Crisis Communications Manager
| Location | Kampala, Uganda |
| Date Posted | April 15, 2026 |
| Category | Communication Management |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Currency | UGX |
Description

Job Summary:
Join our customer's team as a Crisis Communications Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in AI training and rubric development for high-stakes incident classification and escalation. Leverage your crisis management expertise to shape how critical communications and decisions are made within enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement robust crisis communication strategies tailored for enterprise contexts and AI-driven environments.
- Develop and refine rubrics and tasks for classifying incidents and making escalation decisions based on supplied data.
- Collaborate with AI training teams to ensure assessment rubrics are precise, actionable, and aligned with organizational workflows.
- Evaluate model outputs for clarity and structured reasoning, providing expert feedback to optimize AI performance in real-world scenarios.
- Advise on multi-stage crisis response planning, ensuring solid judgment under uncertainty and systematized escalation pathways.
- Interface with security, HR, and communications stakeholders to integrate crisis protocols into broader organizational operations.
- Produce high-quality written materials and deliver verbal presentations to inform both technical and non-technical audiences.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Proven experience in crisis management, incident response, business continuity planning, or emergency operations at the enterprise level.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with an ability to distill complex information into clear guidance.
- Demonstrated strength in exercising sound judgment and making decisions under pressure or uncertainty.
- Ability to develop, evaluate, and iterate on rubrics for structured reasoning and incident classification.
- Familiarity with cross-functional organizational workflows, especially in HR, security, and communications domains.
- Experience working with AI training teams or contributing to data-driven rubric design is highly advantageous.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage competing deadlines in a remote environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Background in AI ethics, model evaluation, or rubric-driven assessment frameworks.
- Advanced degree in crisis communications, organizational psychology, or a related field.
- Prior exposure to enterprise-level AI deployment or emergency response simulations.
