(Junior) Specialist, Communications

(Junior) Specialist, Communications

Role Description Summary
This position contributes to the overall remit of the Communications team to inform, and engage external audiences including general public, investors, press, customers, stakeholders within government and institutions, as well as engage and connect SESers around the world though effective communications. In addition to delivering communications support to various communications work groups, the incumbent will also be curating and creating content on specific topics for all stakeholder groups.

Primary Responsibilities / Key Result Areas

• Co-create, co-manage and co-develop comms strategy, talking points and content such as blogs, fact sheets, bylined articles, presentations and press releases for specific vertical market as well as other non-commercial departments  
• Manage public relations and communications agency to deliver the overall brand and communications strategy and activities
• Create engaging content for the company’s Intranet and coordinate the platform’s overall editorial calendar with other team members
• Create website content that increases the visibility / positive image and reputation of SES
• Support audio-visual and graphics production
• Produce communications measurement reports as required

Competencies

• Self-starter - takes initiative and proactively identifies ways to contribute to SES’s goals and missions. Shows the ability to find own motivation for achieving a task with the ability to continue to make progress under difficult circumstances.
• Accountability - holds self and others accountable for individual and team results. Accepts responsibility for mistakes. Uses resources in an efficient way; recognizes when they are being consumed inappropriately and takes steps to ensure others are accountable.
• Collaboration - establishes and maintains good working relationships; is co-operative and helps when needed while demonstrating an open-minded attitude. Shows an ability to work with others and relies on them to achieve common goals, shares information. Values the contribution of others.
• Performance Under Pressure - ability to deal with emotions in ways that keep oneself and others in good physical and emotional shape and that supports the accomplishment of business objectives.
• Problem Solving - ability to identify patterns or connections between situations that are not obviously related, and able to identify key or underlying issues in complex situations. It involves using past professional or technical training and experience, creativity, inductive reasoning.
• Agility - the extent to which the individual is able to navigate the various obstacles and challenges presented in a day in their area of expertise and push forward to achieve results.
• Customer Focus - determined to meet or exceed customer expectations. This includes being able to develop client relationships built on trust as well as delivering the appropriate solutions tailored to client needs.
• Strategic storytelling - understands that the most effective communication goes beyond technical benefits; creates (and guides others to create) messaging and content that helps employees and customers envision the enormous positive impact that SES products, services and solutions can have on their business and their users

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, or Marketing
• 3-5years of relevant work experience in public relations, corporate communications, and/or journalism
• Excellent writing skills in English for producing engaging content
• Strong interpersonal skills to manage both internal and external stakeholders
• Good organisational and priority-setting skills
• Digital savvy with a strong understanding of best practices in traditional and digital communications
• Ability to drive maximum effectiveness from external PR and communications agencies and contractors
• Passion and proven experience in driving messages/news/narratives across a range of digital and offline presence

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