
Stakeholder Relations and Communications Manager
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Development and successful delivery of stakeholder engagement plans in accordance with the overarching stakeholder engagement strategy.
- Manage stakeholder mapping, prepare communications to stakeholders.
- Manage stakeholder engagement co-ordinators, providing guidance and directing the co-ordinators workload. activities to ensure timescales and requirements are met
- Work collaboratively with all the company's employees including but not limited to management and junior employees.
- Provide briefings and support to other managers and teams.
- Arrange and attend stakeholder meetings with team members and ensure feedback of stakeholder responses and requests to operational teams are responded to within agreed timescales.
- Prepare, manage and facilitate workshops, roundtable and forum logistics including developing agendas, project plans, minute taking and production of reports.
- Ensure accurate audit trail maintained of all stakeholder engagement and all contact/activities are recorded on stakeholder database
- Attend client-facing meetings, collaborative planning workshops and report to clients on progress of their queries.
- Provide input into weekly/monthly reports for MANCOM and EXCO.
- Manage the customer, membership and CSI co-ordinator and ensure all their KPAs and KPIs are met.
- Provide quarterly board reports and report into the stake works committee.
- Action all items arising from the stake works committee
- Maintain and track the efficiency of the query resolution process.
- Ensure all communication across the organisation's communication platforms adheres with set standards.
- Strong attention to detail, a passion for problem solving skills and experience in developing and successfully implementing stakeholder engagement plans.
- Good interpersonal, networking, customer relations skills and highly articulate team player.
- Great communication, reading and writing skills.
- Ability to research, analyse and apply knowledge gain
- Willing to learn systems provided by the company including the company's portal.
- Strong and proven ability to be innovative and think outside of the box.
- Be able to take and execute instructions very well
- Ability to delegate team members while working on their work.
- Ability to meet deadline dates and work well under pressure.
- Be able to take full responsibility in their work.
- Strong project management and people management skills
- Ability to schedule work and deliver to tight deadlines.
- Broader project communications experience and media relationships.
- A degree/diploma in communication management or equivalent.
- Proven 5 years' experience in a management position
- Understanding of music business processes, and CMO or publisher operations with an interest in the music industry and related political environment.
- Great communication, reading and writing skills
- Demonstrated skill in query resolution and time management.
- Customer liaison and stakeholder relations experience will be an added advantage.
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