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Description

Founded in 1984, APCO Worldwide is an award-winning, independently owned global communication and business strategy firm with offices in major cities throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. APCO combines a global perspective with local expertise to help clients around the world manage challenges, opportunities, perceptions and reputations. APCO clients include corporations and governments; industry associations and nonprofit organizations; and six of the top 10 companies on the Fortune 500. The firm is a majority women-owned business.

The roleAs a writer you will have a comprehensive knowledge of corporate and media-related communications, as well as digital and social media communications opportunities. You will act as a final quality control check for all communication materials including – but not limited to – press releases, media invites, opinion editorials, speeches, talking points and digital copy before they are disseminated to the media and/or published on client channels.Joining us at the start of a major project, the writer will be a responsive, responsible and authoritative self-starter who can write original, compelling content across all platforms and, vitally, contribute across the project management team with coherent strategic inputs.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist various client teams in writing news releases, media invites, Q&As, speeches, features, bios and other communication material such as corporate/business presentations in PPT or other such software
• Review, edit and rewrite all written material (to include traditional, digital, and social media content) as required by team members
• Ability to understand the requirements of various teams and convey the client’s key messages adequately and appropriately through effective use of language
• Support teams by providing error-free media-worthy material
• Consult and guide client-handling teams on matters related to media requests
• Interact with team members and support them in building accurate communication measures
• Efficiently manage deadline-oriented workflow of releases, invites and requests from various team members on a daily basis
• Contribute to the development of new concepts, techniques or ideas at brainstorming sessions
• Support the project manager in ensuring that resources are in place to cover delivery of all written deliverables

Requirements

• Ideally, a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in English, Literature/Journalism/Communications
• 6-8 years’ of experience in communications, public relations or journalism, or equivalent work experience
• Previous experience as a member of a corporate communications team preferred but not required
• Excellent grammar, editing, writing and re-writing skills;
• A wordsmith who can provide error-free editorial content that is media-ready
• Ability to recognize the key messages of clients and offer effective ways to convey them to the relevant target audience
• Capable of rapidly handling industry-specific research to add value to the editorial content and other communication materials for the teams
• Completely thorough with local, regional and global current-affairs
• Quick with computers especially skilled in MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
• Proficiency in English, Mother Tongue fluency

Work Conditions

• The physical abilities needed to perform the duties of this position, in addition to the office climate:
• Office environment is general office setting
• Some travel may be required
• Must reside in Riyadh or be willing to relocate
• Willing to work additional or irregular hours as needed and allowed by local regulation

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