To plan, develop, direct and disseminate communications across all channels and audiences for the group;to manage and provide client-side direction to the group's communications agencies; to own the digitaland social media presence of the group's operating companies; and to support the planning and executionof corporate events while ensuring consistency of voice, quality of output, narrative coherence, andtimeliness of delivery across the group.**

Qualification & Experience**• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing, or a related field.**A postgraduate qualification is an added advantage. • Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in corporate communications, public relations or integrated communications • Demonstrated experience managing communications and PR agencies as a client-side counterpart, including briefing, scope management, quality control and performance oversight. • Demonstrated experience managing digital and social media for a corporate brand, including platform analytics and reputation monitoring. • Hands-on event management experience, including high-profile corporate or government-facing events. • Experience working with both local and international PR agencies is required.

Skills & Competencies:**

• Outstanding written and verbal communication in English; ability to write across registers from regulatory submissions to social posts. • Sharp news sense and instinctive understanding of audience, channel and timing. • Strong project and event management discipline; able to manage multiple workstreams concurrently under deadline pressure. • Comfortable working with senior leadership and capable of producing executive-grade outputs with minimal rework. • Calm, composed and reliable under crisis or high-stakes conditions. • Strong client-side agency management skills; able to brief, direct, review and hold agencies accountable to scope and quality. • Discreet and trustworthy with sensitive information. • Strong digital and analytics fluency, including platform-native content thinking and performance measurement