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Aswat Masriya (AM) is looking to recruit an experienced marketing and communications manager to manage and develop the project's communications strategy and increase its profile in the Egyptian and International media. This is an 18-month contract, based at the Reuters bureau in Cairo.
Aswat Masriya
Marketing and communications manager
Aswat Masriya (AM) is looking to recruit an experienced marketing and communications manager to manage and develop the project’s communications strategy and increase its profile in the Egyptian and International media. This is an 18-month contract, based at the Reuters bureau in Cairo.
Aswat Masriya (www.aswatmasriya.com) is a website in both Arabic and English that provides essential news and information around governance and politics in Egypt. Aswat Masriya began as news service covering the Egyptian elections but is evolving to cover more general governance news, with a focus on regional politics, women’s rights and finance. The website is part of a larger Thomson Reuters Foundation (www.trust.org/trustmedia) initiative to strengthen the media in Egypt, along with a programme of elections reporting courses for journalists and media training for parliamentarians.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Coordinate and manage the overall marketing and promotion of Aswat Masriya, including coordinating with the London office to create a comprehensive marketing strategy.
- Develop and manage relationships with existing media partners (media outlets that host AM content) and content partners (media outlets that provide AM with content), including holding meetings with partners on a regular basis.
- Securing new content partnerships and media partnerships in line with the new focuses of Aswat Masriya, including encouraging radio stations to put out Aswat Masriya content.
- Overall responsibility for achieving website traffic targets and driving traffic to the website.
- Monitoring and reporting on AM’s media coverage.
- Some events organisation.
Experience and skills required
- Experience in a marketing/communications role, preferably including developing and managing relationships with external organisations.
- Excellent written and spoken communications skills.
- Excellent knowledge of the Egyptian media scene.
- Fluent Arabic and English.
- Egyptian citizen.
Salary
To be discussed
Candidates should send a CV and covering letter (in English) to Bobbie Mellor bobbie.mellor@thomsonreuters.com as soon as possible. This position has an immediate start.
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