Brand Content Manager (South Africa)
The Company
accelerate agency is a fast growing SaaS SEO agency. As we’re currently experiencing expedited growth, we’re now searching for an experienced Brand Content Manager to join our team.
Objectives of this Role
- Overseeing our company’s content strategy from ideation to distribution
- Driving content production that will attract and convert leads for our sales
- Managing a team of creatives and balancing administrative tasks alongside editorial duties
- Optimizing content for conversion, improving existing content, and filling content gaps
Responsibilities
- Working with the content writing, graphic design, web development, and social media teams to plan, create, and distribute content
- Developing a comprehensive content strategy across multiple platforms, including the company website, off-site and social media channels
- Creating and maintaining a streamlined content calendar that keeps the whole team on track
- Proofreading and editing submissions according to brand guidelines
- Reviewing analytics and search performance reports to assess the success of content marketing initiatives
- Performing regular content audits to ensure content is accurate, optimized, updated, and relevant to the target audience
- With our in-house SEO team, implement SEO best practices to ensure all content ranks well and demonstrates an understanding of its target audience
- Working with our outreach team to improve the website’s search engine ranking scores
- Brainstorming new content ideas alongside the larger creative and marketing team
Skills and Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of content management experience in an international setting
- Proven people management skills and experience
- Exceptional writing and editing skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- A knack for creativity
- Experience using popular content management systems and analytics tools (Ahrefs, WordPress, and Google Search Console are a few examples)
- A firm grasp of UX and on-page conversion rate optimisation
- Experienced with SEO best practices
- Confident working with a wide variety of stakeholders, both internal and external
- Can work and deliver to tight deadlines
- Possesses strong written and verbal English language communications skills
- Ability to express ideas and feedback accurately
Bonus Skills
- Knowledge of web design, including CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript
- Basic graphic design skills
- Project management tools (Asana)
Useful Information
- We offer a competitive salary, which will be transferred to the employee from our UK-based account as a gross amount. The employee will be responsible for any tax-related procedures in the country of residence. We kindly ask you to apply only if you are happy to work remotely as an independent contractor.
- Working hours: Mondays - Fridays, 8 hours 30 minutes per day inclusive of 30 mins break, with flexible start - that can be between 7:30 and 10:00 am, UK time zone.
- There will be additional benefits post a paid 3-month probationary period. Benefits include paid holidays and sick days, and others.