Vacancy: Strategic Communications Consultant
Well Told Story Consulting is
looking for talent to join its Strategic Communications team
Well Told Story Consulting helps organizations realise their potential for positive change by promoting the power and importance of good communications - to maximise success and create impacts at scale.
Well Told Story Consulting helps organizations realise their potential for positive change by promoting the power and importance of good communications - to maximise success and create impacts at scale.
We work with clients’ teams
to design and plan strategies, mentor staff and improve skills.
The role: Strategic Communications Consultant
We are looking for a curious and inspirational associate who is keen to learn new skills and share them with others.
The role: Strategic Communications Consultant
We are looking for a curious and inspirational associate who is keen to learn new skills and share them with others.
Applicants will be judged on
their willingness and ability to learn new skills rather than their particular
knowledge of strategic communications.
We are committed to investing
time and money to train the ideal candidate. In this role you will:
1. Commit to a period of intensive training, shadowing a mentor and learning Well Told Story Consulting’s unique methodology.
1. Commit to a period of intensive training, shadowing a mentor and learning Well Told Story Consulting’s unique methodology.
- Show a desire
to learn new skills and identify gaps where further training is needed
2. Independently
review/create strategies for six clients by close of first twelve months
- Independently
provide strategic communications advice to clients that include academics,
technical experts, ministry officials and junior staff with varying levels
of expertise
- Politely cold
call and interview clients, funders and donors at all levels of expertise
and rank
- Review client
communications and provide inclusive remedial advice in a timely, logical
and easy to execute manner
- Support clients
to develop realistic, implementable communications strategies that deliver
measurable change
- Lead strategy
process in excellent spoken English (and other languages if possible)
- Write well
reasoned clear strategies and reports in excellent written English
3. Mentor six teams in the
first year
- Lead teams of
diverse clients (international and national, skilled and unskilled,
private and public sector) to successful and timely strategy execution
- Lead and
present to meetings that include ministers and programme officers, junior
staff and CEOs
- Identify client
capacity gaps and design strategies to address them
- Mentor clients
in strategic communications design
- Design and
provide tailored communications training modules for clients
4. Bring in two new clients
within the first year and contribute to bringing in four more
- Strategically
manage contacts and team communications to optimise all abilities,
maximise work effectiveness and appeal to new clients
- Seek out
clients in both public and private sectors who share Well Told Story
Consulting’s social justice ethos
- Work with team
to write proposals and react to sales leads
- Self-sign
clients and use existing networks to seek new business
- Work with team
to write proposals and react to sales leads
- Use social
media and the full digital spectrum – from video to MailChimp - to seek
work and market to clients
5. Improve Well Told
Story Consulting’s and your own offering to clients
- Engage in
regular personal evaluation and improvement
- Communicate
transparently with team for maximum self and team improvement
- Identify
opportunities to productise and help to productise Well Told Story
Consulting offering
- Identify areas
of improvement for self and team
- Engage in
additional training (self) where gaps have been identified
Desired Competencies,
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience
- Exceptional
written (English) communication skills
- Excellent
verbal (English) communication skills
- Fluent
Kiswahili
- Experience of
living, working or studying abroad
- A minimum of 5
years experience of independently working in a dynamic environment
- Digitally
proficient in a variety of programmes and suites
- Experience in
the private sector
- Experience
working with development practitioners and government
- Experience of
juggling responsibilities and an understanding of logistical requirements
- Experience
working with technical experts or academic researchers
- A commitment to
deliver quality work on deadline
- Likes to work
independently
- Exemplary
project management skills with a proven track-record of successful
delivery
- Natural
leadership skills with the ability to guide, mentor, educate and support
- A good team
player and a problem solver with the ability to recognize and mitigate
internal conflicts and curate relationships with external partners and
clients
- Innovative
thinker with strong analytical skills, curiosity and an interest in
expanding his/her knowledge in the areas relevant for Well Told Story
Consulting’s success
Want to join our team?
Tell us why you would make a
great addition by emailing your application together with your CV to
jobs@wts.co.ke by 9am, Monday 3rd October 2016 with Well Told Story Consulting
in the message line.
Failure to apply on time or correctly will indicate an inability to perform the role.
Failure to apply on time or correctly will indicate an inability to perform the role.