Head, Communications

Responsibilities:

• Ensure efficient articulation of the specific vision, plans and objectives of the Church
• Evolve new and innovative strategies for excellent internal and external communications execution.
• Evolve strategic partnerships with stakeholders in the communications space in and outside Nigeria to further drive the organization’s agenda.
• Identify communication gaps in the existing structure and plug them
• Work with leadership team to identify priorities and set direction for communications efforts
• Providing detailed reports of communications activities, including return-on-investment analyses
• Develop and manage the annual communications/marketing budget
• Should provide editorial direction, design, production and distribution of all publications.
• Ensure consistent expression across various channels of communication, co-ordinate appearance of all print and electronic materials.
• Serve as project manager for communication related initiatives.
• Set the example for an environment of creativity, innovation and problem solving.
• Establish performance parameters for the team in form of KPIs and periodically provide feedback to ensure enhanced performance. 
• Identify development needs of team members and ensure that these are fulfilled in a planned manner.
• Work with HR to create platforms for knowledge, training and best practice sharing within the team

Requirements:

• Post-Graduate degree in Communications, Journalism, International Relations/Public Affairs, Journalism or other related disciplines
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in communications and media management.
• Experience working with large, cross-functional teams is a must.
• Solid professional experience required including experience producing digital content and managing social accounts for organizations.
• Experience in writing, editing and producing written communications for targeted audiences.
• Experience producing for the web and a basic working knowledge of software packages for page formatting, image management, videos, and content preparation (HTML, Photoshop, Sharepoint, and similar software preferred,).
• Experience leading in a faith-based environment (even if in a volunteer capacity) is very desirable.
• Must have the ability to speak English to an advanced and sophisticated level, both written and verbal.
• Should demonstrate the ability to communicate or engender communications with different people groups to achieve set objectives

Remuneration: NGN15 million - 16 million Gross per annum