Tourism Marketing Jobs - Basra Iraq

<p><br></p><p>Develop and evolve comprehensive social media strategies aligned with client business objectives, marketing priorities, and integrated communication, media, and performance goals. Lead the planning, execution, and optimization of paid and organic social initiatives across platforms including Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube. Oversee full-funnel social planning, including audience strategy, channel roles, creative input, media allocation, and performance optimization. Plan and oversee social content calendars and campaigns, ensuring alignment with brand priorities, seasonal moments, and marketing initiatives, while maintaining consistency, relevance, and brand integrity in day-to-day publishing across platforms. Manage end-to-end campaign workflows, including briefing, setup, QA, pacing, optimization, reporting, and post-campaign analysis. Own budget management, forecasting, and financial tracking to ensure efficient and effective media investment. Drive community management by fostering meaningful interactions, ensuring audiences receive timely, brand-appropriate responses, and strengthening audience relationships. Actively monitor social trends, platform updates, and cultural conversations to identify opportunities for brand participation, relevance, innovation, and platform testing that support continuous account growth. Utilize social listening tools to monitor brand sentiment, audience conversations, competitor activity, industry trends, and emerging topics, identifying opportunities, risks, and actionable insights that inform content strategies, community management, campaign optimization, and overall brand positioning. Leverage analytics and reporting tools to evaluate content and campaign performance, translating findings into actionable, data-driven insights and strategic recommendations that refine content, messaging, and platform approaches and improve efficiency, audience impact, ROI, and campaign effectiveness. Confidently present strategies, performance results, and growth opportunities to clients and senior stakeholders. Mentor and support junior team members, ensuring high-quality execution and capability development. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (media, strategy, analytics, creative, performance, and client servicing and leadership) to ensure cohesive storytelling, channel alignment, and integrated, performance-driven solutions.</p><p>ss the information you provide.</p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><h4>Skills and Experience</h4>At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. Success in this role requires embracing WPP &amp; WPP Media s shared core values: Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire Transformational Creativity Create an Open Environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences while Cultivating Trust Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth, Innovation, and Enterprise Collaboration <ul><li>Bachelor's degree in marketing, Communications, Digital Media, or a related field.</li><li>4 6+ years of experience in social media strategy, planning, and activation, preferably within a media agency or integrated marketing environment.</li><li>Strong expertise across major social platforms, including Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.</li><li>Strong knowledge of digital media and integrated marketing channels, with a deep understanding of all media, particularly digital platforms.</li><li>Up-to-date knowledge of current social media trends and platform updates.</li><li>Proven ability to manage campaigns, budgets, and performance optimization initiatives.</li><li>Advanced knowledge of social analytics, measurement frameworks, attribution models, and reporting tools, with hands-on experience using social publishing and listening tools.</li><li>Experience in community management, including audience engagement, conversation management, and timely, brand-aligned responses.</li><li>Fluent in English and Arabic, both written and spoken.</li><li>Strong client management, storytelling, and presentation skills.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to lead projects, manage multiple workstreams, and thrive in fast-paced environments.</li><li>Experience mentoring, guiding, or overseeing junior team members.</li><li>Excellent communication, collaboration, organizational, and analytical skills.</li></ul>

<p>Sell cross-entity packages (conferences + cinema + dining) to corporate and social clients Secure MICE, wedding, and corporate accounts across Basra's key sectors Partner with marketing to drive campaigns and lead generation Sell B2B F&amp;B buyouts and private cinema rentals</p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><h4>What You Bring:</h4><ul><li>4 6 years sales experience in hospitality, leisure, or entertainment</li><li>Proven track record selling rooms/events AND F&amp;B/entertainment</li><li>Strong corporate network in Basra</li><li>Familiarity with Opera, Sales &amp; Catering, POS systems</li><li>Fluent in Arabic &amp; English (mandatory)</li><li>Comfortable with multi-entity revenue targets</li></ul>

<p><h4>Overview</h4> <p>As operations advisor, you will play a critical role in leading safe and compliant operations at site. You’ll act as the key interface between the ROO operations team and field activities, with a strong focus on coaching, safety leadership, and operational discipline. Your ability to influence and support local teams will be essential in ensuring reliable performance and national workforce development.</p> <h4>Key responsibilities</h4> <strong>Leadership</strong><br> <p>Lead by promoting a strong safety culture, guiding daily safe production, managing incidents with root cause analysis, and coaching direct reports to support nationalisation and development plans.</p> <strong>Risk/Operating discipline</strong><br> <p>Ensure strict risk management and operating discipline by overseeing management of change, engineering queries, operational risk assessments, plant handover, control of work compliance, incident reporting, and exercising stop-work authority to maintain safety and operational integrity.</p> <strong>People</strong><br> <p>Lead by example to promote ROO values, develop and coach national staff, ensure HR compliance, motivate the team, manage performance rigorously, and escalate any unresolved issues through proper channels.</p> <strong>Production delivery, optimisation & excellent performance</strong><br> <p>Oversee daily plant and well performance to maximize production, support optimization and maintenance planning, lead root cause analyses, manage vulnerabilities, drive continuous improvement, ensure operations stay within design limits, contribute to scheduling and project support, identify defects, and fulfil reporting obligations.</p> <h4>Experience, qualifications & key skills</h4> <ul> <li>Minimum 10 years’ hydrocarbon operations experience</li> <li>Including 5+ years in supervisory roles</li> <li>Strong HSE knowledge and mastery of control of work systems</li> <li>Excellent interpersonal skills for coaching and leadership</li> <li>Proven ability to work independently with integrity</li> <li>Ongoing professional development</li> <li>Experience in diverse, multicultural teams preferred</li> </ul> <h4>Interfaces</h4> <p>Interfaces with BOC site leadership, ROO operations line, operations coordinator, site maintenance advisor, permit and area authorities, ROO control of work team, and cross-functional ROO teams (TAR, projects, engineering) for integrated planning.</p> <h4>Procedures and processes</h4> <p>The OA must have in-depth knowledge of key ROO procedures, including control of work (ORA, LO/LC, SORA), MOC/EQ process, work management and activity planning, risk management, PSSR, GOC, and SOPs.</p> <h4>Summary of decision rights</h4> <p>The OA has authority to stop work for safety, prioritize tasks, decide on the 2-week schedule, recommend ops coordinator development, and manage permits and SIMOPS coordination.</p> <h4>Behaviours</h4> <ul> <li>Safety-focused leader who coaches teams to reinforce ROO values</li> <li>Makes risk-aware decisions prioritizing high-impact work</li> <li>Provides proactive technical guidance</li> <li>Supports teams with clear direction and feedback</li> <li>Fosters cross-functional collaboration to achieve shared goals</li> </ul> <h4>Meetings to attend</h4> <p>Regularly attends and contributes to key daily, weekly, and ad hoc meetings including operations & maintenance reviews, CoW meetings (as chair), schedule planning, and TAR/project coordination to ensure alignment, readiness, and safe execution of site activities.</p> <h4>KPI’s</h4> <p>The OA is expected to achieve full compliance with key performance indicators including HSE targets, plant reliability, operational routines, override management, SOP adherence, nationalisation plan delivery, and accurate process safety incident reporting, while actively contributing to broader team goals.</p> <h4>Softwares & apps</h4> <p>The OA is expected to be a proficient user of key operational and reporting systems including Worksafe, Maximo, PI Vision, Power BI, Sharepoint, Sharecat, PMCS, FMD, and GIS.</p> <h4>Routine tasks</h4> <ul> <li><strong>Daily:</strong> Oversee plant performance, manage overrides, support safe production, and ensure CoW and ops discipline.</li> <li><strong>Weekly:</strong> Coach team, review execution, support planning, and drive improvements.</li> <li><strong>Monthly:</strong> Manage alarms with engineering and contribute to forward planning.</li> <li><strong>Ad hoc:</strong> Join project meetings and support readiness and operational alignment.</li> </ul> <h4>About BP and ROO</h4> <p>Rumaila is one of the world’s greatest super-giant oilfields – those that contain over a billion barrels of recoverable oil. It is estimated that some 17 billion barrels of recoverable oil are still contained within Rumaila’s reservoirs.</p> <p>The field is located 50km to the west of the city of Basra, southern Iraq. The Basra region is home to all six of Iraq’s ports, including the deep-water facility at Umm Qasr.</p> <p>Rumaila encompasses a vast area of 1,600 square kilometres, extending approximately 80km north to south and 20km west to east, with the main anticline consisting of two domes, South Rumaila and North Rumaila.</p> <p>Rumaila is part of the Iraq Basra Oil Company (BOC) family of oilfields. It is the largest producing field in Iraq, responsible for producing over 33% of Iraq’s oil. Oil has been produced at Rumaila for well over 50 years. A technical service contract signed in 2009 and extended in 2014, between BOC and BP, Petro-China and the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) is now driving the transformation of Rumaila into a sustainable world-class oilfield for Iraq and its people. This 25 year contract (to 2034) has laid the foundation for the long-term renewal of the field.</p> <p>This demands significant investment in infrastructure, technology and people. Progress is already visible and the oilfield is returning to full efficiency. Average daily production has increased by over 40% since mid-2009. World-class training and safety standards have been introduced. Around 7,000 people work at Rumaila and over 22,000 contractors support Rumaila’s activities through a large supply chain. The vast majority of these people are Iraqi.</p> <p>The next stage of Rumaila’s development is to access previously untapped reservoirs to extend the life of the field and deliver increased production.</p> <p>Our people are key to all of this. We are aiming to create an exemplary record for safety. We are building skills and capabilities. We are developing a culture built on respect for each other, with an ethos to behave responsibly in everything we do – be that in our corporate governance or in the way we safeguard our environment. This is how we will build a reputation as a great place to work and with whom to do business. Most importantly we want to ensure we are a good neighbour to the people and communities.</p> <p>Working together as one team under the technical service contract, the Basra Oil Company (BOC) and the State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO) along with contractors, BP and PetroChina, bring a range of different expertise and skills in modernizing this supergiant field.</p></p><p></p>

<p><h4>Overview</h4> <p>As operations advisor, you will play a critical role in leading safe and compliant operations at site. You’ll act as the key interface between the ROO operations team and field activities, with a strong focus on coaching, safety leadership, and operational discipline. Your ability to influence and support local teams will be essential in ensuring reliable performance and national workforce development.</p> <h4>Key responsibilities</h4> <p><strong>Leadership</strong><br> Lead by promoting a strong safety culture, guiding daily safe production, managing incidents with root cause analysis, and coaching direct reports to support nationalisation and development plans.</p> <p><strong>Risk / Operating discipline</strong><br> Ensure strict risk management and operating discipline by overseeing management of change, engineering queries, operational risk assessments, plant handover, control of work compliance, incident reporting, and exercising stop-work authority to maintain safety and operational integrity.</p> <p><strong>People</strong><br> Lead by example to promote ROO values, develop and coach national staff, ensure HR compliance, motivate the team, manage performance rigorously, and escalate any unresolved issues through proper channels.</p> <p><strong>Production delivery, optimisation & excellent performance</strong><br> Oversee daily plant and well performance to maximize production, support optimization and maintenance planning, lead root cause analyses, manage vulnerabilities, drive continuous improvement, ensure operations stay within design limits, contribute to scheduling and project support, identify defects, and fulfil reporting obligations.</p> <h4>Experience, qualifications & key skills</h4> <ul> <li>Minimum 10 years’ hydrocarbon operations experience</li> <li>Including 5+ years in supervisory roles</li> <li>Strong HSE knowledge and mastery of control of work systems</li> <li>Excellent interpersonal skills for coaching and leadership</li> <li>Proven ability to work independently with integrity</li> <li>Ongoing professional development</li> <li>Experience in diverse, multicultural teams preferred</li> </ul> <h4>Interfaces</h4> <p>Interfaces with BOC site leadership, ROO operations line, operations coordinator, site maintenance advisor, permit and area authorities, ROO control of work team, and cross-functional ROO teams (TAR, projects, engineering) for integrated planning.</p> <h4>Procedures and processes</h4> <p>The OA must have in-depth knowledge of key ROO procedures, including control of work (ORA, LO/LC, SORA), MOC/EQ process, work management and activity planning, risk management, PSSR, GOC, and SOPs.</p> <h4>Summary of decision rights</h4> <p>The OA has authority to stop work for safety, prioritize tasks, decide on the 2-week schedule, recommend ops coordinator development, and manage permits and SIMOPS coordination.</p> <h4>Behaviours</h4> <ul> <li>Safety-focused leader who coaches teams to reinforce ROO values</li> <li>Makes risk-aware decisions prioritizing high-impact work</li> <li>Provides proactive technical guidance</li> <li>Supports teams with clear direction and feedback</li> <li>Fosters cross-functional collaboration to achieve shared goals</li> </ul> <h4>Meetings to attend</h4> <p>Regularly attends and contributes to key daily, weekly, and ad hoc meetings including operations & maintenance reviews, CoW meetings (as chair), schedule planning, and TAR/project coordination to ensure alignment, readiness, and safe execution of site activities.</p> <h4>KPI’s</h4> <p>The OA is expected to achieve full compliance with key performance indicators including HSE targets, plant reliability, operational routines, override management, SOP adherence, nationalisation plan delivery, and accurate process safety incident reporting, while actively contributing to broader team goals.</p> <h4>Softwares & apps</h4> <p>The OA is expected to be a proficient user of key operational and reporting systems including Worksafe, Maximo, PI Vision, Power BI, Sharepoint, Sharecat, PMCS, FMD, and GIS.</p> <h4>Routine tasks</h4> <ul> <li>Daily: Oversee plant performance, manage overrides, support safe production, and ensure CoW and ops discipline</li> <li>Weekly: Coach team, review execution, support planning, and drive improvements</li> <li>Monthly: Manage alarms with engineering and contribute to forward planning</li> <li>Ad hoc: Join project meetings and support readiness and operational alignment</li> </ul> <h4>About BP and ROO</h4> <p>Rumaila is one of the world’s greatest super-giant oilfields – those that contain over a billion barrels of recoverable oil. It is estimated that some 17 billion barrels of recoverable oil are still contained within Rumaila’s reservoirs.</p> <p>The field is located 50km to the west of the city of Basra, southern Iraq. The Basra region is home to all six of Iraq’s ports, including the deep-water facility at Umm Qasr.</p> <p>Rumaila encompasses a vast area of 1,600 square kilometres, extending approximately 80km north to south and 20km west to east, with the main anticline consisting of two domes, South Rumaila and North Rumaila.</p> <p>Rumaila is part of the Iraq Basra Oil Company (BOC) family of oilfields. It is the largest producing field in Iraq, responsible for producing over 33% of Iraq’s oil. Oil has been produced at Rumaila for well over 50 years. A technical service contract signed in 2009 and extended in 2014, between BOC and BP, Petro-China and the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) is now driving the transformation of Rumaila into a sustainable world-class oilfield for Iraq and its people. This 25 year contract (to 2034) has laid the foundation for the long-term renewal of the field.</p> <p>This demands significant investment in infrastructure, technology and people. Progress is already visible and the oilfield is returning to full efficiency. Average daily production has increased by over 40% since mid-2009. World-class training and safety standards have been introduced. Around 7,000 people work at Rumaila and over 22,000 contractors support Rumaila’s activities through a large supply chain. The vast majority of these people are Iraqi.</p> <p>The next stage of Rumaila’s development is to access previously untapped reservoirs to extend the life of the field and deliver increased production.</p> <p>Our people are key to all of this. We are aiming to create an exemplary record for safety. We are building skills and capabilities. We are developing a culture built on respect for each other, with an ethos to behave responsibly in everything we do – be that in our corporate governance or in the way we safeguard our environment. This is how we will build a reputation as a great place to work and with whom to do business. Most importantly we want to ensure we are a good neighbour to the people and communities.</p> <p>Working together as one team under the technical service contract, the Basra Oil Company (BOC) and the State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO) along with contractors, BP and PetroChina, bring a range of different expertise and skills in modernizing this supergiant field.</p></p><p></p>