Social Media Manager

1 week ago

Hoedspruit, South Africa GVI Full time

**Reports to**: Head of Brand Communications

**Working location**: Hoedspruit

**Optional**: Live on campus

**Start date**: ASAP

**About GVI**

Looking to find a real purpose in your career again? At GVI, our teams bring a range of specialised skills together for a common goal: supporting a more sustainable future.

GVI is an international multi-award-winning social enterprise. We offer conservation and community development programs in 13 countries, all aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and led by our teams and experts from the communities we operate in.

Working at GVI is fast-paced and fun. We value passion, authenticity and innovation, and we treat our stakeholders with compassion and respect.

**About the role**

The goal of the Social Media Manager is to take Bushwise’s social media presence to the next level. You will create dynamic content featuring wildlife, safari, location, human and conservation stories to help grow the Bushwise brand across our social platforms. This role is also responsible for delivering excellent customer service via community engagement, and reporting on social insights to the business.

Role and responsibilities:

- **Social expert**
- Be one of our internal experts on organic social media content, platforms, developments and trends
- Bring the latest insights and best practices to Bushwise to help grow our social reach and engagement
- Actively monitor social media for breaking news and trending topic opportunities and join these conversations quickly
- **Social strategy**
- Collaborate with the Head of Brand Communications and team to design strategies for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn, focusing on rapid growth on Instagram and TikTok
- Roll out these platform strategies, creating unique, real, user-focused content
- **Videography and photography**
- Capture and produce top-quality content (photos, videos, interviews, video testimonials, video staff bios, stories, Q&As, promotional videos, and more) ready for distribution across social media and other channels
- **Student and trainer content**
- Encourage, collect and edit content captured by students and staff on the Bushwise campuses - UGC will be central to the social strategy
- **Live content**
- Stream and/or post content collected from the Bushwise campuses and surrounds on social media
- **Content planning and efficiency**
- Plan, create and schedule/post monthly content plans for all platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok)
- Communicate clearly and timeously with the Operations team to ensure proper task management (Trello experience is ideal)
- **Community engagement**
- Responsible for community management across all social platforms, providing excellent customer service and growing Bushwise’s engagement with users
- **YouTube**
- Contribute to growing a successful YouTube channel
- **Bushwise ambassador**
- Collaborate positively with both the Bushwise campus team and the GVI Central Support Marketing team
- Train, support and assess Bushwise students on their own social media content creation when required
- Maintain professional, positive relationships with Bushwise students and staff

**About you**

If you are ambitious, purpose-driven, and you have a great sense of humour, we want to meet you. As an organisation, we know that welcoming a broad range of people with unique identities makes us a more powerful workforce and we are committed to evolving our diversity, equity and inclusion practice.

Personal attributes:

- Extensive knowledge of Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube
- Excellent attention to detail and understanding of how people interact with content on different social platforms
- Creative, intelligent and engaged with conservation topics
- Great visual eye
- Ability to write sharp, clean copy
- Organised, efficient, and with good attention to detail
- Honest, empathetic and fuss-free
- Open communicator

Professional skills and experience:

- 2+ years of experience in a proven social media role
- A strong portfolio of work

**Benefits**

We’re not interested in empty perks like having a coffee culture. We do have coffee - if you join our central team in Cape Town, you could find yourself roped into coffee and snack challenges if you visit the office, but you could just as easily be taking your morning coffee at Roots cafe, high in the mountains of northern Thailand if you work on a base. Here’s what our global team enjoys:

- Social fund
- Training fund
- Half days on the first Friday of each quarter
- Collaborative, flexible culture
- Transparency - hear directly from the CEO consistently
- We laugh a lot, genuinely care about and support each other, and do the occasional dress-up

**You can find out more about the type of work GVI does and who we are as an organisation **here**.**

**To apply**

Please send your CV, Portfolio, LinkedIn link along with a cover letter stating why you feel you would be best suited

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