Senior Communications Specialist

JOB TITLE: Senior Specialist Communications

LOCATION: Abu Dhabi

CONTRACT TYPE: 12-month secondment

REPORTING TO: Manager - Marketing

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Our client is seeking a Senior Specialist Communications to manage internal and external communications, ensuring consistent messaging, stakeholder alignment, and brand reputation. This role will be responsible for leadership communications, PR, media relations, and employee engagement. The ideal candidate must be bilingual English & Arabic, and have a proactive approach to communications with the ability to manage multiple deliverables and competing deadlines.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and execute communications strategy for internal and external audiences.
• Draft press releases, speeches, and leadership messaging.
• Manage media relations, PR campaigns, and crisis communications.
• Oversee intranet content and employee engagement initiatives.
• Support brand reputation and communications consistency across teams.
• Coordinate stakeholder communications and alignment.
• Advise leadership on communications best practices.
• Monitor and report on communications effectiveness.
• Achieve set objectives, ensuring personal growth and learning development needs are met
• Hold team members accountable for ensuring marketing deliverables are best-in-class, aligned to the agreed objectives, budgets and timeframes
• To proactively build knowledge and be alert to opportunities, while being mindful of the resource available to deliver materials and current priorities for the team.
• To build productive relationships with the internal customers, researching briefs for stories and being alert to potential marketing opportunities
• Proven experience in identifying target audiences and in creatively devising and leading across channels marketing campaigns that engage, educate and motivate.
• Numerically literate, comfortable working with numbers, making sense of metrics and processing figures with spreadsheets.
• Build a strong knowledge of the Group’s offerings and regulations.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, PR, Marketing, or related field.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is essential. 
• 5+ years in communications roles, preferably in ports, logistics or government sectors. 
• Strong writing, editing, and media relations skills.
• Experience with internal communications and employee engagement.

ABOUT ACORN STRATEGY

Voted Large Agency of the Year and winner of multiple international awards, Acorn Strategy is a full-service communications consultancy with offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Melbourne, Perth, and London, and an ever-expanding client roster. We are an integrated marketing, public relations, and digital consultancy that delivers sharp, agile, and creative strategies to help grow our clients’ business.

OUR CULTURE

We understand that our success depends on recruiting and retaining the highest quality individuals. We have created an environment for people to grow and learn through a culture that empowers creativity, innovation, and professionalism. The core values we live by are collaboration, agility, bravery, curiosity, and growth.

OUR PEOPLE

Over the years we have come to realise that although each of our team members are unique, we each share a series of personal traits that have successfully linked us culturally as a team and as an agency at large. 

ACORN STRATEGY is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating and building a respectful and empowering environment. We aim to create an inclusive workplace that supports our diversity and increases our potential to produce work that better represents and resonates with the world around us.