Communications Consultant

Overview

Responsibilities

1. Communication Planning and Support

• Conduct market research and analysis to identify audience priorities, industry trends, competitor activity, and communications opportunities.
• Support the development and delivery of communications plans for projects, campaigns, events, partnerships, and portfolio initiatives.
• Coordinate closely with internal stakeholders, agencies, and the events team to align messaging, timelines, deliverables, and approvals.

2. Content Development and Review

• Create, edit, and review content across multiple platforms, including press releases, articles, website copy, LinkedIn content, social media posts, event materials, briefing notes, case studies, and marketing collateral.
• Work with internal teams and external agencies to develop content that aligns with our brand voice, key messages, audience priorities, and strategic narrative.
• Support the social media agency by providing clear briefs, reviewing content, coordinating inputs, and ensuring posts reflect the organization’s positioning, tone, and priorities.
• Help make complex technologies, partnerships, and venture-building activity clear, accurate, and compelling for external audiences.

3. Media and Public Relations

• Monitor current events, industry trends, media narratives, and public sentiment to identify opportunities, risks, and angles.
• Support media coverage and brand visibility by helping develop story ideas, pitches, media materials, and spokesperson opportunities in collaboration with the agency.
• Support media monitoring, coverage tracking, and reporting.
• Prepare briefing materials, talking points, and background notes for media engagements, interviews, and events.

4. Events and Stakeholder Engagement

• Support communications planning and delivery for events, roundtables, and speaking engagements.
• Coordinate with the events team to ensure messaging, invitations, agendas, speaker materials, and digital/printed content are aligned with stakeholder needs, of high quality, and delivered on time.
• Help identify content opportunities before, during, and after events, including social media coverage, key takeaways, and stakeholder updates.
• Support direct stakeholder outreach by helping prepare emails, event materials, and other engagement assets.

5. Internal Reporting and Briefing

• Support regular internal reporting across media, social media, events, stakeholder engagement, and communications activity.
• Help prepare briefing documents, updates, and summaries for the leadership team.
• Track key deliverables, timelines, approvals, and outputs across workstreams.
• Capture campaign, event, and content performance to support planning and continuous improvement.

6. Other

• Build and maintain strong working relationships across business functions, portfolio companies, agencies, and ecosystem stakeholders to understand priorities and support effective communications delivery.
• Participate in team-wide Marketing and Communications campaigns and group-wide initiatives as needed.
• Preferred knowledge and experience:
• Experience in a semi-government or complex enterprise environment, supporting communications campaigns, events, and stakeholder initiatives.
• Excellent English writing, editing, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to develop clear, engaging content across media, digital, and stakeholder channels.
• Arabic-language skills would be an advantage.
• Strong media relations skills, including press activity, media materials, story development, and coverage support.
• Ability to translate complex technical, commercial, and strategic topics for non-technical audiences.
• Experience coordinating with agencies, including briefing, reviewing deliverables, managing feedback, and tracking approvals.
• Experience supporting event communications, including messaging, speaker materials, invitations, promotional content, and briefing notes.
• Experience supporting social media, including content planning, copy review, agency coordination, and campaign execution.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships across internal teams, senior stakeholders, portfolio companies, agencies, and partners.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, timelines, deliverables, and approvals.
• Good judgment, attention to detail, and confidence working in a fast-moving, multi-stakeholder environment.
• Knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in communications, marketing, and stakeholder engagement.