Communications Consultant
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About the Role
The Technology Innovation Institute is seeking a Communications Consultant to support Venture One, ATRC's commercialization arm, in strengthening its position as the UAE's deep-tech commercialization engine.
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Responsibilities
- Conduct market research and analysis to identify audience priorities, industry trends, competitor activity, and communications opportunities
- Support the development and delivery of communications plans for projects, campaigns, events, partnerships, and portfolio initiatives
- Coordinate closely with internal stakeholders, agencies, and the events team to align messaging, timelines, deliverables, and approvals
- Create, edit, and review content across multiple platforms, including press releases, articles, website copy, LinkedIn content, social media posts, event materials, briefing notes, case studies, and marketing collateral
- Work with internal teams and external agencies to develop content that aligns with brand voice, key messages, audience priorities, and strategic narrative
- Support the social media agency by providing clear briefs, reviewing content, coordinating inputs, and ensuring posts reflect the organization’s positioning, tone, and priorities
- Help make complex technologies, partnerships, and venture building activity clear, accurate, and compelling for external audiences
- Monitor current events, industry trends, media narratives, and public sentiment to identify opportunities, risks, and angles
- Support media coverage and brand visibility by helping develop story ideas, pitches, media materials, and spokesperson opportunities in collaboration with the agency
- Support media monitoring, coverage tracking, and reporting
- Prepare briefing materials, talking points, and background notes for media engagements, interviews, and events
- Support communications planning and delivery for events, roundtables, and speaking engagements
Requirements
- Experience in a semi government or complex enterprise environment, supporting communications campaigns, events, and stakeholder initiatives
- Excellent English writing, editing, and verbal communication skills
- Arabic language skills would be an advantage
- Strong media relations skills, including press activity, media materials, story development, and coverage support
- Ability to translate complex technical, commercial, and strategic topics for non technical audiences
- Experience coordinating with agencies, including briefing, reviewing deliverables, managing feedback, and tracking approvals
- Experience supporting event communications, including messaging, speaker materials, invitations, promotional content, and briefing notes
- Experience supporting social media, including content planning, copy review, agency coordination, and campaign execution
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships across internal teams, senior stakeholders, portfolio companies, agencies, and partners
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, timelines, deliverables, and approvals
- Good judgment, attention to detail, and confidence working in a fast moving, multi stakeholder environment
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Role Overview
- The Technology Innovation Institute’s Marketing and Communications – Shared Services team supports entities across Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council on communications and marketing.
- We are seeking a skilled Communications Consultant to support Venture One, ATRC’s commercialization arm and venture builder, in strengthening its position as the UAE’s deep tech commercialization engine.
- This role will support external communications across earned media, owned channels, stakeholder engagement, and events, helping build credibility with industry partners, investors, clients, government stakeholders, media, and future talent.
- The ideal candidate is a confident, skilled communicator and a capable project manager who can move work from planning to execution.
Communication Planning and Support
- Conduct market research and analysis to identify audience priorities, industry trends, competitor activity, and communications opportunities.
- Support the development and delivery of communications plans for projects, campaigns, events, partnerships, and portfolio initiatives.
- Coordinate closely with internal stakeholders, agencies, and the events team to align messaging, timelines, deliverables, and approvals.
Content Development and Review
- Create, edit, and review content across multiple platforms, including press releases, articles, website copy, LinkedIn content, social media posts, event materials, briefing notes, case studies, and marketing collateral.
- Work with internal teams and external agencies to develop content that aligns with our brand voice, key messages, audience priorities, and strategic narrative.
- Support the social media agency by providing clear briefs, reviewing content, coordinating inputs, and ensuring posts reflect the organization’s positioning, tone, and priorities.
- Help make complex technologies, partnerships, and venture building activity clear, accurate, and compelling for external audiences.
Media and Public Relations
- Monitor current events, industry trends, media narratives, and public sentiment to identify opportunities, risks, and angles.
- Support media coverage and brand visibility by helping develop story ideas, pitches, media materials, and spokesperson opportunities in collaboration with the agency.
- Support media monitoring, coverage tracking, and reporting.
- Prepare briefing materials, talking points, and background notes for media engagements, interviews, and events.
Events and Stakeholder Engagement
- Support communications planning and delivery for events, roundtables, and speaking engagements.
- Coordinate with the events team to ensure messaging, invitations, agendas, speaker materials, and digital/printed content are aligned with stakeholder needs, of high quality, and delivered on time.
- Help identify content opportunities before, during, and after events, including social media coverage, key takeaways, and stakeholder updates.
- Support direct stakeholder outreach by helping prepare emails, event materials, and other engagement assets.
Internal Reporting and Briefing
- Support regular internal reporting across media, social media, events, stakeholder engagement, and communications activity.
- Help prepare briefing documents, updates, and summaries for the leadership team.
- Track key deliverables, timelines, approvals, and outputs across workstreams.
- Capture campaign, event, and content performance to support planning and continuous improvement.
Preferred Knowledge and Experience
- Experience in a semi government or complex enterprise environment, supporting communications campaigns, events, and stakeholder initiatives.
- Excellent English writing, editing, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to develop clear, engaging content across media, digital, and stakeholder channels.
- Arabic language skills would be an advantage.
- Strong media relations skills, including press activity, media materials, story development, and coverage support.
- Ability to translate complex technical, commercial, and strategic topics for non technical audiences.
- Experience coordinating with agencies, including briefing, reviewing deliverables, managing feedback, and tracking approvals.
- Experience supporting event communications, including messaging, speaker materials, invitations, promotional content, and briefing notes.
- Experience supporting social media, including content planning, copy review, agency coordination, and campaign execution.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships across internal teams, senior stakeholders, portfolio companies, agencies, and partners.
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, timelines, deliverables, and approvals.
- Good judgment, attention to detail, and confidence working in a fast moving, multi stakeholder environment.
- Knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in communications, marketing, and stakeholder engagement.
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