Head, Corporate and Government Affairs at Rendeavour

Alaro City Development FZC is an integrated, mixed-use city planned for over 2,000 hectares in the North West Quadrant of the Lekki Free Zone. Alaro City’s vision goes beyond alleviating what is a self-evident problem – that of stifling urban congestion and a dearth of quality housing and commercial property in Lagos and Africa as a whole. Rather, we aim to help create the infrastructure – the living and working spaces, communities, schools, and hospitals – that will help sustain and accelerate Nigeria’s economic growth, meet the aspirations of Africa’s burgeoning middle classes, and serve as a catalyst for further urban development.

The people in our team are multi-skilled and experts in their respective fields. They possess a unique drive, underpinned by the desire to help improve Africa’s urban development. Alaro City is a project of Rendeavour, Africa’s largest urban land developer with over 30,000 acres of visionary projects in the growth trajectories of large cities in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Corporate and Government Affairs

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos

Description 

• The Head of Corporate Affairs will be responsible for stakeholder and client management and community engagement.

Responsibilities

• Engage and manage new and existing internal and external stakeholders to ensure continued systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to engage with stakeholders.
• Create and maintain a database of relevant stakeholders to the project, as well as a systemic approach to engagement of all key stakeholders across the project.
• Proactively manage key federal and state-level government relations.
• Monitor the external environment to identify legal, political, and social issues that may affect the company’s operations and interests, as well as proffer mitigation options.
• Develop key relationships with foreign missions, trade missions and organizations, government agencies and parastatals, media and other organizations.
• Actively build industrial and commercial sales funnels through business development efforts
• Develop and implement an effective crisis management framework.
• Represent the company’s interests at key industry events and serve as key spokesperson for the organization.
• Proactively manage all community-related requests, with a view to continually maintaining goodwill towards the Alaro City project.
• Ensure prompt de-escalation and resolution of all community-centered agitations towards the Alaro City project.
• Serve as a key community liaison and coordinate all community-related affairs alongside LWIL and other designated parties.
• Maintain cordial and effective relationships with other Free Zone operators and jointly drive appreciation and positive perception for the regime.
• Counter negative publicity and handle crisis and emergency communications promptly and effectively.
• Create and maintain a favorable public image for Alaro City by communicating and managing brand perception.
• In collaboration with Marketing & Communications, plan and execute Corporate Social
• Responsibility (CSR) programs and analyse the impact on both the company and the
• beneficiaries every quarter.
• Create an effective job desk and job administration system for Alaro City with a view to driving employment from the community.

Requirements
Hard skills and experience:

• 7 to 10 years of experience in sales, marketing, corporate communications, media relations, advertising and event management in a reputable company
• Excellent written and oral communication, producing copywriter professional journalist-level text.
• Proven leadership and managerial experience
• Strong ability in: planning, branding, design and digital.
• Knowledge of multi-channel marketing/communication processes and the local Nigerian media.
• Very strong analytical skills.
• Previous exposure to emerging or frontier markets.
• International product and brand communications experience highly desirable.

Soft skills:

• Mature, pragmatic and flexible approach, strong commercial judgment.
• Team player but comfortable working autonomously.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong research and analytical skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• Rigorous and organized approach.
• Hands-on and responsible.

Personal characteristics:

• High energy.
• Result-oriented.
• Strong work ethic.
• Impeccable integrity
• Ability to work effectively under pressure

Application Closing Date
30th November, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.