About

I am a Public Relations and Communications specialist, with national and international experience in strategic corporate and development communication, broadcast, print and digital media production.

Skills

  • Media relations
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  • Communication for international organizations
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  • social media management
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  • Content creation and distribution
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  • Storytelling and documentation
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  • Community Engagement and Outreach
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  • Report writing and documentation
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  • Event planning and support
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  • Brand Management
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  • Strategic Communications
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  • Program support
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  • M&E support
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  • Photography and videography
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  • Office admin support
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  • Stakeholder Communication
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  • Media Monitoring
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Experience

grace wangui

Work experience
  • Media relations: Mobilizing media during BATUK events and pitching news stories to the media for publication.
  • Content creation and distribution: Press releases, video and
  • photographic content from BATUK training and community engagement activities for publication on mainstream media, and on British Army website and BATUK social media channels (Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube).
  • Storytelling and documentation through articles and features for external and internal media and audience.
  • Media monitoring and briefing BATUK Commander and staff on stories, themes, and narratives in the mainstream and social media.
  • Acting as Swahili-language spokesperson on media in Kenya and
  • regionally.
  • Identifying opportunities to promote BATUK in Kenya and the wider East Africa Region.
  • Facilitating media interviews for BATUK personnel.
  • Brand management: Ensuring BATUK brand guidelines are met and used appropriately.

grace wangui

Work experience
  • Event planning: I led the planning for ICRISAT Kenya’s 50-year
  • anniversary by coordinating communication and admin activities. The celebration was hybrid and included an exhibition by farmers.
  • Media relations: I liaised with the media for coverage of ICRISAT activities in Kenya, organized media appearances for ICRISAT’s country director and other researchers, prepared info packages for the media, kept an updated media contact list, and pitched features to the media for publication to enhance ICRISAT’s public profile.
  • Content creation: production and circulation of press releases to media houses; internal newsletter, photographs and videos through social media (Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, Flicker, and YouTube); and fliers, brochures, banners, and booklets.
  • Storytelling and documentation: I developed and circulated ICRISAT’s research success stories, best practices, and impact stories on various ICRISAT project activities which were published on ICRISAT and its affiliate project (AVISA) websites.
  • Brand management: I ensured ICRISAT, donors, and partners’ branding guidelines are consistent and adhered to by stakeholders, media, and consultants.
  • Enhancing Visibility-I provided communication support to ICRISAT’s country representatives in the other East and Southern Africa countries (Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe) especially development of communication materials during ICRISAT public events and activities.
  • Program support: I worked with program teams from various ICRISAT projects to increase ICRISAT’s visibility through communication and branding, and also supported them in project logistics during events.
  • Worked with consultants to produce communication materials including fliers, factsheets, newsletters, banners, folders, etc.
  • Supporting Monitoring and Evaluation teams in capturing data through photos, audio, and videos, as well as designing reports layouts.

grace wangui

Work experience
  • Developed research and impacts stories on AWARD program initiatives and activities, and produced e-newsletters.
  • Corporate branding during AWARD events especially AWARD@10 (Ten- year anniversary celebrations), training workshops, exhibitions and conferences.
  • Collaborated with contracted videographers to produce videos on AWARD’s impact.
  • Provided audio-visual support to contracted videographers and photographers.
  • Coordinated exhibition during AWARD events like the 10-year anniversary celebrations.
  • Media relations and management of media database.
  • Social media management (Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, YouTube and LinkedIn). During AWARD’s 10 years’ anniversary celebrations, the event was among the top five trending topics on Twitter.
  • Website and photo gallery management .
  • Worked with the AWARD team in ensuring that the program's brand guidelines are met.

grace wangui

Work experience
  • August, 2013 - February, 2018
  • Fulltime
  • Media Liaison for Abercrombie & Kent Global Health (Kenya) Ltd in 2013 and Land Development and Governance.
  • Photography.
  • Facilitated CSOs media capacity development workshops, training of journalists on governance issues, and media briefings for the CSOs during Rooting for Democracy for an Informed Citizenry project, by Inforkomm Media and URAIA Trust.
  • Facilitated needs assessment through FGDs and carried out research and interviews with youths in Nairobi’s informal settlements for a multimedia interactive youth show, by BBC Media Action.
  • Facilitated media briefings and meetings for Council of Governors, The National Taskforce on Community Policing (nyumba kumi), Judiciary, KIRI Consult among others.
  • Produced articles for JTI (Judiciary Training Institute) E-newsletter.
  • Produced daily media digest (Print media) for the Judiciary.

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