Lead, Corporate Communication

• Draft, edit, translate and quality-check press releases, key messages, talking points, speeches, presentations, executive communications, internal memos, email campaigns, annual report, and marketing collateral, with guidance and approval from the VP.
• Support employee communications on organisational developments, strategic projects, executive activities and other significant updates.
• Adapt content for different channels and audiences, ensuring it is relevant, engaging, accessible and appropriate in tone.
• Review content drafted for social media, print, email and other relevant channels.
• Maintain editorial calendars and campaign schedules to ensure communications are coordinated and delivered at the right time.

Media, Executive & Event Support:

• Support the Bank’s core businesses with media materials, including press releases, key messages, Q&As, speeches and presentation content.
• Support social media team with drafting/editing content posts across the platforms.
• Review and evaluate requests for Bank representatives to participate in external events, assess strategic relevance and business value, and recommend whether and how to participate.
• Review invitations addressed to the Group CEO and prepare briefing documents covering the event’s purpose, audience, value, risks and recommended course of action.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external partners to ensure spokespersons and executives are appropriately prepared.

Reputation, Issues & Crisis Communications:

• Monitor emerging issues, stakeholder sentiment and reputational risks, escalating concerns promptly to the VP of Communications.
• Support the development and implementation of issues-management and crisis-communications plans.
• Support in translating (to Arabic) holding statements, key messages, Q&As, briefing documents and stakeholder responses for sensitive or time-critical matters.

Frameworks, Boundaries, & Decision-Making Authority:

• Manage the day-to-day delivery of public relations and external communications activities in line with strategies and plans approved by the Group Marketing and Communications Head and VP.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with journalists, media outlets and relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate agency workflows and Marketing and Brand team inputs ensuring deliverables are completed on time.
• Ensure all materials comply with the Bank’s brand standards, legal and regulatory requirements, data-protection obligations and established approval processes.
• Escalate sensitive media enquiries, potential crisis, significant reputational risks to the VP of Communications.
• Manage the PR&Media inbox and ensure timely responses to emails on a daily basis.

REQUIREMENTS / QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree (2:1 classification or equivalent) in communications, journalism, media, marketing, English or a related discipline.
• 6 to 8 years of relevant communications experience, ideally within a corporate, financial-services, professional-services or communications-agency environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing senior stakeholders, complex briefs and integrated communications campaigns from planning through evaluation.

Knowledge, Skills & Attributes:

• Poven track record of developing and delivering integrated public relations and corporate communications strategies aligned with business objectives and priorities
• Strong media relations capabilities including building journalist relationships, identifying compelling stories and securing positive coverage.
• Excellent stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to build trust, understand senior leaders’ needs and offer constructive counsel.
• Exceptional English and Arabic writing, editing and proofreading skills, with strong knowledge of the media landscape and relevant digital and social channels.
• Resilient and composed particularly when responding to urgent media enquiries, sensitive issues or shifting business priorities
• Proactive, collaborative and solutions-oriented approach, with the ability to work effectively across functions and markets.
• High standards, attention to detail and a clear commitment to quality and measurable outcomes.

Source: First Abu Dhabi Bank careers page