Director Job, Communications at Bridge International

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Description;

Bridge International Academies is the world’s largest education innovation company serving the 700 million families who live on less than $2 USD per day. We strive to provide the highest quality education product to the more than 100,000 students who attend Bridge’s more than 400 nursery and primary schools across emerging markets in Africa and (soon to open) in Asia The first Bridge International Academy opened in the Mukuru slum in Nairobi, Kenya in 2009. Today there are hundreds and Bridge continues to expand across Africa and Asia. With a mission of Knowledge for all, Bridge plans to educate 10,000,000 children across a dozen countries by 2025.

Responsibilities:

Utilize cross functional approach to align corporate and marketing messaging and engagement.
Influence organization’s brand positioning and engagement through cross functional coordination and cooperation.
Allocate importance to organization’s business wide content from time to time and derive maximum exposure from finite internal and external media space/platforms.
Be the go–to person for the media and develop strong relationships with key Technology, Education, Development and Business media.
Lead conceptualization and production of digital, media and other relevant content.
Assist with strategic direction, and oversight for internal and external communications planning, digital and media management, media advocacy, specific issue and crisis management
Develop strong cross functional relationships and influence in all external facing Departments/Groups to ensure consistency of communication and information.
Co-own internal /external communication and engagement with critical stakeholders across the organization.
Proactively identify critical opportunities to direct/own organization’s narrative thereby averting public relations crises and building goodwill for the organization.
Suggest alteration of strategy and tactical actions when relevant.
Maximize efficiency of Corporate Communications budgets and media influence.
Adapt Organization’s shared services Corporate Communications Strategy to work effectively within local context.
Develop and implement territory specific Corporate Communications Strategy in conjunction with Organization’s Shared Services Corporate Communications Strategy.
Provide local context and input to the Shared Services team’s development of the overall organization’s Corporate Communication Strategy.
Analyze and measure results of communications initiatives.

What You Should Have

Masters’ degree with superior academic performance.
Experience in East Africa of working at a senior level for political, campaigning, non-profit, or social enterprise. Experience with a multinational organization is a plus.
Experience working within a matrixed global organization.
Experience developing communication for a campaign or movement, rather than a product.
Experience developing and delivering comprehensive media strategies and complex media campaigns across a range of platforms for a range of audiences.
High profile crisis communications experience.
Experience successfully developing and managing effective working relationships with internal and external senior stakeholders including senior journalists, broadcasters and editors.
Highly developed and proven creative skills to lead a significant communications team with flair, innovation and new ideas.
Able to present in person, as an organization spokesperson, to large audiences in a highly engaging way.
Highly developed verbal, written, and oral skills to promote and represent the organization.
Experience of offering media advice and guidance to colleagues at a senior level.
Experience building relationships and managing external partnerships from a communications perspective.
Knowledge of national government issues related to the provision of primary education.
Broad grasp of Kenya and Uganda media and political context and full understanding of all media disciplines and external media environment and experience in crisis communications.
Excellent project management and organisational skills in a communications context.
Experience of successfully managing budgets.
Prior experience within a fast-paced, metric driven consulting or educational organization is a bonus.