Vacancy title:
Senior Manager Public Relations and Corporate Communications

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Banking, Category: Media, Communications & Writing]

Jobs at:
KCB Bank

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, October 3 2025

Duty Station:
Kenya | Nairobi | Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: Sunday, September 28 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Reporting to the Head, Corporate & Stakeholder Relations, this position is responsible for developing and implementing high impact public relations and corporate communication strategies to build a sustainable corporate image and reputation for the KCB Group brand. 

Key Responsibilities

• Implementing the organization's public relations and corporate communications strategy within prescribed guidelines and budgets.
• Identify and capitalize on opportunities to promote and positively represent the organization through external communication including public speaking and thought leadership opportunities for the executive leadership.
• Creating and managing valuable media partnerships and engagement plans and facilitate media visibility and publicity for all corporate events, functions and activities
• Ensure that all corporate communications generated by the Bank align to the Brand communications policies and procedures, represents the corporate identity and promotes the organizations mission.
• Develop appropriate metrics for measuring impact of corporate communication initiatives and provide appropriate reports on the ROI on corporate communications engagements.
• Work with other communications teams across the Group subsidiaries to ensure there is cohesive, consistent messaging and communications across the Group.
• Provide subject matter expertise to the design, production and editing of corporate publications and press information and writing and editing the Bank's publication materials and corporate events launches.
• Developing effective crisis response communications to mitigate the publicity reputational risks.
• Coordinating all external public relations initiatives including public speaking opportunities for Executives, partnerships events, stakeholder engagement forums, corporate advertisements, media supplements and development of documentaries.
• Originating speeches, statements, profiles and other forms of corporate communications for executive leadership.

The Person

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following: 

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in communications, Public Relations, or a related field from a recognized university.
• Possession of a professional certification in Marketing or Public Relations will be an added advantage.
• Have a minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience, with expertise demonstrated in:
  • Corporate Communications
  • Public Relations
  • Media Relations
• Have at least 5 years’ experience in:
  • Brand Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • People Management
• Have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in:
  • Protocol Management
  • Employee Engagement 

The above position is a demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV. 

To be considered your application must be received by Friday 3^rd October 2025

Qualified candidates with disability are encouraged to apply.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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