Specialist (Marketing) - Communications
Cape Town, South Africa

ACR_JB897

Description
Writing and editing content for existing and potential clients across various media, including our quarterly magazine, website, brochures, presentations and for public relations purposes.

Main responsibilities
Draft original content for articles, our website, brochures, presentations

Edit content produced by other people in the business, including articles and presentations
Come up with new content ideas and finding innovative ways to reuse existing content

Maintain and manage existing content, e.g. brochures, presentations, web content, forms

Assist in ensuring that appropriate and correct information is effectively communicated

Assist with media queries

Qualifications
Tertiary qualification e.g. BA (Marketing, Journalism, PR), B.Com (Marketing, Economics, Finance), B.Bus.Sc (Marketing, Economics, Finance)

Financial media or financial services experience is an advantage

Skills/Competencies and experience
Excellent writing skills and a passion for writing – must have writing experience and want a writing career

Excellent attention to detail – editing experience an advantage

Good interpersonal skills and the ability to engage with senior stakeholders
Good organisational and time management skills

Creative thinker and good listener: ability to come up with ideas

Ability to research, collate and present information in a meaningful manner

Ability to operate independently as well as within a team

Proactive approach and thought leadership ability

Interest in investing as a subject matter essential

Trainee Developer (Institutional IT Operations)
Cape Town, South Africa

ACR_JB895

Description
Support and maintain the Institutional applications within the company.
Working in the IT Operations team for a minimum period of time with the opportunity for growth into other areas of IT.

Main responsibilities
Application support to business users
Analyse and co-ordinate the resolution of issues in the institutional asset management applications
Automation of anything that is repetitive to save time / effort
Environment maintenance and support to development teams
Troubleshooting of application problems and performance bottlenecks
Fix bugs where appropriate (applications include the following technologies C#, MSSQL, Crystal)
Database maintenance
Software deployment using automated software tools and the release management process
Enhancement of the deployment tools (built in C# and SQL)
Monitoring of Institutional batch job processes
Regular updating of documentation
Successful trainees will be phased into a full time C# development role

Qualifications
Degree in commerce, sciences or engineering faculty with exceptional results

Skills/Competencies and experience
Great communication and overall people skills
Fast learner
Ability to work effectively as part of a team
Excellent time management skills
Be prepared to work after hours if and when necessary
Exceptional attention to detail
Exceptional quality of work
Accuracy
Ability to function well under pressure
Self motivation
Results orientated
Ability to accept responsibility for all tasks done
Flexible, energetic, trustworthy, organised, self disciplined

Please motivate why you are the best person for the job. i.e Provide a one page letter of motivation to support your application for this role

Deadline for applications
31 August 2014