Department Head – External Public Relations

5 days ago

Muscat, Muscat, Oman Nawras Full time
Department Head – External Public Relations

As a Department Head - External Public Relations you will be required to manage and administer the company's English communication, handling day to day management of the agency of choice, applying for and organising ExCo's attendance at the national and regional conferences.
You will be expected to apply for awards and supervise PR ensuring all actions to be in line with company's values and mission and its social corporate responsibility.

The role will include:

  1. Planning and organising press events, ensuring excellent delivery and execution.
  2. Working closely with events, sponsorship and comms teams.
  3. Liaising with Ooredoo PR team for group wide initiatives and share Nawras activities with the Group.

You will be responsible for managing the agency of choice in the preparation of English written, verbal communication materials, coordinating with relevant people and departments to gather necessary information for the various external and internal comms channels such as Nawras website, intranet, press releases, SMS, MCN, social networking (blogs, forums, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) etc.

Your responsibility shall also include the following:

  1. Planning, driving and coordinating development of case studies, articles, interviews for/with journalists featuring Nawras.
  2. Recording share of voice, revenue of press clippings on a daily/monthly basis with a view to maintaining and growing recognition.
  3. Preparing weekly report of activities.
  4. Submitting proposals for telecom awards driving Nawras reputation as an innovative, leading telco in the Middle East region - range from technical, engineering, HR, CEO of the Year awards etc.
  5. Submit proposals for conferences on behalf of ExCo and ensure all arrangements made for ExCo speaking engagements, including overseeing preparation of presentations and white papers.
  6. Assisting department head in formulating annual media and communication plan.

To be considered for this role you should have a degree in journalism corporate affairs or a similar subject with minimum of 8 years (related) of experience, in which 3 to 4 in English language publications.
Translation skills
Strong Communication skills.
Excellent negotiation skills.
Organisation skills
Fluent English & Arabic (written & spoken)
Outgoing
MS Office skills.

About The Company

Omani Qatari Telecommunications Company SAOG was founded and registered in the Sultanate of Oman in December 2004. It launched its service in March 2005 as the second mobile operator in Oman operating under the name Nawras. Nawras is majority owned by the Qtel Group, the leading telecommunications provider in Qatar and one of the world's leading telecommunications companies.

As a company, Nawras embodies extensive global and local expertise with talented, caring people. While we are a state-of-the-art full service telecommunication provider, we have a deep understanding of the Omani culture and the diverse population living in the Sultanate, allowing us to provide our customers with the highest levels of user-friendly technology and customer satisfaction, while giving our people opportunities to grow and develop their abilities.

Nawras is looking for ambitious team players that can bring an international mindset to our local company. In turn we are providing a unique working environment, a chance to grow professionally and the opportunity to cultivate an exciting future with constant skill development.

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