Senior PR manager

Senior PR manager performs the following duties and responsibilities:

1. participation in the design and implementation of the PR strategy of the Private Institution “Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence” (Institute);

2. participation in the implementation of the content and/or media plan of the Institute;

3. planning PR campaigns locally and abroad (press conferences, outreach seminars, special PR events with local/international industrial/scientific partners, seminars, conferences, expos);

4. building relationships with the media community to promote the Institute’s brand;

5. assistance in increasing the brand awareness of the Institute, its activities and research programs locally and abroad;

6. assistance in carrying out activities by the structural divisions aimed at increasing the brand awareness of the Institute;

7. building strategic communications with the PR agencies on ongoing partners of the Institute, with service providers within his/her competencies;

8. participate in budget planning for PR products and services within the competencies of the Institute;

9. media landscape monitoring and anticrisis management

10. supervision of the creation of modern PR products

11. creation of content for social media and website of ISSAI (Linkedin, Instagram, Youtube);

12. maintain the corporate email;

13. organization of events where the Institute is an organizer;

14. interaction with the PR office of Nazarbayev University (NU);

15. organizational and administrative support of Research Programs of ISSAI.

Qualifications

fluency in Kazakh, Russian and English.

• knowledge in the field of PR, marketing, journalism, and communications;

• knowledge change and project management;

• knowledge of MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, visualization tools and Canva;

• public speaking skills;

• analytical skills;

• team player;

• skills in preparing analytical notes;

• skills in preparing and conducting presentations.