Content Manager: Soccer Laduma

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Novus Holdings Full time

**Job Desciption**:
**Role title**: Lifestyle and social media content manager with sub editing component.

**Job family**: Editorial

**Reports to**: Production editor

**Department**: Soccer Laduma and KickOff lifestyle and social media

**Main purpose of the role**:
Soccer Laduma and Kick Off has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic content manager managing lifestyle content and social media elements.

The successful incumbent will be required to manage content submitted daily by a small team of journalists in line with the publication’s editorial approach by evaluating all content of all articles to ensure accuracy and recommend modifications and changes to achieve all objectives and edit all articles to ensure achievement to all quality standards.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Duties & Responsibilities include**:

- Manage content submitted by the journalists or content creators daily, in line with the publication’s editorial approach and strategies.
- Evaluate all content to ensure accuracy and recommend modifications and changes to achieve all objectives and edit all articles to ensure achievement to all quality standards.
- Subbing and publishing of web content, with defined number of articles a day.
- Subbing and publishing of social media content, with defined number of posts a day.
- Headline and copy bolstering.
- Manage content performance and social reposts.
- Manage the content for the editorial and sales campaigns.
- Management of the content reel.
- Curation and management of social media channels.
- Social promotions on the respective social media platforms and/or standalone platforms.
- Work with the editor to draw up, implement and report on plans to grow the sections.
- Drive traffic to the websites.
- Ensure the implementation and improvement of SEO best practice in the content offering.

**Educational Requirements**:
**Minimum Requirements**:

- Completed a national degree or diploma in English, journalism or media studies, or demonstrate the ability to deliver on the expectations.

**Experience Requirements**:

- Three - five years’ experience in content management and subbing.
- Must have a sound knowledge of football, footballers’ lifestyles, fashion and social media.
- A requirement is to be up to date with the latest developments in football, both local and international.
- A requirement is to be up to date with the footballer’s social media presence.
- Strong digital skills.
- Good understanding of social media best practice and trends.
- Passion for South African and international football and a knowledge of clubs, leagues and players.
- Understanding of media law and be able to adhere to the South African Press Code.

**Skills and Competencies**:
**Skills & Competencies**:

- Strong attention to detail to ensure clean copy.
- Have a strong command of the English language, with the ability to correct and enhance spelling, grammar and creative writing.
- Ability to work under pressure due to intense online environment.
- Reliability.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Can make decisions independently as well as within a group.
- Strong planning and organisational skills.
- Logical thinker who can analyse situations and come up with the right solutions.
- Excellent people-relations skills.
- Problem solving ability.
- Planning and organising skills
- Show initiative and act independently.
- Resilient.
- Inquisitive.
- Good time management and the ability to multitask effectively and follow through.



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