Associate Director, Corporate and Business Communications

3 weeks ago


Aberdeen, United Kingdom myGwork - LGBTQ+ Business Community Full time
  • Implement a full range of communications strategies, including corporate, business, executive and crisis, mandates with a view to enhance Standard Chartered Hong Kong’s reputation and brand.
  • Develop and foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, especially media.
  • Manage social media
  • Good understanding of the Bank businesses, products as well as capabilities, dynamics and potential issues affecting the firm and the banking industry.

Responsibilities

  • Support the CEO and senior executives of Standard Chartered Hong Kong in various media engagements from developing speaking point and media FAQs to media handling.
  • Support the Bank’s external profile and narrative building by crafting compelling content, lining up interviews, developing press materials.
  • Engage and align key messages with different internal and external stakeholders including staff, investors, media, community, regulators.
  • Work closely with the Bank’s Group Corporate Affairs team to deliver Group’s communications objectives and ensure alignment of local communications with those of the Group.
  • Manage the Bank’s social media content and accounts
  • Provide support on issues management especially during crisis situations. Mitigate reputational risk by monitoring/managing social and mainstream media with an anticipatory approach and right judgement call.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

  • Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
  • Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
  • Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
  • Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Other Responsibilities

  • Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values, Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)

Our Ideal Candidate

  • Bachelor Degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism or related disciplines
  • A minimum of 8 years’ relevant work experience, preferably in media relations and social media management, public relations
  • Good command of English and Chinese languages, both spoken and written
  • Sound knowledge of different media platforms
  • Strong stakeholder engagement, influencing and negotiation skills
  • Experience in putting forward the company position with internal and external stakeholders
  • Excellent organisational skills, ability to prioritise and manage multitude of issues simultaneously

Role Specific Technical Competencies

  • Professional background in Public Relations or Communications with minimum 10 years experience gained within media/PR agency and corporate communications of multinational company.
  • Good communication and presentation skills, including good written and spoken English and Cantonese.
  • Maturity and credibility to liaise with and influence individuals at the senior levels, including senior management of the Bank.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

  • Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
  • Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
  • Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

  • Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
  • Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
  • Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
  • Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
  • A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
  • Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
  • Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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