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QUALIFICATIONS• MA or advanced degree in communications, PR, or related field.• 7+ years communications experience preferably corporate communications/PR.• At least four years of experience managing people.• Experience in communication strategy development and implementation.• Experience in media or managing media stakeholders.• Experience in engaging with the government organs and stakeholders.• Experience supporting internal communications and/or employee engagement.• Experience working with creative teams do develop content and campaigns.• People management skills, including talent development.• Ability to interface with senior leaders and global colleagues in a professional, appropriate, and inclusive manner anddemonstrate discretion as needed.• Proven ability to operate an accelerated pace and meet business objectives.• An established relationship with media practitioners.• Awareness of and proficiency with communications technologies.• Experience in stakeholder/community engagement.• Clear and concise communication with team members and senior management.• Strong and confident leadership.• Ability to delegate and assign tasks based on shifting priorities.• Strong writer, storyteller, and content producer.• Proven ability to ambiguous situations and unexpected requests, events, or crises.• Preferably be of Swahili mother tongue with excellent fluency in English (speaking and writing).• Content writing and production experience for all media platforms: mainstream, digital, alternative, and folk.• Great multitasker and capable of simultaneously managing multiple projects with different deadlines.• Strong knowledge of communication practices and techniques.• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES• Manage the planning, developing and implementation the companies internal and external communication strategy (long term and short term) and monitor their success.• Create, Acquire, and maintain a detailed knowledge of the company’s policies, principles, and strategies, and keep up to date with relevant developments.• Manage the company’s adherence to style guide and value and quality control of information released.• Manage and supervise the creation and dissemination of internal and external communication content and planning of events.• Manage the budget, monitoring, and evaluation of the Project communications activities.• Coordinate and guarantee the smooth running of all communications activities.• Ensure Provision communication support to the project and cooperate teams.• Establish and maintain a strong effective network and working relationships with media representatives, local and municipal government officials, national business, and trade contacts.• Serve as the primary point of contact for media.• Manage communication around the project goodwill activities.• Participate in the crisis management team.• Develop brand & communications training calendar and oversee execution.• Supervise and support the development of corporate communications team.• Managing a communications budget.• Work with key internal role-players to brainstorm content ideas, in line with the company’s strategy and in support of various brand initiatives.• Support and evaluate results of communication campaigns with the team.• Build and maintain relationships with journalists and key external role-players.• Coordinate with global counterparts to share best practices, leveraging communications collateral and/or resources where appropriate.