Junior Community Manager Opportunity

New York and South African based start-up Springleap is on the lookout for a dynamic junior community manager to work from our Cape Town office to help connect, network and engage with creatives, marketers, brand strategists and digital experts from all disciplines within Springleap’s emerging key markets. With the ultimate goal being able to help build and engage with our community across Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA.

Using a toolkit of email, phone, search engines and marketing techniques, we’re looking for a team member that is excited about pulling forces to help grow our creative community on the global front.
There is a great deal of opportunity to holistically evolve in ever-thriving working environment.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the community director to create and maintain email templates to concisely explain Springleap’s offering to prospective creative’s
• Maintain and find interesting ways to stimulate, activate and organically grow the community at Springleap
• Undergo thorough research and searching across the web to pull the correct resources into the business to ensure the quickest and most cost effective solution for sourcing and acquisition of creatives across all skills, disciplines and regions
• Using a combination of email and phone prospecting techniques to communicate our value proposition to creatives
• Tracking down prospective email addresses for creatives from region-specific websites and social media networks
• Meeting weekly and monthly targets for creative acquisition
• Quality assuring creatives for trend report projects
• Participating in creative sourcing, recruitment and on boarding strategy discussions
• Prepare and maintain a structured communication plan (newsletter) for the community in the relevant market/s
• Manage and communicate with creatives pre, during and post projects
• Reporting on community matters (highs and lows), potential issues, progress on tasks
• Research and analyse industry trends and competitive offering
• Assisting the community director with specific project panel sourcing and the preparation of project briefs
• Maintaining the community database on a quarterly basis

Letter of motivation requirement: In addition to submitting your CV, please explain why you feel you’re a suitable candidate for this position and what exactly about this position do you find interesting and inspiring.

Company Description

Started in 2008 in Cape Town, Springleap is a platform for agencies and brands to access over 20,000 creatives around the world. We work with the largest names in the global and South African brand landscape, and deliver innovative solutions to ensure creativity thrives from concept to execution. We are backed by advisors and investors from the world’s largest agencies, technology companies and brands, and are expanding rapidly throughout Africa and North America.

Requirements

• Undergraduate qualification
• Self motivated, positive and outgoing
• Knowledge of the advertising industry helpful
• Articulate
• Ability to craft persuasive and grammatically correct emails
• Ability to build and maintain relationships
• Motivated by milestones and goals
• Well organised and structured
• Work independently
• PR experience is a nice to have

Posted on 17 Jul 11:06        APPLY NOW