Media Officer - Cape Town Verfied Gold Badge

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 27-09-2018 2:20:16 PM
25-10-2018 2:20:16 PM
Position: Media Officer
Salary: R25 000 depending on experience
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Cape Town
Start Date: Immediately
Closing Date: 5 October 2018

Fetola is looking for an experienced Media Officer to join our team. You’ll be responsible for writing engaging, thought-provoking content about a wide range of business topics. In addition, you’ll deliver professional media and PR for the company.

Fetola is an exciting, innovative company with a team-based culture and a passion to make a difference. Our purpose is simple: we help people to grow the economy and create jobs, by building businesses that last. We attract and nurture the highest quality staff whose personal vision is to excel as an individual while actively contributing to the building of a better future for the country.


Experience and Training

• Degree - BA Communications, BA Writing, BA English, or recognition of prior learning, writing competency and experience.

Core Competencies

• A good media network and a working relationship with journalists.
• Exceptional writing skills.
• Cares about punctuation and adept with an Oxford comma.
• Leadership and motivational skills.
• Creativity combined with great attention to detail.
• Proactive problem solving.
• Self-reliant and able to complete tasks.
• Willing contribute ideas that could improve our collective performance

Key Tasks:

Duties included but not limited to:

1. Media and PR
• Research and write articles/content for the company’s publication, The Catalyst, strategic partnership media and thought leadership.
• Source and secure media & PR opportunities for the company.
• Maintaining good relationships with journalists.

2. Communications (Internal)

• Provide exceptional standard of media support (e.g. sub-editing/proofreading, writing reports).
• Prepare and co-ordinate a weekly stakeholder emailer, as well as the monthly Catalyst emailer and other ad-hoc emailers (Sendgrid).
• Website updates (WordPress & Squarespace).
• Google Analytics website reporting.
• Use Fetola narrative consistently.
• Secure approval for all external facing communications before disseminating.
• Follow/establish a house style guide.

Recruiter: Fetola Mmoho