Bilingual PR Account Director at BLJ Worldwide

The Opportunity

BLJ Worldwide is on the hunt for a bilingual PR Account Director to join our Finance and Investment practice, working across key clients in various financial sectors including foreign direct investment, asset management, FinTech, and banking on a full-time basis.

We provide an up-market service designed to shape images, protect, and enhance reputations to reach and influence the people our clients want to speak to. This unique ability has made us the preferred choice among the world’s leaders in international business.

Requirements

• You will have over six years of experience in a similar in-house or agency role, excellent regional media contacts, and a proven track record of devising and implementing communications strategies to shape reputation and enhance brand visibility.
• Hold a bachelor’s degree, preferably in Communications, Journalism, International Relations, Political Science, English, or related disciplines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong decision-making ability, and attention to detail.
• English and Arabic language skills are essential. This position is a bilingual post. We will test your competency in English and Arabic.
• You should be a self-starter, with an understanding of international and current affairs and have strong communication skills to work directly with clients and the staff (at all levels) in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Engage and interact with clients daily. This is a client-facing role.
• Plan and execute client activities in a timely, efficient, and high-quality manner with minimal direction from supervisors.
• Excellent knowledge of monitoring and research tools, and ability to critically analyze findings and provide recommendations to clients.
• Understanding of how to brief tasks and provide feedback to the junior team, managing workflow to ensure that tasks are completed in a timely fashion and delivered to a high standard.
• Conduct in-depth research on topics of importance to clients.
• Create research briefings on specific topic areas and issues.
• Provide recommendations to clients proactively based on a strong understanding of their objectives and needs.
• Support and lead narrative development, and messaging workshops.
• Preparation of press material, ensuring this is delivered to a high standard.
• Assist in the development and execution of crisis-communication strategies.
• Provide client team support, attend internal meetings to gain an understanding of key issues, and seek feedback from others on a regular basis.
• Liaise with clients and ensure satisfaction with the company’s services.
• Support with out-of-hours requests as required.
• Ability to implement client brand guidelines and amend content to reflect the client’s preferred style.

How to apply

If this sounds like you, please get in touch now! Please send your CV to doha@bljworldwide.com