Job description

OnPoint PR  is a leading boutique public relations agency based in Johannesburg with clients in South Africa and Globally. We work with a wide range of clients across different sectors, including Lifestyle, FMCC, Sports, Financial Services, and NGO’s. 

What we are looking for:

We are seeking a dynamic, results-oriented, public relations professional to join the OnPoint PR team. The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator, very strong writer, and have a proven track record of developing and implementing strategic plans. They should have hands-on experience of corporate, B2B and targeted consumer PR and communications campaigns. 

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with an ambitious spirit looking to have real impact on a growing global business.

What you will do:

• Assist with the development AND execution of strategic public relations programs that build equity, increase engagement, and drive measurable business results.
• Craft well-written thought leadership content (press releases, bylines, blogs, LinkedIn posts, award submissions) that is on point with key messages.
• Develop smart messaging and briefing guides that are effective in keeping spokespeople on message; conduct media prep calls and media training.
• Have a hands-on approach to identifying and pitching target media and generating positive coverage; championing and owning key media relationships.
• Successfully collaborate and build trusted relationships with marketing and sales leaders to identify the right communications strategies and tactics to meet business goals.
• Help create and implement communications plans, including defining messaging, in support of product launches, campaigns and other business initiatives as needed.
• Be an authority on public relations and communications standard methodologies.
• Proactively identify PR process improvement opportunities and solutions.
• Have a goal-oriented approach and ability to measure and report on outcomes.

Requirements:

• Experience leading the development and implementation of effective PR programs that drive measurable results.
• Skillful writer who can create high level content and provide editing / messaging feedback to others.
• A+ written and verbal communications skills.
• Consistent track record of building media relationships and securing targeted, on-message coverage.
• Ability to adapt quickly in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Mix of corporate and agency experience; experience working with global organizations is a plus.
• Self-motivated, dedicated and hard-working, with strong problem solving, creative thinking and interpersonal skills.
• Professional demeanor with the ability to work and establish credibility with a range of partners from all levels of responsibilities, up to the CEO.
• Knowledge of measurement and reporting tools and standard methodologies.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to regularly identify and prioritise the most newsworthy institutional, programs and special events;
• Develop public relations campaigns for society-wide initiatives and events, drafting press releases, curating media contacts, customising outreach, and following up;
• Manage outsourced publicists, writers, eventing staff, agencies and consultants, to ensure that all PR campaigns are executed in a manner consistent with the organization’s messaging and standards;
• Oversee press events and handle press check-ins at events, as needed;
• Directly review and approve all social media content before it’s posted; work closely with marketing staff to ensure that all other content (print, email, website)
• Maintain organization’s press tools, assets, media kits and clippings;  
• Keep on top of shifting media trends and adapt strategies to maximise PR value;
• Generate press reports with coverage highlights and reputation assessment.
• Develop and oversee targeted public relations strategies and execution of tactical plans for clients and our business
• Ensure smooth communication and coordination across all media campaigns and channels including digital
• Assist with creating and executing social media and digital tactical campaigns
• Efficiently and effectively plans and manages (e.g. events/press conferences, media tours, analyst meetings, advocate briefings, etc.
• Oversee briefings and opportunity management with media and clients
• Oversee and assist with team’s identification, pitching and follow-up with editorial opportunities and new media opportunities
• Stay informed of industry trends and media moves
• Anticipates and assists in developing solutions to client needs and problems
• Develop and maintain successful relationships with key media members
• Conduct regular client reporting – weekly, monthly and quarterly, keeping abreast of each client’s industry; competition and coverage

Requirements

• A minimum experience of FIVE years in a progressive public relations position of a fast moving and dynamic business environment. In addition to this, must have a proven and successful experience in planning and managing multiple PR projects in a stressful environment or under tight deadlines.eliable transport (own reliable vehicle essential)
• Must have a PR qualification – preferably honours degree in PR and Communication.
• The PR Manager must have experience working with traditional PR channels as well as key social media channels such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. In addition, must have a proven and successful experience working in a collaborative and cross-functional setting. The candidate must also have a proven track record of successfully executed media strategies while working in a PR position.
• Must be proficient in Ms Word, PowerPoint, and Ms Excel. This is to ensure the creation of creative content for presentations; content that is not only verbally engaging but also visually captivating.
• The candidate must demonstrate an ability to convey complex and technical concepts to non-technical audiences in a simple and clear manner that they can relate to; he/she must possess an ability to tailor messages in accordance to the audience.
• The position is a highly interactive position and communications skills of the occupier must, therefore, be top notch, both in written and verbal form. The PR Manager is a representative of the business and an embodiment of its messages and products, as such; the PR Manager must have an outstanding ability to communicate those messages in the clearest and most concise manner, bringing about a positive outlook on the business especially to external partners, stakeholders, and consumers.
• Proven track record of media contacts/relations.
• Excellent writing skills essential.
• Proven experience of presenting to clients and or delivering new business presentations/pitches.
• Candidate must be able to work in a small business environment where at times it may be necessary to do tasks beyond the job description.
• Must be extremely familiar with navigating key social media platforms and in social media trends that will enable the business to access a sizeable portion of its consumer, potential consumers, and media outlets found online.
• Must have an ability to develop, implement, and evaluate complex PR plans and strategies and in successfully executing them. Must also demonstrate skill and genuine interest in research and analysis of current PR trends that will keep the business at par with competing businesses in the market.
• The candidate must be capable of developing relevant but creatively compelling messages that address the consumers’ interests.
• Must have the ability to work with researchers in the development of creative and innovative PR strategies and tactics that ensures the business and product a competitive edge.
• Must be self-motivated; have the ability to work well in a team setting; must be an enthusiastic problem solver; have excellent negotiation skills coupled with an ability to move and influence masses of people; and be an quick learner who easily catches on with market trends and relays them to the business.
• Travelling for events depending on location might be required from time to time.

Posted on 23 Aug 16:02

This is a small dev team doing a big job and they’re expanding as the platforms gain success across Africa.

It’s not banking work but it is huge traffic, low latency, milliseconds response rates type of work.

Very flexible. Very much a tech, product shop with all the stereotypes that come with that. Lots of untaxed benefits (lunch, beer, arcade games etc). Lots of tech.

You’ll find two lines of work.

Your employer is expanding both their feature sets; they’re driving heavyweight optimisation (atm they are literally getting results in milliseconds in certain areas but there is some debt they need to bring inline); the debt demands upgrades into a .NET Core, Azure, Linux type of architecture.

Features of the job:

• Negatives – lots of releases, all the time (none on weekends tho). The very low margin for error. Some pressure but mostly mitigated by automation.
• Tons of new work with the added challenge of optimising your code to a level beyond anything in a vanilla dev job.
• Easy going, tech-driven management, lots of flexi-time – they believe more in delivery than they do clock watching.
• You can also drop the button-up shirts for the rest of your life.

Tech:

• It’s a C# shop. Right now they’re coding in v 7; but a big move across to .NET Core is being plotted.
• Their platforms are unlikely to move off-prem in the short term; but Azure is being introduced.
• They’re more interested in your engineering mindset than buzzwords, everything that follows would be nice but not essential:
• Swagger / REST for similar.
• Azure OR AWS OR GCP OR something else.
• Modern Javascript – Angular OR REACT OR VUE.JS – although they will also happily chat to back end devs.
• SQL Server – T-SQL is a staple for you but you also know how to get into nitty-gritty optimising and performance-based concepts.
• CI / CD type concepts – you’ve at least thought to yourself about how you would automate any repetitive task in your day.
• Openshift OR Kubernetes OR Docker or something similar – they don’t know what tools they’ll use yet but the concepts are coming soon.

This is perm work. It’s very near to a Gautrain station (if you don’t actually live in Pretoria) and they’re interviewing now. Pop your CV across to me at

az.oc.egrem-e@delocin

and let’s chat.

Reference number for this job is ND46862

Posted on 23 Aug 14:49

Job description

A sophisticated Hotel situated in Sandton is seeking a Restaurant Manager to be fully responsibility for the restaurant/s & bars for the property.  Responsible for operations and profitability by effectively planning, leading, organising and controlling, all aspects of strategy, marketing, budgets, standards and finances.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Minimum of 8  years’ experience in a restaurant environment in total
• Minimum of 4 years restaurant management experience
• Minimum of 2 years F&B Experience in Hotels
• Grade 12
• Further Industry-related qualification (Desirable).

Job Knowlege and Skills Required:

• Computer literacy:  Word, Excel, Micros or Relevant POS system
• Working knowledge of Human Resource Policies and Practices;
• Working knowledge of Legislation applicable to the a Food and Beverage operation;
• Understanding of Marketing & Sales Principles within the Food & Beverage environment;
• In-depth knowledge of Food, Wine, Liquor and Beverage;
• In-depth knowledge of stock management;
• Working knowledge of equipment used in a Food & Beverage operation;
• Understanding of the Time & Motion Principles in a kitchen, restaurant and service departments
• Working knowledge of Financial & Administrative Principles;
• Working knowledge of POS and PMS systems;
• Basic understanding of IT, AV & Telecomms software & hardware systems;
• Knowledge of Diverse Cultures
• Problem Solving Skills;
• Negotiating Skills;
• Interpersonal Skills;
• Leadership Skills;
• Training & Coaching Skills;
• Numerical and Verbal Reasoning Skills;
• Communication Skills;
• Organisational Skills

Other Requirements:

• Be willing and able to be trained and developed.
• Sound personal hygiene.
• Energetic and enthuastic.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and challenging environ-ment and maintain a consistently high
• Standard of food delivery under pressure.
• Positive and flexible approach to work (weekend and evening work will be required.
• Must be able to work flexible hours to include all shifts, week-ends and holidays

Posted on 22 Aug 16:00

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Our client is on the lookout for a Java developer. The business is renowned as one of the big four banks in the country. This is an opportunity to take your Java development career to the next level. You’ll be using cutting edge technologies with a bank in Randburg.

You’ll be involved in creating telephony systems to replace an already existing legacy system. This role requires someone with a strong technical background to be able to understand the complexity of the existing solutions in place and support them with a high degree of competence.

Non-negotiable must-haves:

• Java 7
• CI (Continuous Integration)
• SQL (Oracle, Postgres)
• AngularJS
• Apache
• Swing
• Java EE Container(Glassfish (Payara), Tomcat, JBoss , Websphere)
• HTML/HTML5/ASP
• Custom MVC Framework, Vraptor
• CSS/CSS3/SCSS

Nice to have:

• Working on Agile Environment (Jira, Confluence)
• Micro Services
• DevOps
• Openshift (docker, etc)
• Build Tools (Angular CLI/ Gradle/ Gulp/grunt/ebpack )
• IoC/Dependancy Injection
• ASP/prime faces
• JQuery

Reference number for this position is DM46458 which is a permanent position based in Randburg offering a salary of R850K negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Dominic on

az.oc.egrem-e@mcinimod

or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 20 Aug 14:04