RBA Corporate Communications Officer Job Vacancy

The Retirement Benefit Authority (RBA) is a State Corporation set up to regulate and supervise the retirement benefit sector in Kenya.

RBA is established through the Retirement Benefit Act (No. 3 of 1997)

In an effort to enhance the operations of the existing team as well as increase its effectiveness in service delivery, RBA is seeking to recruit high caliber result-oriented persons with exceptional communication and IT skills who will work flexibly in a small but highly professional team and respond imaginatively to varied and demanding range of tasks.

Interested persons who are comfortable in high performance environment and have the ability to turn strategy into practical measures complexity and detail are invited to apply for the following vacancy:

Corporate Communications Officer

Department: Corporate Communications
Location: Nairobi
Job Grade: 6
Reports to: Senior Corporate Communications Officer
Subordinates: None

Job Role: Responsible for drafting and writing copy for a range of the authority's corporate materials and publications, including press releases, corporate announcements, feature stories, speeches, brochures, newsletters, presentations and annual reports,

Special Requirements
• Excellent communication skills
• Good inter-personal skills
• Competency in economic affairs
• Desktop publishing and editing skills

Salient Information
• Frequent travel out of station, working long hours and within timelines
Key Result Areas:

Conducting pension education programs
• Design and develop communication material
• Liaise with Supervisor to develop Presentations
Customer satisfaction
• Develop communication interventions to enhance customer feedback
• Improve customer satisfaction index through creative communication programmes
Developing and implementing public awareness campaign programmes
• Design communication that will enhance the public's level of awareness on pension saving
• Design Messages that educate Kenyans on the need to save for retirement and change of attitude
• Simplify the communication messages to demystify the pension subject

Brand management
• Ensure quality in the Authority's communication to maintain the RBA profile
• Ensure timely dissemination of information to stakeholders to enhance RBA Brand
Management of stakeholder relations
• Identify and engage strategic partners with the aim of leveraging various platforms to disseminate pension messages
Job Specifications
• Build and maintain the reputation of RBA and raise public awareness of its objectives and initiatives, by developing and disseminating strategic publications using all forms of media and communication channels

Education
• Min: Bachelors Degree in Economics with a Diploma in Journalism
• Ideal: background in Journalism

Experience
• Min:4 years in journalism, writing articles and getting them published
• Max:6 years in journalism, writing articles and getting them published
Age: 30-35

If your background, qualification, experience and competence match the above specification please submit your detailed CV, indicating day time telephone numbers, address and names of three referees to the address below not later than 31st January 2010, quoting the position applied for in a sealed cover.

The Chief Executive,
Retirement Benefits Authority,
Rahimtulla Tower - 13th Floor,
Upper Hill Road,
P.O. Box 57733 - 00200, Nairobi.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.