Internal Communications Specialist
First Abu Dhabi Bank
Total years of experience :14 years, 10 months
Provide professional advice and guidance to FAB employees on internal communications best practice, including implementation of the brand.
Responsible for the intranet banners and announcements, and take a key role, with relevant sta in IT to manage the intranet pages.
Responsible for corporate writing and design of emailers for a diverse range of audiences and purposes.
Create communications plan and campaigns to build community, promote activities, and contribute to employee engagement and culture-building e orts on behalf of the client that contribute to employee engagement. This includes internal messages, surveys and e-greetings for the Bank’s international o ces.
Work with internal and external parties on internal communications projects.
Communicate and monitor the internal communications program so that the internal stakeholders across the Bank are informed of the organisational news, issues and direction.
Maintain high-quality editorial by ensuing internal messages are presented simply, clearly and consistently in all stories.
Translate from English to Arabic and vice versa.
Photography - Take photos of employees on internal occasions and use
them on e-greetings such as Mother’s Day and International Women’s Day.
Manage Key Relationships:
Work with the Bank’s senior management on their campaigns, sta events and town-halls.
Connect with the Bank’s international o ces to support them on releasing information related to new projects.
Connect with local internal and external stakeholders to support business growth.
Capitalise on relationships to set priorities and drive achievement of the team’s objectives.
Maintain a network of key relationships inside and outside the business to expand their knowledge and in uence.
Established as the go-to person for a number of departments in handling their projects. Some of them are for the entire sta, while others are meant for smaller, more targeted audiences.
Coordinate with the Alternate Banking Channels’ Heads on achieving their monthly targets and objectives.
Review and update the Statement of Product Work, ATM Agreements, Feasibility Study, Service Level Agreements, Business User Manuals, Business Impact Analysis, Continuity Plans and Monthly Reports.
Attend meetings with the Director, and prepare the minutes of meeting.
Provide marketing content on a number of campaigns.
Review marketing material and edit them when required.
Translate documents from English to Arabic and vice versa.
Major: Mass Communication Concentration: Advertising. Minor: Eng/Ara Translation and Interpreting. Cumulative Average: 2.96 / 4 (Good) Courses completed: Fundamentals of Marketing, Writing for Visual Media, Mass Communication Research Methods, Mass Media Law and Ethics, Advertising Copy and Layout, Advertising Media Planning, Advertising Campaigns, Media Concepts and designs, Graphic Communication, Theoratical and Practical Issues in Translation, Interpreting: Focus on the Community, Translating in a Global Context, Modern Media Translation, and Translation Evaluation and History.