Senior Executive, Media and Communications, Singapore

• Understand how to craft messages for different target audiences.
• Evaluate effectiveness of messaging efforts through research insights.

• Identify and build a bank of potential news stories that amplify the agency’s narrative and programmes.
• Identify relevant channels, story types, appropriate spokespersons, pitching strategy to secure media stories. Collaborate with partner agencies where applicable.
• Prepare media releases, factsheets, bios, media briefing documents, post‑event media coverage reports with minimal guidance.
• Respond to routine queries on agency's services and policies in accordance with defined guidelines.
• Understand current news that the agency intends to communicate and determine if there is a sufficiently fresh news angle.
• Support media events to maximise positive coverage of the agency's policies and principals.

• Assist, support and coordinate administrative and logistics for media cultivation programmes.

• Prepare all corporate and internal communications materials including annual reports, corporate collaterals (brochures, fact sheets, videos, presentations, branding materials), staff announcements and organise staff townhalls amongst other things.

• Work closely with the marketing communications and other IPOS teams to align messaging, develop story pipelines, integrate and coordinate communications work across all channels for maximum impact.
• Support ongoing integration work for the corporate communications and marketing communications teams to ensure clarity, synergies, and alignment of work processes.

• Relevant training in communications, journalism or marketing or its equivalent.
• Strong public relations or communications background with 4 years of demonstrable track record at an agency or in an in‑house role with public/private sector agencies or companies.
• Outstanding writing skills with the ability to write in a journalistic style, with speed, clarity and simplicity. Proficiency in Mandarin Chinese is a plus.
• A skilled user of emerging technologies to augment communications work.
• A keen understanding of the local media landscape.
• Experience in cultivating local media.
• A creative thinker with a keen eye for detail.
• A strong team player with polished interpersonal skills.

We are looking for an experienced communications professional who has a passion for media relations, corporate and internal communications.

You have a knack for sniffing out story angles that will get the attention of mainstream media and enjoy seeing through the entire process of garnering media stories – from researching and identifying story angles, to pitching stories, to arranging interviews, to monitoring and analysing media coverage.