Ogilvy PR is offering an amazing opportunity for an experienced account director who has experience working for a PR agency. This is to work on one of South Africa’s most loved brands and is an exciting new initiative that this agency has embarked on.
An account director should be an experienced, broadly capable project and account manager who handles a wide range of assignments, projects and/or clients with a high degree of success and independence. She/he has strong client relationships and is considered a potential company leader.
They are able to manage a piece of a large account or a few smaller ones, with little top cover from their business director, director and/or managing director, as well as the staff assigned to the business. They should have strong project management, budgeting, counselling, programme, people management and business development skills with increased emphasis and demonstrated success in building business and people. They have the confidence and support of client contacts and strong relationships with the client organisation. An account director demonstrates the ability and wherewithal to deliver on our vision, performance requirements and growth projections. An Account Director has strong relationships with the client and ensures to have the confidence of the client.
Requirements
Minimum of two years of experience in a PR agency.
Experience in consumer PR(IT, FMCG ideal).
Must be a driver personality and be able to stand up to difficult clients.
Punctuality for meetings both internally and externally.
Understands business trends in the industries to which they consult.
Responsible for the overall development of strategies and programmes based on team input.
Directs the development for a range of materials developed by account team including client memos, press releases, speeches, articles, brochures, presentation and collateral materials.
Efficiently and effectively plans and manages large-scale events.
Develops and guides media relations strategy.
Applies specialised industry expertise to client work.
Has established a circle of industry editorial, the investment community, professional and/or third-party group contacts.
Has strong presentation skills and demonstrates the ability to play a leadership role in a wide range of presentation settings
Excellent writing skills
Anticipates and develops solutions to client needs and problems.
Provides strong leadership in building effective, productive account teams.
Has intimate knowledge of an integration process and has worked on fully integrated campaigns in the past. Compiles and creates a comprehensive PR plan and links into a 360 campaign.
In alignment with our transformation strategy and client needs, preference will be given to EE candidates.
The talent team at Ogilvy appreciates your interest in the agency and thanks to you for your application. However, due to high volumes of applications received we will only be able to contact candidates that have met the recruitment criteria. If you have not heard from the Talent Team within six weeks of application please note that you were not shortlisted for this particular role.
Pretoria, 30 September 2020 – The South African Revenue Service (SARS) today releases trade statistics for August 2020 recording a trade surplus of R38.87 billion. These statistics include trade data with Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN). The year-to-date (01 January to 31 August 2020) trade surplus of R134.05 billion is an improvement from the R4.14 billion deficit for the comparable period in 2019. Exports increased by 8.8% year-on-year whilst imports declined by 20.7% over the same period.
The R38.87 billion trade surplus for August 2020 is attributable to exports of R130.22 billion and imports of R91.35 billion.
Qualified Plumber in Grahamstown | Other Building/Construction/Mining | Job Mail | 4983030
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Requirements:
– Trade tested qualified plumber
– Engineering qualification (minimum Nated N2) – 3 + years’ post Trade Test experience in Solar Geyser installation, plumbing and pipe connections
– Ability to conduct plumbing installations, repairs and maintenance
– Good Technical Reporting skills
– Must be technically inclined as there are devices to be used for reporting
– Valid Driver’s Licence
Personal Attributes:
– Adapting and responding to change
– Team player, displaying sound characteristics within organization during interaction with subordinates, colleagues and other departments
– Effective good communication skills
– Results orientation to achieve personal and work goals
– Deliver results as per set targets in meeting stakeholder expectations
– Willing to relocate temporarily
Cape Union Mart International (Pty) Ltd has been equipping South African adventurers since 1933, and is South Africa’s favourite outdoor adventure store. Stocking everything one needs for outdoor pursuits – including hiking, camping, trail running, mountain biking, snow sports, travel and more – Cape Union Mart is an essential first step in every adventure. Cape Union Mart has stores across South Africa, and in Namibia and Botswana.
MVC Marketing is seeking vibrant and hardworking individuals to join our dynamic team as Field Account Manager in the Witbank Area. Applicants must be able to work independently and integrate well into a team.
Job description:
Call on a database of stores in the area
Managing allocated store database in the area
Merchandise products in-store
Data collection
Reporting on store related issues
Place point of sale displays in stores
Manage product displays as per the seasonal cycles
Interact regularly with all store staffs to keep them informed about upcoming product promotions
Build and maintain relationship with store managers and floor salesmen in the store
Conduct in store training and complete system reporting
Travelling/Store Visits daily
A field account manager is required to be well-groomed and professional always. Applicants are required to provide themselves with their own transport and own vehicle insurance when required to travel.
Area allocation:
Monsterlus
Groblersdal
Middleburg
Dennilton
Delmas
Mhluzi
Duration: Three months
Salary package:
Basic: R5,500
KPI: R2,000
Travel Allowance: R2,000
Company Insurance Benefit: R950
CTC: R10,450
Requirements:
Complete matric
Valid driver’s licence
Own reliable vehicle
AT least one certificate in marketing/sales or related industry.
Cellular/network knowledge and experience
At least one-year experience in merchandising and sales
Good communication skills and fluency in English.
Good computer literacy, knowledge and experience in Microsoft Office packages
SME South Africa is looking for a content marketer to manage the content marketing strategy & execution of our soon to be launched on-demand coaching App for Startups. You will be required to write SEO based blog posts, guides, email campaigns, social media, and marketing copy.
To thrive in this role, you should be comfortable working in a startup environment where priorities and requirements change frequently. Having a deep understanding of the lead generation strategies, social media, and SEO will help you succeed and accelerate your impact to our business growth.
Responsibilities
Write rich, SEO optimised content that attracts leads to our funnels. Including blog posts, landing pages, social media posts, video scripts, and emails.
Create, maintain, and execute content calendar for the blog, social media, and email
Own email marketing by working to: Build email lists and campaigns, execute email lead gen tactics, grow email subscriptions, behavioral segmentation, and email templates.
Optimize SEO content by working on technical SEO issues, internal links, on-page optimization, backlinks, and keyword research.
Measure and report weekly on campaign goals and recommend optimization strategies to improve campaign performance.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communication, journalism, or related field.
A minimum of three years of direct experience in content marketing
Experience working for an e-commerce/marketplace/media or tech startup.
Exceptional writing and editing skills.
Experience working with email marketing platforms and email automation tools.
Experience with social media publishing tools, social listening, and organic social metrics.
In-depth knowledge of SEO, experience working on Google Search Console, Google Analytics, and SEO tools such as Moz.
Data-driven marketer with the ability to A/B test and build processes to scale content creation and reach more target personas.
SEO and Google Analytics Certification is a plus
When applying for the position, please send through your CV, relevant references, links to your published works, and a cover letter which explains why you’re the best fit for SME South Africa. If we like your CV, we will ask you to complete a writing and grammar test.
This German automotive giant is on the hunt for an exceptional senior Java developer/AWS cloud engineer to join their existing team of cloud specialists in developing new digital charging services, to take them into the future.
We need someone hungry and ambitious who is keen to expand their skillset in a dynamic and efficient environment that gives you the freedom to rotate between the office and home.
Apply today and don’t miss out on your dream job.
Reference number for this position is DM49285 which is a contract position based in Midrand offering a contract rate of up to R950 per hour 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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Relevant tertiary qualification in engineering or computer science
Eight+ years’ experience
Expert/chief expert
JAVA
Microservices Architectures
Cloud Architectures
Container Architectures
Docker
Microsoft Azure
Container Orchestration Platforms
Preferably Azure Kubernetes Services
Front-end and back-end
JavaScript
HTML 5
CSS
Git
Responsibilities:
If you are a passionate Java developer comfortable with both front -end and back-end development, full of energy and ambition, a great communicator and team player, this is the right position for you
Develop and operate production-ready business applications
Liaise with customers, team members and external vendors
Deploy applications in AWS (via Jenkins and with scripting and automation)
Monitoring and operation of applications within AWS Cloudwatch
Applying cloud-security patterns and concepts to the solutions and deployments
Experience with testing tools like Karma, Jasmine, Postman, Newman, Cypress, Selenium, Junit, Robot, Jest
An international retailer requires the services of a freelance web designer/developer to assist in the development and launch of a new sub brand’s website.
Platform: Shopify
Timeframe: immediate, with long term engagement envisaged
Required work: custom design/tweaking of various webpages and elements
Applicant must be both well organised and flexible, as the expansion of the brand will depend on a reactive and nimble approach during the first few months. Being solution-driven will be key.
As the business expands the requirements for this role is sure to increase.
Please make contact to discuss any and all details.
Diabetes has been reported to be a risk factor for severe Covid-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. This is because high blood sugar levels can weaken the immune system, making it harder for diabetic people to fight off infections such as Covid-19.
During a Covid-19 special session at the online Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), a new review of the evidence on the devastating impact of Covid-19 on people who have diabetes was presented by Professor Juliana Chan from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Prince of Wales Hospital, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, China, according to EurekAlert.
“Major risk factors for mortality include advanced age and chronic conditions, notably obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart and kidney disease as well as social deprivation, minority ethnic groups and those with poor access to care,” said Chan, explaining that these common coexisting conditions highlight the complexity of Covid-19.
A recent report (from The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology), based on a UK population-based survey of more than 60 million people registered with the primary care system, showed that 0.4% had type 1 diabetes, and 4.6% had type 2 diabetes.
However, the report further highlighted that among the more than 24 000 Covid-19-related deaths, 30% occurred in diabetics.
After the researchers of the paper adjusted for several risk factors, including social deprivation, ethnicity and other chronic conditions, they found that people who had type 1 diabetes had an almost threefold (2.86) risk of death. In those who had type 2 diabetes, they found an almost two times (1.8) higher risk of death due to Covid-19, compared to those who did not have diabetes.
Chan also explained that the search term “Covid-19 and diabetes” yielded more than 1 800 publications in PubMed, a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the US National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.
When Covid-19 started to spread, experts were not sure about the outcomes for pregnant women and infants.
A previous study discussed on Health24 advised that mothers who contracted Covid-19 should continue to breastfeed their infants as the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh the risk of Covid-19.
Now, a new study from researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, suggests that even when babies are born to mothers infected with SARS-Cov-2, they do well in the six to eight weeks after birth, and that there are few adverse effects. This was the case even though there were more neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admissions of mothers who had Covid-19 up to two weeks before delivery.
The study, a pre-publication accepted by Clinical Infectious Diseases, investigated 263 infants and found that adverse outcomes, whether they were preterm birth, NICU admission or prevalence of respiratory disease, did not differ between those born to mothers with the virus and those who tested negative.
In this research, 179 of the mothers tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and 83 tested negative.
Out of the 263 infants, 44 were admitted to NICU, but not for pneumonia or lower respiratory infection.
South Africa has a high level of environmental burden of disease, with 16% of all deaths estimated to be related to the state of the environment, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Tuesday, referring to a 2006 World Health Organisation (WHO) report.
“It is actually all linked, a healthier environment gives you a healthier population and everything has to be done to make sure that we keep improving the quality of our natural environment.
“The science of environmental health is based on the premise that the prevention is better than [the] cure as this profession is concerned, with the key environmental factors that are at the heart of the public health dynamics,” he explained during a webinar commemorating World Environmental Health Day.
During the virtual conference, Mkhize noted that the “fight for health for all will be won or lost in the public health space, therefore it is critical that as we pause to shine a spotlight on environmental health”.
He added: “The international federation for environmental health recognises the continuing threats of environmental risk factors to human health and the urgent need to adopt a preventative approach in improving the quality of the natural environment and reducing environmental disease impact on the earth, on the health of the population.”
President Cyril Ramaphosa said Africa needs financing of $100 billion for “fiscal space and liquidity” for the continent’s governments amid the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has been described as the worst shock to the global economy since World War II.
Ramaphosa addressed the UN’s high-level meeting on financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the era of Covid-19 and beyond on Tuesday via a video message.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres described breaching the millionth Covid-19 death as a “tragic milestone”.
“The economic and social consequences are as bad as we feared, and in some cases, worse. We are suffering the largest economic contraction since the Second World War,” he said.
“Unless we take action now, we face a global recession that could wipe out decades of development and put the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development completely out of reach.”
He said: “The economic and social consequences are as bad as we feared, and in some cases, worse. We are suffering the largest economic contraction since the Second World War.”
Up to 100 million additional doses of any eventual Covid-19 vaccines will be secured for delivery to poorer countries in 2021, health groups announced on Tuesday, as the virus showed no sign of receding after claiming more than one million lives around the world.
The announcement doubles the number of doses already secured from the Serum Institute of India by the Gavi vaccine alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, following an initial agreement in August.
The public-private health partnership stressed that the eventual total is “potentially several times” greater, and said the price would be capped at $3 per dose.
“No country, rich or poor, should be left at the back of the queue when it comes to Covid-19 vaccines; this collaboration brings us another step closer to achieving this goal,” Gavi chief Seth Berkley said in a statement.
As nine vaccine candidates are in last-stage trials, the World Health Organization is stepping up efforts to provide faster and cheaper testing to poorer countries.
The WHO said on Monday that around 120 million rapid tests for Covid-19 will be made available to low- and middle-income countries at $5 each under a $600 million scheme – as long as funding can be secured.
In April, children represented just 2.2% of coronavirus cases in the US. By mid-September, that proportion had risen “dramatically” to reach 10%, according to data released today by the American Academy of Paediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.
It’s unlikely the rise is due to increased testing since CDC data shows children have consistently made up 5% to 7% of all tests administered since April, the organisations report.
While 10% is still lower than the percentage of children in the population (about 20%), and children with Covid-19 tend to fare better than adults, AAP President Dr. Sally Goza said in a press release “the rising numbers concern us greatly, as the children’s cases reflect the increasing virus spread in our communities”.
For the study, which will be published in the December issue of Paediatrics but was pre-published online today, researchers looked at five months of reported Covid-19 cases using data from U.S. public health department websites.
In addition to finding that the cumulative total paediatric Covid-19 cases has grown from 2.2% to 10% since the beginning of the pandemic, they found the percentage has been rising on a week-to-week basis.
For instance, less than 3% of cases reported the week ending April 23 were paediatric, but in the eight weeks prior to September 10, that percentage ranged from 12%to 15.9% per week.
HEALTH TIPS (as recommended by the NICD and WHO)
• Maintain physical distancing – stay at least one metre away from somebody who is coughing or sneezing
• Practise frequent hand-washing, especially after direct contact with ill people or their environment
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth, as your hands touch many surfaces and could potentially transfer the virus
• Practise respiratory hygiene – cover your mouth with your bent elbow or tissue when you cough or sneeze. Remember to dispose the tissue immediately after use.
