Marketing Specialist

Job description / Role

WSP seek Marketing Specialist to support the project team in Makkah. As part of the project team, Marketing Specialist will support the delivery of written and visual content, provide public information and facts and figures, involve in community and stakeholder engagement and other social responsibility activities.

Responsibilities and needed expertise are broadly defined hereafter but not limited to:
• Creation and management of beneficial stakeholder relationships with project area VIPs, businesses and residents, including proactive management and mitigation of issues and responses to customer complaints and feedback
• Co-ordination with internal departments to provide timely public notice announcements (such as road closures, outages, delays, openings and traffic diversions)
• Plan, attend and lead internal and external meetings with stakeholders regarding all external communications issues (including weekly project operations meetings, critical risk, site tours, openings)
• Development and management of a stakeholder database and issue monitoring
• Creation of communication plans, strategies and campaigns to promote the Makkah Public Transport project amongst domestic and international audiences
• Source and create traditional and social media content
• Photography and video capture, management, permitting, quality control and archiving of visual documentation of the Makkah Public Transport Project.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in communications, journalism, English, public relations or a related field from an internationally recognized accredited university
• 7 years of experience in a similar role working on communications activities
• Proven experience and results in managing highly diverse stakeholders and communicating with audiences in multiple languages.
• Preferably able to communicate in Arabic or proven experience in managing Arabic- speaking stakeholder representative.
• Exceptional command of English language
• Experience managing the collection and creation of content, including writers, graphic designers, photographers and videographers
• Excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills
• A strong understanding of media relations, social media, internal communications, community relations and corporate social responsibility

About the Company

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Property & Buildings, Transportation & Infrastructure, Environment, Industry, Resources (including Mining and Oil & Gas) and Power & Energy sectors as well as project delivery and strategic consulting services. With 36,000 talented people in more than 500 offices across 40 countries, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.