Brand Executive at RegCharles Finance and Capital Limited

RegCharles Finance and Capital Limited - The company is a Social and Impact Investment company as well as commercial investment company that combines a mixture of debt, equity, quasi-equity, micro-credit/lending and micro-equity models in financing MSMEs. The company is noted for providing start up and growth finance, with a proven track record for growing micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria and Sub-saharan Africa. As a real financier and advisor to MSMEs, we are at the forefront of helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses into sustainable and successful businesses that make a profit year on year. We invest in the future value and potential of entrepreneurs who own businesses at any stage of development, across all sectors. We offer business finance and support, expertise and guidance to businesses for the duration of their relationship with us. The Company strives to be the leading micro, small and medium enterprise financier, the one that everyone wants to work for, do business with or refer to as a result of our best-in-sector performance.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Brand Executive

Responsibilities of the Brand Executive:

• Supports the Head, Business Support to define/update the Vision and objectives of RegCharles..
• Develops communications plans, manages events and programmes with budgets based on periodic business plans justifiable vis-à-vis revenues and growth estimates.
• Supports the development of image building/management strategies and programmes.
• Ensures development and implementation of consistent and vision-aligned policies for internal and external communications and branding efforts; monitors compliance and recommends sanctions for non-compliance.
• Supports the Head, Business Support in the development of Marketing-wide communication systems, policies and practices; ensures compliance to communications models and templates
• Oversees the career development, capability development and progression of team members and supports their growth.
• Develops and monitors the Unit’s budget and implements various initiatives to optimize costs, while delivering quality solutions of high impact
• Supports Change Management efforts on entity level projects and business initiatives with specific focus on Communication Strategy development and deployment
• Oversees the transaction processing and solutions implementation efforts of the Unit and ensures administrative efficiency on a daily-basis
• Produces/provides periodic updates and management reports on the activities of the department..
• Manages key relationships with stakeholder groups including internal clients, general employee groups, external parties (Advertising Agencies, Media, Government Agencies, Corporate/regulatory, Organizations, Vendors etc)
• To ensure successful work of high quality outputs.
• Open up a pipeline of deals and work flow channels for the company via image building, media interactions etc

Other Duites As Required By Management

• Generate funds, notes and liabilities for investment purposes in the company
• Generate and expand pipeline of deals in line with the company’s focus and business initiatives
• The candidate will focus on creating structures and opportunities capable of attracting these groups into our business. The role is supposed to help the company to achieve its vision and mission encouraging and empowering entrepreneurship among our youths, undergraduates and young school leavers.
• Responsible for product development and fund designs suitable for the businesses of MSMEs.
• Coordinating closely with social, environmental and technical assistance colleagues in order to add value to our clients' businesses, finding pragmatic solutions to the specific sector challenges, to achieve sustainable development impact;
• Collaborating in developing sector and regional strategies and supporting related policy advisory work; and
• Other duties as required by management from time to time

Desired Attributes, Qualifications And Skills
To be considered for this role the candidate must meet the following criteria:

• You must have strong writing and reporting skills
• The desired candidate must have strong networks and have the ability to develop networks with the media
• You must be able to overcome challenges related with managing small businesses
• The ideal candidate should have at least 2years experience in this field

Qualifications:

• University degree with a minimum of 2:2,
• Masters degree and other professional qualifications will be an added advantage,
• Must not be more than 28 years,
• Industry knowledge and understanding will be most desired,
• Strong writing skills
• Business development and client relationship skills, track record and ability to focus on clients needs effectively;
• Ability to interact directly and independently with the senior management of potential clients, of financial and technical partners,
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English etc
• Strong inter-personal and team working skills, ability to interact effectively with clients and colleagues from various cultural backgrounds.

Application Closing Date
7th February, 2014

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send your CV as to: [email protected]

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