Public Relations Manager (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: R604494 – R604495 per year negotiable Cost to company 
Location: Cape Town, Parow
Education level: Degree
Job policy: Employment Equity position
Type: Permanent
Reference: #R225A
Company: South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)

The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) strives to improve the nation’s health and quality of life by funding and conducting relevant and leading health research. It further aims to promote equity, career development and progression. The organisation prides itself on three core values: being pioneering, striving for excellence and working collaboratively.

The South African Medical Research Council seeks to appoint an experienced and qualified public relations manager as part of the corporate and marketing communications team. The role would suit a driven professional, a multitasker with an eye for detail who can navigate media, corporate communications, and public outreach activities.

About the role:

Together with the marketing team, you will implement the communication and public outreach plan, enhance PR/media exposure while ensuring effective messaging for the brand; write and edit key publications such as the annual report and promote the organisation through online and offline channels.

Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate, collaborate, or coordinate public outreach activities
  • Play key role in public outreach activities
  • Identify public outreach touchpoints and get buy-in from internal stakeholders for participation
  • Involvement in research translation activities
  • Address media queries while working closely with the media officer
  • Communications planning and coordination for stakeholder engagements such as conferences and exhibitions
  • Write or edit print and digital content

Broad functional areas:

  • Public relations management
  • Organisational change navigation and communications coordination
  • Multimedia project management and design

Core requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in public relations, journalism, English, communications, or marketing
  • At least four years of experience in the field
  • Valid drivers licence

Added advantages:

  • Postgraduate qualification in relevant field
  • Experience in a research or academic environment
  • Ability to work collaboratively and productively

Please note a portfolio of evidence will be required as part of the recruitment process.

A salary in the region of R604,495 per annum, cost-to-company, will be negotiated in consideration of experience and qualifications. 

Please go to the following Web Site to complete an online application https://goo.gl/forms/SF0UxO1oPywId7jS2 

Closing date: 18 November 2018

Please quote the reference number (R225A) in all communications. Please be advised that your submission will not be considered should your application not be accompanied by the required information and documentation.
The SAMRC retains the right not to make an appointment. In accordance with the SAMRC’s Employment Equity Plan, preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates from the designated groups. For this reason, we require race, gender and disability status to be specified. Disabled persons are encouraged to apply.

Posted on 05 Nov 09:36

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Senior SEO/PPC Manager (Johannesburg)

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Location: Johannesburg, Northriding
Education level: Degree
Job level: Management Snr
Own transport required: Yes
Job policy: Employment Equity position
Type: Permanent
Company: Fast Forward Marketing

We are seeking a candidate with an in-depth knowledge of SEO and PPC and be willing to match your expertise with Fast Forward’s proven processes and ‘best in the market’ philosophy. You should have more than five years’ solid knowledge and experience in SEO, PPC, and analytics.

Obviously, your primary focus will be to increase our client’s website rankings for relevant keywords while driving traffic and leads/conversions.

You should attain these attributes:

  • Self-motivated with a positive attitude
  • A self-starter, detail-oriented, and passionate
  • A team player and love to collaborate with others
  • Taking pride in your work and keep up to date on the latest trends
  • Having an informed opinion and enjoy being part of the creative and strategic process
  • Organised and efficient
  • Meticulous attention to detail
  • Well spoken, with excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities:

  • Ability to think creatively, strategically and identify and resolve problems
  • Analyse, develop and execute multiple client SEO and or PPC strategies and tactics
  • Manage workflow process of SEO/PPC deliverables
  • Manage a SEO hungry team
  • Ability to provide training and support to team members
  • Comprehensive keyword research
  • Provide on-page optimisation direction to developers and team members
  • Build link acquisition strategy
  • Perform technical and competitive analyses
  • Reporting on all aspects of Search
  • Client presentation of deliverables
  • Manage client expectations by educating them on best practices and overall education of SEO/PPC
  • Ability to work across multiple industries and sectors
  • Ability to manage and communicate SEO and PPC as a business strategy
  • Effectively understand and create landing pages based on user pain points

Requirements:

  • Five+ years of SEO and PPC with agency experience working with large brands/sites
  • On and off-page SEO experience (strategy and execution)
  • Link acquisition, implications of social media on rankings
  • Experience with keyword research/data mining tools and competitive analysis
  • Knowledge of Content Management Systems and their impact on search (WordPress, Joomla, etc.)
  • HTML Skills and experience working with and optimising SEO within CMS Systems (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc) as well as custom-build websites.
  • Solid understanding of redirects, user-agent detect scripting, rel=”canonical” tags, XML sitemap feeds and other related technical tactics
  • Extensive White hat link optimisation/acquisition experience
  • Extensive Experience with Google Keyword Tool, Google Placement Planner and Google Trends
  • Understanding of analytics software (Moz, Hot Jar, SEM Rush, Hubspot, Google Analytics, SEO Powersuite, Adobe Analytics)
  • Content strategy as it relates to search and the consumer decision process
  • Excellent knowledge of search engine criteria/algorithm updates (Panda, Penguin)
  • Either be… or be willing to become…Google Certified
  • Experience with A/B and multivariate testing

Salary: competitive salary – based on experience

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This Yoga Flow Will Calm Holiday Stress and Keep you Centered

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From increased social commitments to the start of gift shopping, this time of year can really cause anxiety levels to skyrocket. But it doesn’t have to! By consciously scheduling in moments to rest, recharge, and rejuvenate, you can keep your chill and genuinely appreciate all the joy this season has to offer. One way to do just that? With our easy to-follow yoga routine. “This is the perfect flow to open your heart and find your center,” says Chelsea Jackson Roberts, PhD, a certified yoga instructor and founder of the Yoga, Literature, and Art Camp for Teen Girls at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, who created the following series exclusively for Health. Now go ahead and get your namaste on.

RELATED: 9 Easy Yoga Poses to Help You Survive Work, Stress and Travel

Mountain Pose

Stand tall with shoulders down and back, and palms together at heart’s center. Ground down into all four corners of feet and, with eyes closed, inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth.

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Upward Salute

Inhale and bring arms up while reaching through fingertips (A). Exhale and extend arms around back of body while outwardly rotating shoulders to stretch and open your heart. Interlock fingers behind lower back; inhale while lifting heart’s center and pressing knuckles toward the ground (B).

RELATED: 3 Yoga Lengthening Poses You Might Be Doing Wrong and How to Fix Them

Forward Fold with Clasped Hands

Keeping hands behind you and fingers interlaced, exhale as you bow forward. Bending knees slightly, allow belly to be supported by quads while actively pressing all four corners of feet into the ground.

RELATED: Take 10 Minutes to Try This Beginner Yoga Routine

Chair Pose

On your next inhale, release your hands, sweeping them up as you lower hips back and down. Allow arms to lift; power up the quads and press through all four corners of feet. Draw shoulder blades into your upper back as you reach elbows toward ears. Draw tailbone down to the floor, keeping your lower back nice and long.

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Forward Fold

Exhale, bowing forward with hands down. Release quads, allowing a gentle stretch in your hamstrings.

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Root to Rise

On your next inhale, ground down into feet. Make your way back into Upward Salute with arms extended up as you reach through fingertips. Standing tall, draw hands back to heart’s center, and bring your shoulders down and back.

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Try this post-flow:

Sitali Breath

This breathing pattern is known to ease anxiety. Close your eyes and begin to bring awareness to how you are breathing. Relax your jaw and curl your tongue like a taco (no worries if your tongue won’t cooperate—just leave it!). Inhale one long breath like your are inhaling through a straw. On the exhale, allow the breath to travel out through the nose with ease. Continue this pattern for at least 10 rounds.

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News24.com | Gigaba on sex tape: ‘My wife and I have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of’

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Embattled Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Sunday he would meet President Cyril Ramaphosa soon amid mounting pressure for him to resign after Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane said he lied under oath and following the leaking of a private sex video.

“I’m not going to resign,” Gigaba told the privately owned eNCA television channel, but added “I will obviously be guided” by the President Cyril Ramaphosa and the African National Congress.

READ: Malusi Gigaba’s week from hell

Mkhwebane on Tuesday said the minister had lied in court while testifying last year in a case filed by a company controlled by the wealthy Oppenheimer family.

The court case hinged on whether Gigaba had approved a private terminal at Johannesburg airport for the Oppenheimers.

In an unrelated case, Gigaba, 47, last Sunday said on twitter he had been the target of extortion attempts by an opposition politician after a sex video emerged following what he described as theft by hacking.

The defiant Gigaba said he was not just simply trying to hang on to his job.

“It’s about fighting to protect my integrity and to protect my image and to ensure that I do not become a victim of devious political campaigns. I will not be trampled upon,” said the minister.

He said he would soon meet Ramaphosa “to put my side of the story”.

Speaking to public broadcaster SABC, Gigaba added that the leaking of the video had been politically motivated.

“We (Gigaba and his wife) have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of,” he said.

“I don’t have a problem…. It was intended to embarrass me, to decapacitate me politically, to humiliate me and my family publicly, to embarrass the African National Congress,” he said.

Mkhwebane recommended that Ramaphosa take disciplinary action against the minister for “telling an untruth under oath and before a court of law”.

Gigaba served as finance minister for a year under Jacob Zuma, who was ousted as president in February over corruption. When Ramaphosa succeeded Zuma, he moved him to the home affairs ministry in February 2018.

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News24.com | ANC Western Cape lambasts education dept over racism allegations against top school

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The ANC of the Western Cape blasted the Western Cape Department of Education (WCED) following racism allegations aimed at Rustenburg Girls’ Juniour School after the retrenchment of a black teacher.

This followed a report by the Mail & Guardian on Friday that the teacher, Nozipho Mthembu, who was also a former pupil at the top school, had resigned after a fraught period in which her performance was questioned.

The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) was involved, the report said. The teacher said she did not experience racism, but had felt undermined and unsupported.

“The ANC is deeply concerned with the manner in which the young teacher was treated at the school and was forced to resign,” ANC Western Cape education spokesperson Theo Olivier said.

“It is also shocking that SGBs [school governing bodies] and principals at former Model C schools have become a law unto themselves and some oppose the country’s transformation agenda. This is what gives rise to the attitude of learners there that see black teachers as care takers and givers, but not real teachers.”

READ: Top Cape Town girls’ school caught in transformation row

Olivier claims that education MEC Debbie Schafer and the WCED failed to act despite being aware of the situation.

“This shows that for as long as Schäfer remains in office, racism in Western Cape schools will continue unabated, as she appears to be opposed to transformation,” he added.

Schafer fired back by saying that Olivier was not acquainted with the full facts surrounding Mthembu’s resignation.

“As usual, their point of departure is that if a person of colour is dismissed, it must be racism,” she said in a statement.  

“He has clearly made no attempt to find out the facts in this matter, and whether there were good reasons for Ms Mthembu’s resignation.”

Schafer also claims that the department was not aware of allegations of racism involving Mthembu.

“At the time we were also not aware of allegations of racism involving this Educator. The Educator was employed by the School Governing Body and not the WCED,” she clarified.

“The Department therefore was not aware of the processes relating to the teacher’s appointment and subsequent resignation.”

She conceded that general issues regarding the lack of transformation at the school have been raised and said that the Head of Department is having discussions in order to resolve them.

“We are committed to building an inclusive society for all, and quality education for every child in every classroom in every school in the province, and will continue to work towards this,” Schafer said.

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Sport24.co.za | Farrell off the hook after controversial hit

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London – Owen Farrell is available to lead England against world champions New Zealand next weekend after it was announced he would face no disciplinary action for a controversial tackle in the closing seconds of a tense 12-11 win over South Africa.

WATCH: Owen Farrell ‘tackle’ – fair or foul?

Farrell had kicked an England side missing several senior players into a one-point lead with his third successful penalty seven minutes from time at Twickenham on Saturday.

But there was drama right at the end when, with 80 minutes on the clock, referee Angus Gardner consulted the television match official to see if flyhalf Farrell had committed an illegal ‘no-arms’ tackle on Springbok replacement Andre Esterhuizen.

The Australian official could have awarded South Africa a penalty which, had it gone over, would have seen the visitors snatch victory in the opening match of their European tour.

But Gardner, despite World Rugby’s current crackdown on dangerous play, eventually decided against penalising Farrell’s challenge, even though it appeared the England co-captain was leading with his shoulder.

Citing commissioner Keith Brown had 24 hours from Saturday’s final whistle to decide if the challenge had warranted a red card, a move that would have led to a disciplinary hearing.

But a World Rugby spokesperson told AFP via telephone on Sunday that England co-captain Farrell would not face disciplinary action.

Most pundits agreed that Farrell’s challenge was a yellow-card offence at worst, although plenty of observers felt Gardner should have awarded the Springboks a penalty at the very least.

“It’s hard to keep your arms round when someone’s running that hard but thankfully there was a bit of common sense,” Farrell told Sky Sports soon after full-time on Saturday.

Meanwhile England coach Eddie Jones was in sarcastic mood when asked during his post-match press conference about the possibility of being without Farrell for the November 10 clash against the All Blacks at Twickenham.

“You can get cited for something you did at a party when you were 15, anything could happen,” he said.

“I’ve got no idea what can happen,” added the Australian ahead of what will be England’s first match against New Zealand in four years.

Frustrated Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus was left to bemoan Farrell’s challenge, saying acidly: “If it was all legal – and I didn’t have a good look at the replay – we should start tackling like that.”

Health24.com | Here’s why you aren’t always ready to go for round 2

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Is there anything more frustrating than having great sex and wanting to go for another round, but not being physically able to? There’s actually a scientific term for this: The refractory period.

“A refractory period is the time after a man ejaculates when he is no longer able to have an erection,” Emily Morse, sexologist and host of the Sex With Emily podcast, tells MensHealth.com.

While there’s not much you can do to eliminate your refractory period altogether (hey, you can’t fight science), there are things you can do to make your recovery time shorter. Here’s everything you need to know about refractory periods, from why they occur in the first place, to how you can try to shorten yours.

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Why do guys have refractory periods?

It all has to do with the changes in your body that occur after you have an orgasm. Post-ejaculation, “your penis becomes flaccid from neural signals telling your body to relax,” explains Dr Jamin Brahmbhatt, urologist at Orlando Health and Assistant Professor at UCF College of Medicine. “Dopamine and testosterone levels drop, and prolactin [a hormone produced by your pituitary gland] rises.”

Elevated prolactin levels post-ejaculation could play a role in your inability to get it up again. “Increased prolactin and subsequent lower testosterone is like a double whammy affecting your sex,” says Dr Brahmbhatt.

By contrast, women generally have a much shorter refractory period – or even none at all. “Women are designed to be multi-orgasmic, which means they can have one after another after another,” Morse says.

But just because they can doesn’t necessarily mean they want to: Your partner may be ultra-sensitive post-orgasm, which might make her wary of further stimulation. You should always check in and make sure your partner is up for round two before trying anything further.

How long does a refractory period generally last?

Refractory periods are different for every guy. “Some men can be ready in a half hour or less, and others may take hours or even a full day,” says Morse.

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You may have noticed that the length of your refractory period changes at different points in your life. “Recovery depends on age, how much arousal you get in between sessions, hormones, and your overall health,” Dr Brahmbhatt says. “Studies have found teenagers can take minutes to recover, while men in their 30 and 40s can take 30 to 60 minutes or longer. There is no hard and fast rule on how quickly you will recover.”

Can you do anything to shorten your refractory period?

While it’s often a good idea to let your body rest, if you really want to be able to go again ASAP, there are a few things you can do to try and shorten your refractory period.

“Increasing arousal is the fastest way for guys to get back into the game,” Morse says. “This could be doing something different, like trying out a toy or talking dirty (or dirtier than usual). Even small changes can be just the novelty and excitement needed to rev up the engines for round two.”

Getting into shape can also help to reduce your refractory period. “The fitter you are, the better your hormones will be able to regulate themselves,” says Dr Brahmbhatt.

Read more: 8 ways to be a gentleman after sex

If you’re looking for external help, there are supplements that claim to be able to get you harder, faster – but you should be extremely wary of them, says Dr Brahmbhatt. “There is no hard science backing up the proposed claims. Plus, supplements are not FDA-regulated so what you think you are taking, may not be what you are taking.” Instead, you can try manual penile pumps or cock rings to help speed up the process.

And remember that if your partner wants to go again ASAP, you can always pass the time by getting her off again, which should help to get you in the mood for round two.

“Remember that guys don’t need an erection to give pleasure to their partners,” Morse says. “Just because he’s not ready to go again, doesn’t mean a female partner isn’t ready for more. As long as he has his hands and fingers, he’s more than equipped to keep the party going.”

Read more: Game night with a twist: 6 adult games to spice up your sex life

This article was originally published onwww.menshealth.com

Image credit: iStock 

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