Corporate Communications Officer

**Job Advert Summary**:
Spur Corporation is a growing multi-brand restaurant franchisor, headquartered in Cape Town. The group currently has eight brands, namely, Spur Steak Ranches, Spur Grill & Go, Panarottis Pizza Pasta, John Dory’s Fish Grill Sushi, RocoMamas, The Hussar Grill, Casa Bella and Nikos Coalgrill Greek. In order to retain an exceptional talent pool, the group endeavours to create a great place to work, building a collaborative and innovative performance-based culture which enables each employee to thrive on his or her unique Spur Corporation journey. Spur Corporation’s employees are passionate and purpose-driven people growing great brands. Through their dedicated service and talent, they offer support to the group’s endeavours and operational activities, offering an exceptional return on investment to all its shareholders. A career at Spur Corporation is an opportunity for an employee to nurture, learn, grow, and realise their full potential.

A position has become available in the Transformation & Communication Department at the Head Office, Cape Town for a Corporate Communications Officer.The key focus of this position is to enable Spur Corporation’s commitment to keeping people internally informed, updated, sharing knowledge and news to improve engagement, efficiency and productivity.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Appropriate three-year National Diploma/Degree or equivalent in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations, or Media Studies.
- Appropriate experience in a corporate communication environment, public relations, or marketing environment.
- Appropriate internal communication in corporate communications.
- Client management experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Content management for both web and internal communications.
- Excellent writing and editing skills in English.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Craft and execute a Communication Plan with a strong internal focus - develop a holistic internal communication strategy and corporate digital communication operating plan in consultation with the Corporate Communications Manager and other internal stakeholders.
- Acquire and maintain a detailed knowledge of the company’s policies, principles and strategies, and keep up-to-date with relevant developments.
- Conduct interviews for video/print/online content.
- Produce informative written, visual and digital content for a variety of different communication channels and media platforms to strengthen employee understanding, build awareness and engagement from all stakeholders.
- Manage the compilation and distribution of internal newsletters, announcements and presentations including writing and editing content, arranging photography and overseeing design.
- Give direction to communication-related service providers such as videographers and designers.
- Ensure internal communications messages are consistent across all mediums and all internal communication tools are used correctly.
- Help to maintain the internal communications calendar and consult with the Communications Manager on changes.
- Assist leadership with research and the crafting of messaging as well as any communications planning needs.
- Assist Communications Manager with change management - communicate within and across the company about organisational changes and transformation as well as other initiatives which require communication support to effectively drive change.
- Provide support for sustainability initiatives and projects. Help manage sustainability events, draft proposals and proactively seek new opportunities.
- Stay abreast of issues, risks and opportunities impacting Spur Corporation and foresee and raise risks relating to internal communications issues.
- Seek opportunities to continually improve the internal communication function; actively pursue best practices and strive to establish standards of excellence in the delivery of all internal communication channels and platforms.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or requested.