Africapractice
Job Title: Senior Consultant, Investor Relations
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Type of contract: Full-time, Permanent
Line Manager: Regional Client Service Manager
The company
Africapractice is a strategy and communications consultancy. We advise industry and governments, helping them to identify opportunity, manage risk and overcome critical communications challenges. We combine strategic communications with political risk analysis and advisory services.
Our clients are among the largest institutions, companies and investors on the African continent. We help them to manage complex relationships with demanding and critical audiences including regulators, media, capital markets, customers and suppliers.
Role Purpose
- Lead the growth or our investor relations practice in Kenya through a strong and structured business development drive and the continued high level servicing of key existing clients.
- Support our clients to effectively engage Kenyan, frontier and global emerging market fund managers and the local and international financial media in order to shape the debate on their share price, build a supportive base of shareholders and raise clients’ profiles in the financial and trade media
- Advise and support investor relations clients to deliver consistent and relevant communication collateral and activities to investors and the financial media.
- Integrate our investor relations services with our wider communications services
Key Responsibilities
- Manage assigned accounts effectively and profitably
- Regularly produce key research & communications documents (investor announcements / press releases; advisory/briefing notes; reports and presentations; perception studies etc.)
- Deliver effective strategies to support positioning of client entities with investors, the production of investor communication and corporate communications collateral and participate in their implementation.
- Manage the day-to-day client handling and consultancy by being the main point of contact for clients, providing counsel and guidance
- Build and sustain relationships with key clients, investor community and financial media contacts
- Leverage current investor, analyst and financial media contacts and strong relationships across the investment community that trades African equities and bonds for day to day requirements, in crisis situations and for sensitive and complex assignments
- Ensure timely delivery of high quality work in line with agreed monitoring and evaluation frameworks
- Ensure delivery within budget and timely billing and collections on assigned accounts
- Play a key role in marketing and PR initiatives to generate new business leads in IR and financial communications and to cross sell other related africapractice services.
- Develop proposals, tenders, pitch presentations and write briefing notes
- Own and deliver against a business development target to be defined as part of annual KPI’s
- Provide support and coaching to colleagues on best practice in client service and account management
- Help identify innovative ways to improve our tools
Qualifications and Specialist Skills
- Minimum 5 years relevant experience in financial analysis and or focus on financial corporate communications and media relations
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in relevant discipline from a reputable institution
- Excellent consulting and crisis management skills, astute analytical capability and strategic thinking
- Interest and knowledge of our core sectors essential: financial services, oil & gas, FMCG, agriculture and or infrastructure in Kenya and across Africa
- Confident international media relations specialist with demonstrable relationships with media outlets (globally and internationally), investors, analysts and editors
- Strong proven project management and client relationship building skills; proven ability to execute and juggle multiple projects and clients
- Capability to build and manage complex and sensitive stakeholder relationships
- Outstanding presentation, written, oral and verbal communications skills
- Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively to tight deadlines in a fast paced, dynamic working environment
- Proven experience in research and report writing; opinion editorial crafting, speech writing and general copywriting
- Aptitude for problem solving, attention to detail and collaborating with internal subject matter experts to address clients’ issues
Interested candidates willing to take up the challenge to work in a fast paced and challenging environment are encouraged to send their applications specifying their availability to [email protected] with the reference “KE –Senior Consultant – Investor Relations” before COB Jan 26th 2018