Arabic Content Writer

at  APCO Worldwide

We have an exciting opportunity for an Arabic Content Writer to join our growing team in Dubai. The role would suit candidates who have experience in corporate communications or business communications.
By joining our team, you will be working with smart and experienced colleagues who are open, collaborative, diverse and curious. Clients come to us to help solve challenging problems, spark new ideas, launch campaigns and connect with others. We believe in the power of communication to effect change and we are excited by purposeful work.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist client in writing news releases, media invites, Q&As, speeches, features, bios and other internal communication material such as corporate/business presentations in PPT or other such software
• Review, edit and rewrite all messages as required by team members
• Ability to understand the requirements of various teams and convey the client’s key messages adequately and appropriately through effective use of language
• Support teams by providing error-free media-worthy material
• Suggest, tip and guide client-handling teams on matters related to media requests
• Interact with the team members and support them in building accurate communication measures
• Efficiently manage deadline-oriented workflow of releases, invites and requests from various team members on a daily basis
• Contribute to the development of new concepts, techniques or ideas at brainstorming sessions

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

• Literature/Journalism/Communications with a minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in Public Relations or Journalism, or equivalent work experience
• Previous experience as a member of a corporate communications team preferred
• Excellent grammar, editing, writing and re-writing skills;
• Fluent in English and Arabic
• A wordsmith who is proficient enough to provide error-free releases/invites that can be accepted by the media
• Ability to recognize the key messages of clients and offer effective ways to forcefully convey those messages
• Capable of rapidly handling industry-specific research to add value to the releases and other communication material for the teams
• Completely thorough with local, regional and global current-affairs
• Quick with computers especially skilled in MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook