Senior Manager: Communication and Media
Job description
About the job Senior Manager: Communication and Media
MinimumRequirements:
- 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 Companiesreputation
- Developing and implementing a Group-wide issues response and crisis communicationsmechanisms
- 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 corporateannouncements
- Maximising the dissemination of media coverage
- Crafting effective press releases, media advisories, and media kits, often under pressure and withlimited time
- Serving as strategic advisor to Group stakeholders as well as media partners across the Group onstrategic issues
- Guiding media partners across the Group in support of compliance with relevant policies andstandards
- 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, includingadvice 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 andstory boldly, and visibly
- Managing and/or working with agency partners on selected projects