Chief of PR

The Chief of PR & Communication serves as the Group's senior communications authority and principal adviser on media relations, public relations, corporate messaging, reputation management, and stakeholder communications. The role establishes and leads a high-performing communications function that protects and enhances the Group's reputation while ensuring accurate, timely, and effective dissemination of information to the media, government entities, investors, business partners, employees, and the wider public. The position leads Group press-office operations and provides executive oversight of press releases, media statements, leadership communications, crisis responses, public affairs initiatives, and reputation-management strategies. Acting as custodian of the corporate narrative, the incumbent ensures that strategic initiatives, major projects, organizational achievements, leadership perspectives, and material corporate developments are communicated consistently and credibly across local, regional, and international markets. The role requires extensive expertise in journalism-style writing, editorial judgment, media engagement, executive communications, issues management, and communication governance. Marketing experience remains a supporting advantage and does not substitute for the required depth in PR, press relations, and corporate communications.

Direct the Group press office and establish an enterprise-wide editorial agenda covering corporate announcements, strategic partnerships, investments, leadership appointments, project milestones, awards, events, and material business developments. Lead the end-to-end preparation, fact-checking, approval, distribution, and media follow-up of press releases, official statements, holding lines, briefing notes, and corporate responses, ensuring every communication is accurate, newsworthy, timely, and aligned with disclosure requirements.

Build and sustain trusted relationships with editors, journalists, producers, correspondents, news agencies, and relevant industry media across priority local, regional, and international markets. Proactively develop credible story angles, media pitches, interview opportunities, and thought-leadership placements that strengthen the Group's visibility, institutional standing, and strategic positioning without compromising editorial credibility.

Develop and continuously evolve the corporate communications strategy, annual communication plan, messaging architecture, and editorial standards in line with Group priorities and stakeholder expectations. Translate complex strategic, operational, financial, and organizational developments into clear and accessible narratives while preserving factual accuracy, confidentiality, and consistency of the corporate voice.

Prepare speeches, talking points, executive quotes, opinion pieces, interview briefs, Q&A documents, presentation narratives, and stakeholder messages for senior executives and designated spokespersons. Provide communication counsel and media preparation for interviews, press conferences, public appearances, and sensitive engagements, including message rehearsal, challenge-question preparation, and alignment on approved positions.

Lead communication planning and response for emerging issues, operational incidents, misinformation, reputational threats, and crisis situations in coordination with executive leadership, Legal, Risk, Operations, and HSE stakeholders. Maintain crisis communication protocols, escalation routes, response templates, stakeholder maps, monitoring arrangements, and post-incident reviews, and advise leadership using verified facts and clear risk analysis.

Establish and enforce enterprise standards covering tone of voice, terminology, factual verification, approvals, confidentiality, spokesperson authority, embargoes, publication controls, and records retention. Maintain a controlled repository of approved corporate facts, profiles, biographies, key messages, photographs, press materials, and frequently requested information to improve consistency, responsiveness, and quality.

Oversee monitoring and analysis across print, broadcast, online, and social channels to identify sentiment shifts, misinformation, competitor activity, emerging narratives, and matters requiring intervention. Report performance through indicators such as message penetration, quality and relevance of coverage, response time, spokesperson visibility, share of voice, and reputation-risk trends, converting findings into