Communication jobs in South Africa

As a start up, you can expect your days to be pretty varied. Multitasking is normal, and sometimes, your skills or natural talents will be leveraged to support other business priorities. That said, the bulk of your working hours should involve you having to:

• Strategizing, developing and fully executing a cohesive strategic integrated communications initiatives/campaigns to continue to grow the company's presence and positioning across the industry and key stakeholders - in a manner that is aligned to business goals for the quarter/year. This includes issues/crisis monitoring and management
• Identifying, developing and executing stakeholder engagement plans which includes but are not limited to key media and selected government agencies
• Collaborate and support cross-functionally within the marketing team, with the commercial, operations, finance and CEO Office in Teleport; as well as other Lines of Businesses under Capital A Berhad, where needed

At the start, you may experience culture shock working with the Teleport team. To help you adapt better, we would like to share our beliefs on leadership. Simply put, we see everyone in this team as leaders in their own right. As a good leader, you:

• Roll up your sleeves as needed, and never delegate work that one would not be willing to do themselves
• Do what is needed to get things done, as you believe speed and quality is more important than anything else to effect change
• Over-communicate, particularly as we are all quite autonomous
• Take care of your colleagues, and treat them as you would want to be treated
• Are rigid on goals, but flexible on the details
• Are curious, take interest and have the capacity to eventually be equally knowledgeable and well versed about the company and its business - to be the subject matter expert yourself
• Take accountability and are not afraid to learn through your mistakes
• Are comfortable to be in a continuous learning and growing environment
• Are comfortable to be in a position of unknown, yet resourceful and creative to take the lead, initiative and effort to get the job done - without compromising intent
• Have an interest in optimizing the way you work - ‘That's just how it's been done all this while' is not in your vocabulary - you embrace The Teleport Way as your culture

These are minimum-requirement skills and a ‘must-have' for the role:

• The ability to communicate in a simple yet substantial and meaningful way: Speak and articulate clearly and write well across various formats and applications
• A simple and data-driven storyteller: Understand Teleport's story with great depth, conduct research, analyse various content and reports, have the ability to understand and articulate market, industry and financial data to help you produce quality written and presentation work products in the form of talking points, articles, opinion editorials, press release and presentation slides, among others
• Ability to meet deadlines and adapt quickly to changes, able to multitask and is unphased under pressure
• Self-starter, independent and requires minimal supervision, yet highly communicative and a team player
• Resourcefulness in finding solutions, able to think critically and analytically
• Highly proficient in English. Proficiency in Bahasa Malaysia and Mandarin is an added advantage
• Experienced in government and industry relations
• Experienced in executing communications work for a B2B company
• Degree in Business, Law, Economics, Marketing, Communication or equivalent preferred

These are skills that are ‘nice-to-have' and will make you stand out in the job application:

• Knowledge and experience in cargo, e-commerce delivery business and technology
• Background in a corporate strategy team with the ability to connect that with marketing and strategic communications