Job description

We’re looking for a social media community manager to place in a well-established and forward-thinking camping, hiking and outdoor brand with HQ in the Cape Town City Bowl. The right candidate is passionate about the boundary-pushing difference that great copywriting and skilful online relationship building can play in cutting edge Social Media Community management across all social media channels.

You are an authentic outdoors enthusiast and gear-and-gadget lover and are engaged with like-minded communities in the regular course of your life. You’re helpful by nature and focused and comfortable working online in a progressive corporate team environment where attention to detail is vital.

This position is a fixed-term contract with the opportunity for the right candidate to progress to permanent employment in a progressive company committed to investing in employee training and looking for dynamic individuals to grow within this well-established business and great work environment.

Requirements

• Copywriting, journalistic or editorial experience, and social media experience.
  Authentic interest in the outdoors – camping/trail running / hiking etc.
• An understanding of brand personality and connecting with brand fans on social media in the appropriate persona is a talent you demonstrate with panache.
• You have an avid interest in the future of ‘Social Media Community Management’ as an exciting emerging field, and bring an exciting repertoire of possibilities for what can be done in practice in this field

Posted on 12 Jun 15:28

Job description

The main responsibility will be to drive a quality audience to visit and engage with digital platforms: web, mobile and social in order to hit Applications (APPs) download, registration, usage and retention.

Company Description

Our Client is a leading music streaming business.

Requirements

• Customer Acquisition Management 
• Media Planning / Buying
• Digital Marketing Management 
• Social Media Analytics
• Social Media Management
• Facebook
• Pay Per Click (PPC)
• Application (App)

Advantageous

Knowledge and experience

• 3+ years of experience planning and buying media with hands on-experience with digital media platforms.
• Experience using DSPs, agency trading desks, or other forms of programmatic media buying.
• Experience managing Facebook campaigns across Africa and Middle East.
• Experience and/or certification in Google Analytics, Google AdSense or AdWords, Twitter Flight School, Facebook Blueprint, Social Bakers, or HootSuite is not required, but will be a big plus.
• Experience in using a variety of tools, channels and approaches to drive customer acquisition
• Demonstrated ability to execute performance driven digital media campaigns.
• Knowledge of the general activation capabilities of all available digital media tactics across Africa and Middle East
• Strong computer skills including Excel, Access, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Self-directed, proactive, and capable of creating solutions and resolving issues.
• Experience of PPC campaign management.
• Good understanding of marketing and advertising principles

Personal Skills/Attributes

• Ability to set and manage priorities judiciously
• Passion for marketing acquisition principles
• Excellent written and oral communication skills (both French and English will be an advantage)
• Excellent interpersonal and team skills
• Ability to articulate ideas to both editorial and sales audiences
• Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
• Exceptional time and project management and the ability to juggle long and short-term deadlines in a dynamic working environment.
• Ability to manage stakeholders effectively.
• Keen awareness of commercial imperatives, in particular driving transactional revenue.
• Confident and ambitious with a can-do attitude.
• Good planning and time management skills.
• Passionate advocate of music streaming  products.

Posted on 11 Jun 15:47