Communications Officer at Columba Leadership Trust 80 views0 applications

Columba Leadership is a nonprofit organisation that activates youth enterprise and employment by helping young people transcend their personal circumstances and offers meaningful social impact to all investors.

Columba Leadership seeks to appoint a Communications Officer, based in Johannesburg.

Responsibilities:

Internal and External Communications

• Support all internal and external communications in close consultation with the relevant leaders, including the CEO, Head of Investor Relations and HR Manager
• Write various communications, including through content based on interviews, briefings, research and observations / insights
• Produce the annual review and investor event presentations
• Internal and external newsletters
• Visual communications, especially including short videos
• Conceptualise, writing and designing posters (internal) and advertisements (external)
• Manage promotional / informative / information sharing events (internal and external)

Investor Relations

• Scheduling investor engagements, including for renewal proposals
• Preparing ‘standard’ marketing collateral for key stakeholder groups, and assisting with tailoring these for specific target audiences
• Occasional investor presentation and debriefs
• Arrange new investor events e.g. Breakfast meetings
• Edit investor reports
• Prepare basic proposal components with associated presentations using best in class tools; 30 second, 10, 20 & 40 minute pitches
• Edit proposals (including advising on the look-and-feel)

Media relations

• Manage relationship with media advisors e.g. TBWA
• Engage with media (including Sunday Times, Carte Blanche, etc.)
• Prepare media releases

Website

• Work with the relevant stakeholder groups and responsible line managers / teams, keeping the website content topical and up-to-date
• Track and meaningfully respond to analytics relating to the effectiveness of the website

Digital marketing

• Develop innovative strategies for Facebook (and other) engagement of young people
• Social Media community management, especially Facebook engagement
• Considering and using, as appropriate, other available channels (e.g., WhatsApp)

External recognition

• Discover and submit awards proposals
• Tracking strategic networking opportunities and facilitating relevant engagements

Developing marketing and communications collateral

• Accumulate and safekeep all important reference materials, testimonials and the like
• Keep up to date with latest research in youth leadership, employment, etc.
• Document employment, enterprise case studies
• Discovery of PR assets in schools and in exit interviews and trapping these
• Discovery of key local leadership and international players in youth leadership, employment
• Preparation of thought leadership pieces
• Draft learning briefs
• Build a database of powerful visual communications (photographs) describing Columba Leadership, including taking photographs and videography

Requirements:

• National Senior Certificate (Matric) with a Bachelor’s Pass
• A tertiary qualification in Communications will be a distinct advantage
• At least two years of work experience in communications, with specific NGO experience being a distinct advantage

To apply, submit a detailed CV to [email protected] quoting the position in the subject line.