Career Vacancies & Business Opportunities

Britefire Cape Town is currently looking for a:

Social Media Marketer

We would like to meet you if you are a professional person who enjoys challenges, thrives in a changing world, relishes learning and is a self-starter.

• Develop and implement comprehensive social media strategies and tactics to achieve specific marketing goals (internal and client)
• Lead the development of organisation-wide social media management standards, policies and rules of engagement for social media
• Define key performance indicators and implement measurement, analytics, and reporting methods to track success
• Mentor and provide training to communication and management professionals in client and partner companies on best practices for creating, managing, monitoring, and developing socially networked marketing
• Identify relevant ways to integrate social media into business strategies and marketing campaigns
• Build and develop relevant socially networked communities 
• Develop and implement strategies for growing engagement and leveraging it to achieve marketing goals
• Represent brands in relevant social media, grow conversation and define and implement targeted campaigns
• Apply market research and development methods to learn and understand emerging trends and technologies and to communicate this knowledge clearly and concisely

NOTE TO ALL APPLICANTS:
We look forward to hearing from you and receiving your applications. We ask all applicants to answer the below questions when submitting your application. Applications that do not answer these questions will not be considered. Britefire may also require short listed candidates to do a practical exercise as proof of competence. We thank you for the time you take to answer the below questions. 

QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED AS PART OF YOUR APPLICATION:

1. What professional experience have you had in using social media, and how did you measure your success?
2. What challenges have you faced when introducing social media in your work, and how did you overcome them?
3. You have one day and R10,000 to create an initial presence for a health and beauty brand on the web. Specifically what would you do?
4. What in your view are the biggest mistakes made by brands in their use of social media?
5. What are the differences between the context for traditional web channels and the context for social media?
6. Explain the following concepts: iFrames, The Social Graph, Social Stories and The Edgerank algorithm
7. Please provide as many of the below as possible

• the URL of a blog you write
• your Twitter handle
• your LinkedIn profile
• links to Facebook pages you have created, support
• any other social media contact points you think are relevant

Company Description

At Britefire we provide strategy consulting, e-marketing implementation and business-based training services in all key dimensions of marketing - online and offline. We love what we do and we never settle for second best!

Requirements

• Bachelor degree and three to five year's experience in advertising, communications, marketing, or public relations
• Knowledge of graphic design principles and basic competence with Photoshop
• Technical experience, with basic HTML and good understanding of HTML, CSS and iFrames
• Demonstrated experience and a passion for all major social media platforms and tools 
• Experience with common online management, monitoring and measurement platforms 
• Experience with defining and implementing content strategies 
• Ability to act as a brand champion
• Confidence with using data
• Experience using: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook 2007 or 2010, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, MS Project
• Knowledge of usability best practices

Personal Skills/Attributes

• Excellent written, verbal and conversational skills
• Ability to work as a member of a team and independently
• Exceptional leadership capabilities and strong interpersonal skills
• Presentation skills
• Ability to work with clients, customer focused and ability to manage client expectations
• Ability to work effectively under deadlines and juggle multiple projects 
• Ability to work from home

Details

Remuneration: Based on the experience of individual candidate
Province: Western Cape
Education level: Degree
Own transport required: Yes
City: Cape Town
Type: Permanent 
Job level: Mid

Contact
Karen Parkin
Britefire
+27 21 790 0303
karen.parkin@britefire.com

South Africa, rest of Africa

Employees: we are looking for creative, dynamic individuals to join our team who can take on the job of marketing, selling, and administering the business. Initially, these may be half-day contract positions that will become full time staff positions in the future. We are a Cape Town based business, but we like to operate virtually. Other than the administrative assistant, who will have to be able to commute to the Hout Bay area, you will typically work from home. (See below for list of currently open positions)

Contractors: we are interested in contracting only the best independent trainers and consultants who are already experienced in any of the fields in which we operate: e-business, e-marketing, project management, corporate learning, sales and executive professional development. We will be needing people who we can train to run our courses flawlessly, and who can commit a certain number of active training or consulting days every month to Britefire. We particularly want to hear from experienced consultants based in South African regions other than Cape Town, Johannesburg or Durban, or in other parts of Africa (especially SADC), who can help us make our services accessible to a wider market at viable prices and in local languages.

World-wide

Contractors and business partners: In 2010 we will be expanding Britefire's services further into Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australasia, and Latin America. We would like to make contact with potential independent contract trainers and consultants, as well as potential corporate business partners who are experienced in any of the fields in which we operate: e-business, e-marketing, project management, corporate learning, sales and executive professional development. We particularly want to hear from experienced consultants based in Argentina, Brazil, China and India who can help us take our services out to a wider market.

If you are interested in exploring contract or partnership opportunities, please email us to let us know more about you. Thank you!