Meropa Port Elizabeth is seeking a Senior Consultant to join a growing team in the Eastern Cape. The position is Port Elizabeth based and would be specifically geared to assist on the Coega Development Corporation account, but also to work across other clients locally, regionally and nationally at times.
We are looking for a creative, strategic, hardworking team-orientated Senior Consultant who understands both the public and private sector, is an implementer as well as a strategist, and can multi-task and cope with high pressure situations.
- Remuneration: Cost to company
- Location: Port Elizabeth
- Education level: Degree and five yearsâ experience
- Job level: Senior
- Type: Permanent
Key Competencies:
- Excellent media relations
- Stakeholder management skills
- Strategy and creativity
- Ability to drive new business
- Exceptional language skills
- Exceptional writing skills, including the ability to: Write a media release and angle it for different types of media (print, electronic, digital) and for different types of use (news, feature, thought leadership, column, etc); Write proposals, reports and edit documents; and Pay attention to detail â particularly for literals, spelling mistakes.
- English proficiency
- Computing skills
- Management skills
- General skills including appropriate qualifications; appropriate PR experience; and administrative and client interface skills.
Requirements:
- Degree or relevant qualification in journalism/PR/Communications
- At least 5-years of PR or related experience
- PC, and Microsoft Office proficiency
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational and research skills
- A drivers licence with own car
Advantageous: Knowledge of socio-economic and industrial development and proficiency in Annual Report development.
To apply for this position, please submit your CV with a letter of motivation, your availability, your salary expectation, as well as two to three contactable references via email to us as follows (without these, your application will not be considered): laurenj@meropa.co.za; joanneb@meropa.co.za and amys@meropa.co.za.
The deadline for applications is Friday 11 April, 2014 at 2pm. If you do not hear back from us, consider your application unsuccessful.
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