Public Relations Manager job in Dubai

Specification:

• To work with the Director of Marketing so as to ensure beneficial relationships with the media, guests and public.
• Media relations, photography sessions, press bookings, advertising materials, advertising copy/media schedule, copy-writing and production of hotel collateral.

Skills Required:

• Possess a basic degree, diploma or equivalent in work-related training and experience

• Developed computer knowledge, particularly in the use of Ms Office, Excel, Access and PowerPoint

• Developed basic use of PageMaker program for visual and text amendments
• Fluent English - excellent written and spoken

Work Experience:

• At least 1 to 2 years experience is required
• Preferable prerequisite is experience in the Hotel and Travel industry

Leadership Competencies:

• Change Management - Generates activity and seeks new challenges to improve work performance; Demonstrate an optimistic outlook and recovers quickly from failure.
• Commercial Awareness - Shows awareness of markets and ensures up-to-date knowledge of competitors; Demonstrates an awareness of new business opportunities and seizes and acts upon them; Is aware of financial issues such as profits and losses; Identifies opportunities to reduce costs using the most cost-effective methods.
• Decision Making - Makes sound decisions quickly under pressure; Takes calculated risks based on adequate information and analysis; Makes a rational detailed judgment on the basis of all available information.
• Managing the Work of others - Works with an orientation to the future; Sets clear, appropriate, and well defined, quality objectives; Encourage others to comply with legal and personal obligations; Plans while taking into account change and possible difficulties; Provides teams with clear direction and keeps them on tasks; Actively supports autonomy and empowerment through appropriate delegation of work; Sees projects through to completion; ensure key objectives are met.
• Motivating and Influencing Others - Creates a climate of teamwork by encouraging harmony, co-operation and communication; Cares for others by monitoring their well-being; Inspires a positive attitude to work among subordinates and persuades others so that they change their opinion or direction and gain agreement with others; Respects the contributions of others.
• Organisation Savvy - Maintains awareness of organizational structure and goals; Accurately identifies and effectively presents the key points of an argument; Promotes ideas; Establishes links with people within and outside the business and uses this network for the organisation's advantage.
• People development - Encourages a culture of continuous personal and worked-related improvement through own actions and ensures learning from success and failures; Guides and coaches staff; Passes on one's own expertise and draws on the diverse backgrounds, skills and knowledge of people while defining and reinforcing standards for appropriate behaviour.
• Problem Development - Reconciles conflict and probes for information for more in-depth relevant information for decision-making; Analyses numerical data and all other sources of information in order to draw relevant conclusions and check facts to perceive causes and effects; Produces new ideas and a rang of solutions to meet the demands of the situation.
• Strategic Orientation - Selects the most promising tactic from a range of alternatives and conveys this vision to others; Sets organizational strategy in line with organizational vision and uses multiple, relevant resources to achieve objectives; Negotiates with a variety of approaches.