Local role you must be eligible to work in Haiti, please attach your resume in French and English.
After nine years of operation, Digicel Group Limited has 10.8 million customers across its 32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific. With revenues of US$2.2 billion, the company is renowned for delivering best value, best service and best network.
Digicel is the lead sponsor of Caribbean, Central American and Pacific sports teams, including the Special Olympics teams throughout these regions. Digicel sponsors the West Indies cricket team and is also the title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean Championships and the Copa de Naciones Digicel. In the Pacific, Digicel is the proud sponsor of several national rugby teams and also sponsors the Vanuatu cricket team.
Digicel also runs a host of community-based initiatives across its markets and has set up Digicel Foundations in Jamaica, Haiti and Papua New Guinea which focus on educational, cultural and social development programmes.
In 2004, Digicel developed Digicel Rising Stars – an annual talent show to support aspiring young music artists in the Caribbean. The show has spanned the Eastern Caribbean, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago ranking as one of the top-rated shows.
Digicel is incorporated in Bermuda and its markets comprise: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Nauru, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos and Vanuatu. Digicel also has coverage in St. Martin and St. Barts in the Caribbean and has recently acquired a license in French Polynesia.
Fonctions
Primary objective of the job:
To launch the Digicel brand and key messages to media across Haiti, to facilitate controlled and consolidated corporate and consumer communications across the Group, and to develop innovative communications and public relations programmes and initiatives to increase marketplace exposure that support key company goals and objectives.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
• Drive innovative and effective public relations activity across the company that support company activities
• Develop a regional PR strategy for Digicel Haiti
• Appoint agencies where necessary, and PR managers for the country
• Develop and implement PR plans across the regions
• Serve as a spokesperson for Digicel and respond to media queries
• Ensure corporate communications protocol is adhered to across the business
• Co-ordinate with all Digicel internal and external departments and agencies in Haiti
• Media relations duties include: identifying story opportunities within Digicel that promote key strategic objectives and product launches, develop relationships with the media, facilitate media visits, respond to media queries, develop media releases and statements, approval of media releases
• Setting up relevant interviews, speaking engagements and managing PR opportunities
• Maintain Digicel Haiti corporate website
• Keep Chairman, Board, CEO and Directors informed of PR activity and issue management
• Facilitate the effective two-way flow of public relations relevant information across Digicel operations
Qualifications Requises
Academic Qualification and Experience required for the job:
• Minimum of 6 years experience in public relations role
• Primary degree in a communications related discipline
• Relevant post graduate public relations qualification
• Must be a creative thinker, have strong project management and organizational skills
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communications skills with a proven ability to write in a variety of formats and for diverse audiences
• The ability to meet objectives within deadlines
• Strong Commercial acumen
• Demonstrate an ability to handle multiple assignments and adapt to changing priorities
• Experience of working in an international context
Conditions particulières
Functional Skills:
• Excellent communication skills
• Multitasking skills as well as strong organizational and people management skills
• Excellent writing skills
Conditions de travail
In return, you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, enterprising environment, where your skills will be valued and rewarded. Digicel recognizes our staff and management team are largely responsible for our success to date. Digicel's unique culture is driven by an entrepreneurial style encapsulated by our Chairman, board of directors and management, all seasoned telecom executives and industry experts with vast experience in building, expanding and marketing mobile services globally.