PR & Communications Director at BLJ Worldwide

The Opportunity

You will be working with some of Qatar’s leading communications professionals and will have the opportunity to develop your career in international PR and digital communications. We also offer a competitive compensation package and creative learning and development opportunities, as well as access to a wealth of knowledge and information tools. If you are a Doha-based communications professional looking for a new opportunity at a growing agency with a fantastic team, please get in touch with us!

At BLJ Worldwide, we pride ourselves on offering a friendly environment in which our talent is nurtured to grow. You will be working with some of Qatar’s leading communications professionals and will have the opportunity to establish and develop your career in international PR and digital communications. We also offer a competitive compensation package and creative learning and development opportunities, as well as access to a wealth of knowledge and information tools to get you started.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple client accounts, relationships, and teams. This is a client-facing leadership role
• Direct client activities in a timely, efficient, and high-quality manner with little to no oversight
• Provide strategic direction to teams on accounts, briefing, and managing workflow as necessary.
• Strategic understanding of the value of analytics in campaign development and success, including knowledge of relevant tools and applications.
• Ability to direct media and public affairs initiatives, including outreach to media, analyzing policy matters, developing briefings on a wide range of issues, offering government affairs strategies, engaging with stakeholders in multiple sectors, and overseeing social media content and strategy.
• Provide strategic recommendations to clients proactively based on a strong understanding of their objectives and needs
• Direct crisis-communication strategies.
• Provide high-level input to the narrative creation process and messaging workshops, shaping discussions to meet client objectives.
• Excellent relationship with clients, anticipating how they will respond to different situations and ability to identify opportunities to refine, improve, and upsell services.
• Leadership position, providing feedback and support to junior team members and sitting on the leadership team of the wider office.
• Line management responsibilities for team members.
• Provide strategic direction on new business, leading and coaching juniors and attending pitches as required; identifying and securing new business opportunities regularly.
• Liaise with clients and ensure satisfaction with the company’s services.
• Provide client team support, run internal meetings to gain an understanding of key issues, and provide feedback to account teams on a regular basis.
• Seek out and set up networking opportunities, out-of-hours if required on a monthly basis.
• Actively network with contacts, journalists, and key stakeholder

To successfully apply on this role you will:

• Responsible for driving the growth of the business by staying on the pulse of client, people,and business needs, including the development of new offerings.
• Leadership of multiple account teams and within the wider office.
• Senior client-facing role.
• Provide overall direction to the account team and wider business and manage challenging situations.
• Lead on crisis-communication strategies
• Consult across messaging, narrative, and strategic communications development for clients, including coaching and training of internal teams to upskill as needed.
• Provide strategic direction on new business, leading and coaching juniors and attending new business pitches; identifying and securing new business opportunities
• Generate external visibility for the business through thought leadership.Able to delegate tasks, provide feedback to juniors, and oversee the smooth running of accounts.
• Confident in handling client requests and providing recommendations.
• Able to lead messaging, narrative, and strategic communications development for clients.
• Able to run new business proposals, and lead pitch teams.

Requirements

• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to handle simultaneous tasks with composure and accuracy while prospering in a dynamic & and fast-paced environment.
• Strong team leader who naturally possesses selfless, amicable, and supportive personal characteristics.
• Excellent knowledge of sector composition, trends, and current affairs.
• Excellent understanding of wider political, legislative, commercial, and competitive content and its application to the sector. Strong understanding of how to use this to inform advice to clients.
• Willingness to share expert knowledge with colleagues at all levels.
• Demonstrate behaviours consistent with BLJ’s values and ensure the company aspires to and achieves the highest ethical standards.

How to apply

If this sounds like you, please get in touch now and drop your CV here: https://bljworldwide.bamboohr.com/careers/43