Senior Manager, Communications Job M-KOPA Solar

Job description

Communications Jobs. M-KOPA Jobs. Senior Manager, Communications leading corporate communications, managing brand reputation, and executing public relations strategies, requiring a Mass Communication or PR degree and 7+ years experience.

Qualifications

• A communications career, not just communications exposure. You’ve built your expertise in corporate communications, integrated communications or a similarly broad communications environment, and understand how media, reputation, brand, internal communications and stakeholder engagement connect.
• Strong strategic instincts. You can take a business objective, understand what matters to different audiences and turn it into a communications strategy that leaders can actually use. You’re as comfortable giving counsel as you are executing the work yourself.
• Deep experience in reputation and issues management. You’ve operated in situations where the stakes are high and judgement matters. You understand that protecting reputation isn’t simply about controlling a message — it’s about understanding the business, anticipating risk and knowing how to communicate when there isn’t an obvious answer.
• Crisis communications experience that goes beyond a playbook. You’ve had to think clearly under pressure, advise leaders, coordinate stakeholders and communicate externally when the circumstances weren’t neatly packaged. You know that a crisis rarely arrives in the format you prepared for.
• Multi-market experience, ideally across Africa. You’ve managed reputation and communications across different geographies, cultures, regulatory environments and stakeholder landscapes. You understand that what works in one market may not work in another — and can balance local relevance with a consistent Group narrative.
• Stakeholder confidence. You’ll work with Country MDs, senior executives, government stakeholders, regulators, media and other external partners. You need to be able to build trust quickly, navigate different agendas and provide clear counsel — particularly when the answer isn’t straightforward.
• Strength across external and internal communications. External communications will be a significant part of the role, but you’ll also need to understand employee communications, leadership messaging, organisational change and culture — and how the two worlds influence each other.
• Excellent writing. You can turn complexity into clarity. You know when a message needs precision, when it needs personality and when it needs both. Whether you’re writing a press statement, executive briefing, leadership speech, crisis response or employee communication, the quality of your thinking should come through in the quality of your writing.
• Experience in complex, fast-moving environments. You may have worked in a fintech, technology business, high-growth company, agency or another matrixed organisation. What matters is that you’ve learned to operate across functions, influence without always having direct authority and get up to speed quickly when the context changes.
• Comfort operating lean. You don’t need a large team around you to get things done. You know when to bring in an agency or specialist, when to solve the problem yourself and how to keep momentum without unnecessary layers.
• Operational ownership. Agencies, suppliers and budgets aren’t someone else’s problem. You’re comfortable taking work from strategy through to execution — including procurement, POs, spend tracking and the finance administration that keeps the function moving.

Responsibilities

• One day you’re drafting a press statement under time pressure.
• The next, you’re on a call with a Country MD, working through why local execution has drifted from Group messaging — and helping them fix it, not just flagging it.
• You’re preparing a senior leader for a difficult conversation with an external stakeholder. You’re working with marketing on an integrated campaign and asking the questions that make sure the communications strategy supports the wider business objective.
• A regulatory issue emerges in one market. You need to understand it quickly, bring the right people together, assess the reputational implications and help determine what M-KOPA should say — and what it should do.
• You’re building the weekly media report that actually tells the Director something useful about sentiment and share of voice, not just a list of clippings.
• You’re in a planning session with People/HR, shaping how a sensitive organisational change gets communicated to employees across several countries.
• And somewhere in the same week, you’re raising a PO, chasing an invoice, or reconciling the department’s budget — because keeping the function’s engine running is as much your job as the storytelling is.

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