Director, Communications Division

Responsibilities

• to provide vision, leadership, and guidance to the Division and the Secretariat.
• to present official pan-Commonwealth views and perspectives with impact as well as tact and political sensitivity.
• The Division undertakes its work mainly through media, public relations and information dissemination activities particularly using contemporary ICT-based communication platforms.
• The Director is expected to have strong public diplomacy skills and experience, as well as media expertise.
• The Director therefore also needs to have strategic creativity and to be innovative.

Requirements

• academic qualification at post-graduate level and/or professional qualifications relevant to communications, public relations and media, or international relations.
• At least fifteen years’ experience in communications, journalism, public affairs, media relations, digital communications, government communications or strategic external relations; a significant senior leadership experience in a complex, politically sensitive, international, governmental, intergovernmental, diplomatic, public-sector or public-facing organisation.