A terrific job opportunity has opened up for junior social media and digital specialist at a popular radio broadcaster in Cape Town. This role is the ‘holy grail’ for someone young and dynamic; someone who lives and breathes social media. You’ll be responsible for the curation and aggregation of content and digital communities through strong analytical focus (as such analytics skills are essential to this role). You’ll be tasked with developing innovative products to commercialise these audiences. You must be able to write, create and edit video content, but you do not need to know to ‘design.’ Don’t miss the fantastic opportunity!

Responsibilities

• Curating and creating content (text, images, video) that delivers engagement across all platforms
• Analyse all platforms to ensure improvement and stronger engagement
• Lead the creation of podcasts and video
• Development of commercial products
• Implement digital strategy campaigns
• Collaboration with other departments
• Develop digital strategies to increase the number of visitors owned platforms
• Create, build and maintain our social media presence

RequirementsThe successful candidate must have/be:

• Relevant qualification in digital marketing
• Minimum two to three years of experience in digital marketing
• Adventurous, open-minded and creative
• Experience with WordPress, Google Ads, SEM, SEO, AdWords, other marketing channels
• Analytics experience – a must!
• Able to edit video
• Experience working on paid campaigns
• Copywriting, video and audio creation
• Passion for social media
• Analytical mind with focus on improvement
• Excellent communication skills
• Technically proficient and curious
• Work independently and within a team
• Continually learning
• Deadline drive and work under tight time constraints.

 Should you not receive a response within one week, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Company Description

Viv Gordon Placements (VGP) is a specialist recruitment agency in the advertising, marketing, media, digital, public relations and publishing industries.

Posted on 25 Sep 15:40

We are Conversion Advantage, a digital marketing agency based in Paarl, looking for a young, skilled Senior web developer who has a passion for technology in general and web development that can demonstrate this to us. The ideal candidate must be a fast learner, keen to take charge and deliver the required results asked of him/her. The job is based at our Knysna branch and own transport is required.

A breakdown of what you will be doing:

• The selected candidate will work closely with the team to create and code websites from scratch.
• Assist in the stabilising and testing of the project/product in conjunction with the user and business analyst.

Requirements: 

• Experience as a developer
• HTML5 and CSS
• Photoshop or other decent graphics editing software
• Knowledge of Dreamweaver CS3 or higher
• Knowledge of SQL
• Javascript
• jQuery
• Skills in responsive web design
• WordPress experience
• PHP
• Back end and front end development skills
• A graduate qualification in web development

Essential skills:

• Good coding skills in HTML (HTML5/XHTML), CSS and JavaScript.
• Server-side scripting language such as PHP, Python skills.
• Good knowledge of the principles of relational databases.
• Knowledge of and some experience in relevant frontend tools such as jQuery, Bootstrap.

Personal attributes:

• A keen interest in technological innovations.
• A drive to come up with new development ideas daily.
• A dynamic go-getter with amazing web development skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• A passionate, motivated, hardworking professional.
• An analytical thinker and problem solver.
• The ability to follow through.
• The ability to take charge.
• The ability to work as a team and take initiative.

Please visit our website for more information about Conversion Advantage:

http://conversionadvantage.com/

If you meet the requirements, send your CV and a portfolio of your programming skills (i.e. work you’ve coded) to the email address provided.

Posted on 25 Sep 11:53

A Cape Town based creative agency is looking to employ a digitally savvy marketer to assist in the management of multiple client campaigns. This vital position will manage the content calendars for the various marketing channels and will be responsible for fostering the brands by co-creating and coordinating exciting and engaging content interactions through email, social media, paid search, SEO, Blogs and Direct.

As custodian of the campaign calendars, the successful candidate will liaise with all brands and departments to ensure the various marketing channels work together to promote specials, promotions and highlights.

Key requirements

• Strong networking and communication skills
• Three to five years’ digital marketing experience
• Ability to work independently and with teams autonomously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Passionate about the Western Cape and travel and tourism
• Fluent in English (write, read, speak). Additional language advantageous

Primary responsibilities:

Planning and communication 

• Understanding all relevant brands and product; identifying and understanding the relevant competitors in each market; keeping up to date on all competitor and own-brand pricing and activity in relevant markets
• Identify areas of opportunity and produce annual plan ahead for digital marketing activities and campaigns challenges
• Assist in creating, updating and maintaining monthly multi-channel content calendars
• Identify and update target groups, audiences and customer segments
• Work with the design, content and web development teams to create immersive campaigns

Email marketing

• Create engagement calendars for all managed brands
• Segment databases and tag data to make personalised lists
• Brief in email design and content requirements including SEO
• Load, send and track mail campaigns

SEO

• Find growth keywords and build content strategy around them
• Identify potential backlink partners
• Identify third party collaborators and publications

Analytics

• Monitor and measure the success of online campaigns
• Analyse reports and suggest new campaigns and initiatives to enhance performance
• Update annual and monthly calendars accordingly

Programs and proficiencies

• Google Analytics
• Google AdWords
• SEO tools – e.g. SEMrush, Ahrefs, Moz, etc.
• Facebook Ads Manager/Facebook Business Manager
• Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube
• Asana (not imperative, but advantageous)
• WordPress (not imperative, but advantageous)

To apply for the position, please forward a motivational letter, an updated CV with a picture of yourself to

**Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us within 14 days – please consider your application unsuccessful**

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Posted on 23 Sep 13:54