Communications Manager - Readverstised

 The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. We do this by making a positive contribution to the UK and the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust.

We work with over 100 countries across the world in the fields of arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. Each year we reach over 20 million people face-to-face and more than 500 million people online, via broadcasts and publications. Founded in 1934, we are a UK charity governed by Royal Charter and a UK public body.

We have been in Lebanon since 1946 and have 50 staff, including colleagues from our regional and Syria teams. Our activities are broad based, including a growing Exams business and a substantial portfolio of grant, partnership and externally funded programmes and projects across our English, Education, Arts and Society sectors.

The Opportunity

The post holder will have a successful track record of working within the corporate communications environment, specialising in either corporate communications and/or PR.  S/he will drive communications initiatives across the portfolio, will be responsible for Lebanon media relations; coordinate country digital presence working to a defined Lebanon strategy.  

The post holder will be a member of the Country Leadership Team (CLT) and will report to the Country Director in the first instance, later to the Regional or Levant Cluster Communications Manager.

Successful Candidates

• University degree and other relevant qualifications/ experience
• Experience of working in Lebanon and/or MENA
• At least 5 years’ experience working in a corporate communications role in- house or with an agency
• Direct knowledge and experience of Lebanon media networks
• A well-developed network of local media agents and service providers.
• Experience of working in a matrix management structure
• Excellent presentation abilities
• Excellent project management skills
• Fluent level of written and spoken English 
• Fluent level of written and spoken Arabic

If you are interested in applying and feel that you are suitable for the role, please apply before Friday 23 February 2018 (23:59 Lebanon Time).Please read the Role Profile carefully, check definitions of the behaviours and Core skills, and complete the application form using the ‘Guidance notes for completing application form section’ for assistance (This is found in the application form) by clicking here.

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