Communications Manager
Silatech
Total years of experience :23 years, 1 Months
Core:
- Conceptualizes Silatech’s core communication strategy, & overseeing its planning in coordination with various Silatech BUs.
- Responsible for developing appropriate brand & messaging strategies, varying depending on audience & objective, & for the implementation of such strategy across the organization.
- Responsible for direction of communications & marketing content to strengthen the Silatech brand as well as support in the marketing of products & services offered by Silatech business units.
Responsibilities:
- Plan, develop & implement the Communications strategy for Silatech, utilizing public relations & traditional media, online platforms, social media, events, video & animation, & direct outreach in order to support the agreed upon Silatech strategy.
- Manage & control departmental expenditure within agreed budgets.
- Consult with Business Units to obtain information on programs or services, understand objectives & audiences, & discuss style & length of content copy.
- Coordinate media & publicity strategies with partner organizations as needed.
- Ensure that the Silatech brand & reputation are strong within the regional youth development ecosystem, &, where appropriate, among the general youth population.
- Conceptualize the structure, design & content of the Silatech Website.
- Work collaboratively with the Communications team & business units to develop concepts for advertising campaigns; scripts for audio, video, & animation production; new content for current/new websites, blogs, & social media outlets. Overall responsibility for quality.
- Oversee articles, press releases, marketing copy, Web content, blog posts & other related informative, marketing & promotional material as needed, varying language & tone of messages based on program, medium, audience, & country.
- Develop training & support materials to build communications capacity for regional youth-focused organizations.
- Manage stakeholders relationship, & internal communications.
Job Description:
- Management of Marketing & Communications Operations Regionally (West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Syria)
- Design/Develop/Implement Marketing Strategies/Policies
- Corporate ID/Brand Management/Implementation across all operational regions (Being digital / print)
- Marketing Communications Budgeting & Budget Planning
- Manage/Implement Social Networking Strategies and eMarketing Strategies
- Lead/Coordinate Market Research activities
- Digital/Print Marketing Communications Production Management
- Design/Implement corporate Print/Digital collateral
- Maintain / Develop corporate Photography Archive
- Direct / Implement corporate Photography work
- Account/Client relations management
- Design/Implement and enforce Sales and Marketing communications Strategies
- Provide leadership, expertise and professional advice to the Company on sales matters to ensure that the Company’s business objectives are supported with the right sales & marketing strategy.
- Develop and gain agreement to Marketing/Sales strategies (Commercial), plans and budgets to support the implementation and realization of agreed corporate business strategies.
- Artistic / Creative Direction to Design/Production department including graphic design for publications, websites, branding and professional photography.
- Maximize growth of revenue in the assigned segment.
- Financial Budgeting planning and monitoring.
- Management and maintenance of photo bank
Job Description:
Commercial Management of the Jerusalem/Arab 48 Zones
- Responsible for all Commercial, Marketing Communications activities of Interpalnet in all Zones
- Responsible for all Customer Care & Satisfaction
- Responsible for all Direct/In-Direct Sales Activities (being Residential or Corporate Sales)
- Creative Direction on all Marketing Communications concerned with Managed Zones
- Maximize growth of revenue in the assigned segment.
- Coordinate/Communicate with all organizational Unites, being Technical, Customer Care, Development, and executive, to ensure customer satisfaction, and to ensure all Company Aims/Objectives/Planning is met to the utmost of levels
Information Management Unit (IMU)
- OCHA oPt Website Development / Maintenance
- Databases Management / Design
- Information Management
- Head of Creative Direction / In-house Graphic Design / Print & Digital Publication
Project Sample: Program Manager - Partnership Grant Program - Welfare Association Consortium - PMO / YDD / American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
Job Description:
- Managing all the projects activities and coordinate with donors, other networks, PA and NGOs
- Development of detailed project action plans
- Setting-up the financial and administrative policies and procedures
- Preparing terms of references and contracts for training and consultants, monitoring and evaluation of consultant services and outputs
- Budget monitoring
- Monitoring the project activities and providing performance reports
- Monitoring service agreements and procurements
- Communications & Public Relations, (in-house Webmaster / Graphic Design)
Project Sample: Sector Support Program - Capacity Building (SSP) - The Welfare Association Consortium for the Management of the Palestinian NGO Project / World Bank.
(Short Term Project Saving & Recovery Assignment)
Job Description:
- Managing all the projects activities and coordinate with donors, other networks, PA and NGOs
- Development of detailed project action plans
- Setting-up the financial and administrative policies and procedures
- Preparing terms of references and contracts for training and consultants, monitoring and evaluation of consultant services and outputs
- Budget monitoring
- Monitoring the project activities and providing performance reports
- Monitoring service agreements and procurements
- Communications
Project Sample: Partnership Project - Welfare - PMO / UCS / The Center of the Initiative for Europe (CIE)
a. Early Childhood Education Challenge: Palestinian and Italian
b. Engagement in Capacity Building, Pedagogical Development and Community Involvement
Job Description:
- UCS representative
- Co-ordinating the renovation programs and sub-grants’ progress and implementation
- Coordination for the UCS Capacity Building programs
- Co-ordinating with CIE in Italy and in Palestine and with Palestinian recipient NGOs/ CBOs and service institutions
- Reference Person of the Project Communication between the UCS - CIE, Welfare Association, and relevant parties
- Public Relations / communications assistant to the UCS P.R Officer
- Newsletter Design and Editing
Job Description:
- Project management, implementation and evaluation. Such projects can be identified in the areas of:
- Education
- Organisational development in the music / arts industry
- Training projects
- Industry assessment projects
- Project acquisition
- Trade Faire Venue management in the Music / Arts industry
- Business systems design, planning, & implementation
- Head of in-house graphic design - web design & printed publications, & heading the creative marketing team
HCAT: Is the umbrella, non-governmental, organisation for the whole of the private sector of the Palestinian Tourism & Hospitality industry, holding within the various associations of the industry, such as: Arab Hotel Association, Arab Guides’ Union, Association of Travel Agents, Airlines Association, Association of Tour Operators, Tourist Transport Association, Restaurant Association, etc.
GTZ: Is under the German Ministry of Development
Please note that the job is a joint position, as in the employment is by the GTZ and the coordination and consultancy is for the HCAT
Job Description:
- Project management & implementation for the Arab Hospitality & Tourism industry, such projects included
- The Modern Technology Project, (approx. budget 6.3 million USD).
- The design and implementation of a complete & centralized / unified web-gate/reservations system for all the country’s tourist areas/companies (i.e. E-Commerce)
- The installation of the CRS (central reservations system) software in each and every company/organisation in the industry & the training of the users
- Full Marketing and Advertising plan before and after the launch
- Tourism Area Development, (approx. budget 12 million USD).
- The development project is a unified cooperation project between the governing bodies / municipalities of each region in Palestine and various development organisations such as the UNDP, USAID, DAI, governments of Japan and the European Representative Offices. Such development mainly targeted infrastructure, (Roads, Sanitation, Water / Electricity / Telecommunications, etc.)
- Budget allocation & small tourism business project development
- Training Project
- Local and international trade fair management
- In-house database management and graphic design
Aelia Infocom Ltd. is a networking, web & database design company, that was one of the market leading companies for Dynamic Web Content Publishing (D.W.C.P)
Job Description:
- New account creation & sales management
- Account management, account list (Website / Database Design)
- Account marketing consultancy / Customer Service - this is in relation to the design & advertising aspects for the managed accounts
- Head of design & production - web design & printed publications, & heading the creative marketing team
NOTE: Aelia Infocom Ltd. has currently been overtaken by another company, and is now running under the name of Al-Qudsnet (http://www.alqudsnet.com).
Modules: The subjects include Marketing Management, Communications Management, Human Resource Management, Food and Beverage Management (incl. Beverage Management & Control, Service Management, Food Hygiene & Safety, Health & Nutrition), Operations Management, International Tourism & Leisure Management, Accommodation Management, etc. Project-Msc.: The Management of Change in the Hospitality Industry; Hotel 7 Arches Jerusalem / Hotel Inter Continental Jerusalem Case Study. Project Pgd.: Strategic Planning & Development on A Private Sector Level - Palestinian Tourism & Hospitality Development Strategy Report
Modules: The subjects include Marketing, Communications, P.R. Management, Financial Accounting, Personnel Management (& Human Resource Management), Leisure Management, Leisure Facility Management, Services & Leisure Marketing, Marketing Tourism, International Tourism, and Business Analysis etc.
Modules: The subjects include Technology Fundamentals, Information Technology Applications, Graphic Design & Arts, Communications, Authoring, Software Principles, Enabling Principles, Quantitative Principles, Business Systems, Office Skills & Technology, IT Specifications, Installation & Maintenance, Accounting Procedures.
Qualification: GCE (General Certificate of Education)/A Levels Modules: GCE O-Levels: Integrated Science (D), Biology (E), Chemistry (B), Human Biology (D), Physics (C), GCE A-Levels: Classical Arabic (C)
