the Brand communications policies and procedures, represents the corporate identity and promotes the organizations mission.
  
• Develop appropriate metrics for measuring impact of corporate communication initiatives and provide appropriate reports on the ROI on corporate communications engagements.
  
• Work with other communications teams across the Group subsidiaries to ensure there is cohesive, consistent messaging and communications across the Group.
  
• Provide subject matter expertise to the design, production and editing of corporate publications and press information and writing and editing the Bank's publication materials and corporate events launches.
  
• Developing effective crisis response communications to mitigate the publicity reputational risks.
  
• Coordinating all external public relations initiatives including public speaking opportunities for Executives, partnerships events, stakeholder engagement forums, corporate advertisements, media supplements and development of documentaries.
  
• Originating speeches, statements, profiles and other forms of corporate communications for executive leadership.