Communication Officer (Reference not applicable)

Advertiser: Department of Cooperative Governance

Location: Pretoria

Salary: R170 799 per annum (Salary Level 7)
Positions: Two (2)

Requirements:
A three -year Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Communication / Public Relations / Marketing with appropriate experience in a communication environment.
Core competencies:
- Change management
- Knowledge management
- Planning and organising
- Project management
- Communication
- Client orientation and customer focus
- Honesty and integrity.

Technical competencies:
- Communication strategy development
- Events management and branding.

Duties:
The successful candidate will perform the following duties:
- Implementation of the public relations strategy and policy
- Plan and execute internal and external events such as media, community, Government relations, political campaigns, stakeholder / interest group representation, conflict mediation and international and local stakeholder and donor relations
- Assist in developing strategies to implement and / or improve public relations programmes involving governmental relations
- Organise exhibitions for the department
- Assist in maintaining cooperative relationships with stakeholder and representatives from print and broadcast journalism
- Perform related duties as assigned, for example, ad hoc events
- Provide branding support
- Liaise with service providers in terms of branding and sourcing of promotional material.

Enquiries: Mr B Rakate, Tel (012) 336 5806

The vision of the Department of Cooperative Governance is one of having a well-co-ordinated system of Government consisting of National, Provincial and Local spheres working together to achieve sustainable development and service delivery. The Department intends to invest in human capital, increase integrated technical capacity directed at service delivery and promote representivity in the Department through the filling of these post. Candidature of persons whose appointment / transfer / promotion will promote representivity will therefore receive preference.

Applications:
Please forward your application, quoting the relevant reference number to the following address: Department of Cooperative Governance, Private Bag x 804, Pretoria 0001 or hand-deliver to: 87 Hamilton Street, Cnr Johannes Ramokhase (Proes) Street and Hamilton Street, Arcadia, for the attention of: Human Resource Management. Application enquiries can be directed to: Ms M Bakhane, tel (012) 395-4728

Note:
Applications must be submitted on a Z83 form (click to download pdf form) and should be accompanied by a comprehensive CV and certified copies of qualifications and ID. It is the applicant’s responsibility to have foreign qualifications evaluated by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.

Incomplete applications or applications received after the closing date will not be considered. Due to the large number of responses anticipated, correspondence will be limited to short-listed candidates only. If you have not been contacted within three months after the closing date of the advertisement, please accept that your application has been unsuccessful. We thank you for the interest shown in our Department.

Reference number: Not applicable

Closing date: 10 May 2013