Job Description

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