Opportunities

Overview

About the Opportunity

Closing date: 1st April
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
Location: Abuja

Job Summary:

Sahel Consulting and its partners have launched an online platform called Nourishingafrica.com that is the 'Home for 1 Million Agri-Food Entrepreneurs Transforming Africa’s Agricultural Landscape'. The mission of Nourishing Africa is to "attract, empower, equip, connect and celebrate over 1 Million dynamic and innovative young entrepreneurs who will drive the profitable and sustainable growth of the African agriculture and food landscape".

As such, this hub serves as a platform for these stakeholders to accelerate their work, connect with each other, and celebrate their successes on the continent. The portal includes information on funding, e-learning, data, African food and chefs, career opportunities, and other resources to develop one's career in the agri-food industry.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Develop and expand an efficient digital marketing strategy for the organization.
• Design, publish and manage promotions and campaigns.
• Develop and expand an online community for the organization.
• Take full responsibility for the organization’s social media platforms, developing, generating and posting relevant quality content (images, videos, text), managing hits and requests, and responding appropriately to concerns and / or directing such to relevant quarters.
• Drive efforts to build the organization brand and create broad-based awareness in the public domain.
• Coordinate social media logistics for the organization’s events including driving strong publicity, ensuring adequate participation of required stakeholders and publishing updates of the event via social media.
• Profile and facilitate connection with relevant events and stakeholders in the agriculture and nutrition landscape across Africa.
• Conduct online survey and advocacy activities.
• Liaise with relevant communications units and agencies for features, participation and other promotional activities.
• Monitor online ratings, obtain feedback and respond accordingly.
• Monitor threats and opportunities in user-generated content surrounding the organization and report notable threats to the team.
• Monitor and report emerging trends and effective best practices in social media tools, applications, channels, designs and strategies.
• Analyse, review and report the effectiveness of social media activities and develop strategies for improvement.
• Carry out other responsibilities assigned by the management.

Minimum Required Skills & Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications, Digital Marketing, Business Administration, New Media / Public Relations or related fields.
• Previous experience as a Social Media Coordinator for a similar organization would be a strong advantage
• Highly articulate individual with excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Excellent research, editing and proof-reading (photo / video / text) skills.
• Demonstrable social networking experience and knowledge of social analytics tools.
• Strong graphic design skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of current online marketing channels.
• Positive attitude, good team player, attentive to details with good multitasking and organizational ability.
• Highly flexible and able to set priorities.
• Extensive list of stakeholder contacts in the agriculture and food sector is an advantage.
• Adequate knowledge of Conversion Rate Optimization and Search Engine Optimization is a strong advantage.

Method of Application

Go to Sahel Group on sahel.clouderp.ng to apply or visit https://www.myjobmag.com/job/social-media-coordinator-sahel-group

Timeline

Commencement date

Mar 30, 2020

Completion date

Apr 01, 2020

Type of opportunity