Confederation of African Football (CAF) recruitment : Senior Manager Media Relations
Confederation of African Football (CAF) recruitment : CAF is looking to recruit a Senior Manager Media Relations and Operations. CAF is the governing body of African football with founding members Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and South Africa. With a membership of 54 Member Associations, the secretariat is based in Egypt.
The position will be based in CAF Headquarters – Cairo, Egypt. Only qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to gender, race, age, skin colour, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or on any other grounds.
Requirements (profile):
- Bachelor or equivalent degree in communications, media relations, or similar.
- Fluent in English and French languages both written and spoken is a must; command of any of the other CAF official languages (Arabic and/or Portuguese) is an asset.
- Critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Minimum of five years’ experience in senior media relations role at international level.
- Willingness to travel anywhere, anytime whenever the work needs.
- High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office and other modern IT tools.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Leader, team builder, strategic and conceptual thinker, service minded and able to understand the needs of the business.
- Resistance of stress.
Responsibilities:
- Develop Messaging for CAF Campaigns and events.
- Coordinate the overall communication and promotion of CAF’S events and campaigns.
- Apply knowledge of communications and trends by providing advice, inputs, and recommendations to CAF.
- Contribute to the development of innovative media solutions for CAF.
- Plan, support, and implement the delivery of quality, professional, consistent, and efficient media relations services at all CAF competitions and events.
- Develop and execute media relations plan to promote CAF programs, activities, campaigns, and events.
- Support the Communications Director in delivering the overall Communications Strategy.
- Develop and strengthen the relationship between CAF and Media.
- Identify and define the media landscape.
- Lead the development of procedures, guidelines, checklists, and support documentation related to media relations and operations at CAF centralized and decentralized events.
- Be responsible for detailed planning and implementation of media facilities and services at all CAF competitions and events.
- Assist and support Local Organizing Committees in delivering media facilities as per CAF’s requirements.
- On-site event-time role will include overseeing the delivery of all media operations and being main point of contact to other CAF departments, local entities, and external suppliers in relation to media relations and media operations.
- Organize Media opportunities and activities such as: Press Conference, Media briefings, Interviews, etc.
- Contribute to the planning and implementation of event media services and media operations.
- Liaise with all the relevant CAF departments to ensure that media relations, services and operations are included in the planning and execution of all CAF events and competitions.
- Handle the procurement of technical services for media events.
- Budget planning and management.
- Coordinate Media Officers during centralized and decentralized events.
Event management/ Operations:
- Oversee the delivery of CAF competition(s) in the planning phase and on-site, acting as a media manager.
- Work with Accreditations Manager to facilitate Media Accreditation Process.
- Lead the Planning of Media Events.
Project management:
- Lead or support specific projects related media operations and media relations.
- Contribute to specific working groups within the communications department and across CAF.
- Manage service providers and handle tenders and procurement procedures when necessary.
- Bring added value by contributing innovative ideas to further enhance CAF’s approach to media relations and media operations.
If you have the necessary qualifications and are keen to work for a top international sporting organization, submit your application in English (Motivation Letter, CV, Diplomas, and Reference Letters).
Only direct applications who meet all the required criteria will receive consideration, please send your C.V. to careers@cafonline.com.
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