Oxford Policy Management

Head of Marketing and Communications

Oxford Policy Management

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Nairobi • Kenya

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Lead

About the role

  • Develop and implement the global communications strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities, reputational goals, and thought leadership positioning.
  • Advise leadership on key narratives, messaging, and engagement opportunities.
  • Leverage data-driven insights to inform the design of organisational business development strategy, regularly reporting to the Board and Senior Leadership on significant market developments and audience engagement.
  • Lead editorial strategy and high-impact content initiatives, ensuring OPM is recognised as an expert voice.
  • Oversee and approve major publications, campaigns, and multi-format content, providing guidance on innovative formats and strategic messaging.
  • Lead proactive media relations management; directly support opportunities for external engagement that positions OPM’s thought leadership with a broad range of audiences.
  • Build and maintain strategic media relationships and partnerships.
  • Pitch high-value media opportunities and advise senior leaders on media engagement and spokesperson activities.
  • Act as guardian of OPM’s brand, voice, and identity across all communications.
  • Ensure consistency and quality of messaging and advise teams on best practice.
  • Develop and guide OPM’s digital presence, ensuring our company website and engagement across social media platforms delivers maximum impact and engagement.
  • Lead and directly support the management of critical incident and crisis communications.
  • Manage communications and marketing budget, ensuring spend on suppliers, marketing tools, and other resources delivers maximum impact.
  • Lead and develop a communications and marketing team spanning multiple locations, providing coaching, mentoring, and professional development to enhance capabilities and ensure high performance.
  • Work in partnership with business development functions to cultivate opportunities to strengthen relationships with funders, foundations, impact investors, partners, and other strategic stakeholders through communications initiatives, events, and relationship-building activities.
  • Ensure value-for-money and effective allocation of internal and external resources.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in communications or a related discipline; or equivalent professional experience.
  • Significant experience in strategic communications, including experience in a senior management/leadership role.
  • Demonstrable track record in increasing audience engagement through strategic communications design.
  • Experience in working closely with internal stakeholders at Senior Leadership and Board level and with development of and reporting on strategic marketing and communications KPIs.
  • Extensive experience in partnering with business development functions to drive sustainable income development opportunities with new and existing clients.
  • Experience in the planning, execution, and evaluation of marketing and communications strategies within a global business environment.
  • Experienced in the development of communications frameworks and knowledge assets for global adoption.
  • Experience in the hands-on leadership of crisis communications and reputational risk management.
  • Excellent communication, editorial, and copywriting skills with the ability to create and help shape impactful and compelling narratives.
  • Experience in the management of marketing and communications budgets, with the proven ability to steward resources that deliver high-level impact.
  • Familiarity with the international development funding landscape, and understanding of the differing modalities of bilateral, multilateral, private sector, and philanthropic funders.
  • Deep personal and evident professional commitment to the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • Excellent people leadership skills, with a track record of coaching, mentoring, and strengthening the professional capabilities of teams.
Benefits
  • We enable colleagues’ capacity to grow professionally through enhanced learning resources, opportunities to work cross functionally, and space to engage with a range of internal and external industry events.
  • Our non-hierarchical culture values support, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, and a rich diversity of perspectives.
  • We provide an exceptionally generous annual leave entitlement and a hybrid working model to encourage and enable healthy work/life balance.
  • Wellbeing resources including a global Employee Assistance Programme and access to the UnMind app.
  • Competitive salary and contributory pension scheme.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
strategic communicationsaudience engagementcommunications frameworkscrisis communicationsreputational risk managementmarketing strategiescommunications KPIscontent initiativeseditorial strategycopywriting
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingmentoringcommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingrelationship buildingproblem solvingcreativityadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in communicationsequivalent professional experience