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  • Posted: Aug 17, 2021
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Bolt, previously known as Taxify, is the leading European transportation platform providing ride-hailing and scooter sharing services. The company’s mission is to make urban travel easier, quicker and more reliable
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    Regional Press Officer for Africa

    We are looking for a regional press officer, Africa!

    This person will handle Bolt’s PR in Kenya or Ghana in-house, and manage the agencies representing our Ghanian, Tanzanian and Ugandan markets. The Eastern African and West African markets are a really important region to Bolt - you can look forward to the thrills and spills of our burgeoning ride-hailing, micromobility and food delivery product lines.

    It’s an exciting, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have a big say on how an extremely ambitious, fast-growing company like Bolt is perceived across multiple countries.

    Let’s build the future of mobility together!

    What will You be doing:

    • Draft and execute a local PR plan, in co-operation with the local operations team and HQ PR team
    • Keep an eye out for PR opportunities, and proactively act on them
    • Handle press enquiries professionally and in a timely manner, converting new contacts into close ones
    • Act as day-to-day contact with existing PR agencies in the region
    • Work with PR agencies to ensure Bolt remains top of mind
    • Regularly measure and review performance to ensure output remains high
    • Train and prepare local spokespeople
    • Co-ordinate consumer PR activities with the marketing team, leveraging PR content in social media and vice versa

    What we are looking for:

    • At least 5 years of experience in a PR agency or in-house comms team for a growth company
    • Knowledge of the local media landscape, connections in newsrooms and an understanding of what works and what doesn’t on the local market
    • International experience - you’ve run PR campaigns that have included a number of markets, and you know how to adapt messages for different audiences
    • Crisis communication skills to manage unexpected situations
    • A strategic mindset coupled with an eye for detail
    • Outstanding writing skills as well as an understanding of different styles of writing (from press releases to op-eds, from blog posts to spokesperson briefings)
    • Native/native-level written and spoken Swahili, excellent English
    • A can-do approach to solving problems. Never done that before? Not in your job description? You don’t care, you’ll work it out.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Bolt on careers.bolt.eu to apply

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