Web Content Team Leader

**Location**: Cape Town

**Reporting Line**:Digital Product Manager (AU based)

**Working Practices**: Minimum two days a week in the office with option to work flexibly for remaining days

**Contract**: Permanent

**Working hours**: 07H00 TO 15H30

**Role summary**:
We are seeking a highly organized and proactive individual for the position of Web Content Team Lead. The primary responsibility of this role is to effectively manage and oversee the day-to-day workload of Content Coordinators, ensuring tasks are assigned efficiently to team members.

The Web Content Team Lead will be responsible for coordinating with stakeholders, managing work priorities, and planning the working schedule of Content Coordinators. Additionally, this role will collaborate closely with the Web Content Manager to develop the website content strategy and allocate resources accordingly to projects.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Organize and oversee the day-to-day workload of content coordinators, ensuring tasks are assigned appropriately and completed within specified timelines.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to understand their content requirements and ensure their requests are addressed and prioritized effectively.
- Work closely with the Web Content Manager to develop and execute the website content strategy in alignment with company objectives.
- Collaborate with the Web Content Manager to allocate resources and assign team members to projects based on their skills and expertise.
- Prioritize work assignments based on the company’s strategic goals and objectives.
- Plan out the working schedule of content producers, considering project timelines, deadlines, and resource availability.
- Conduct regular team meetings to communicate project updates, review progress, and address any challenges or issues.
- Provide guidance and support to the Web Content Coordinators and Web Content Manager, ensuring their professional development and growth.
- Monitor the quality of content produced by the team, ensuring adherence to brand guidelines, SEO best practices, and web standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including design, development, marketing, academic and sales to ensure seamless integration and execution of content initiatives.
- Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies,
- Manages content across all OES owned websites, from a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
- Establish and maintain key internal relationships with communication stakeholders.
- Deliver content that helps grow traffic to enable the OES sales team to meet enrolment targets through leads for all university partners.
- Creating compelling, standout content in a competitive market

**Essential Skills, Experience and Qualifications**
- Formal qualifications in a relevant discipline is preferable
- Experience in communication campaign planning and management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Project and stakeholder management skills
- Content and communications strategy knowledge and implementation skills
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work under tight deadlines
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work with cross-functional teams
- The ability to work and communicate with a wide variety of stakeholders including senior executives.
- Leadership qualities with the ability to motivate and inspire team members.
- The ability to handle multiple tasks and take accountability for those tasks, prioritizing them appropriately
- whilst maintaining a strong dialogue around progress on projects and issues.
- Demonstrated ability in search engine optimization (SEO) techniques
- Time management and organizational skills with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Experience with a CMS, technical problem-solving skills and administrative skills
- Demonstrated ability to write engaging website copy.
- Basic knowledge of website usability and HTML would be desirable.

**The OES Group**

The OES Group is a team of over 1,750 people passionate about transforming lives through education. We are proud to work with the world's most prestigious universities and organizations to create online learning experiences that are immersive, learner-centric and at the forefront of innovation.

Our teams in the UK and Australia operate under the OES brand and the Construct brand in the US and South Africa. Together, with our vibrant and people focused culture, we have created over 11,000 online courses that have reached more than 100,000 learners worldwide.

Now is an exciting time to join our forward-thinking and fast-growing team. As demand for online education grows, we are actively seeking new partners, launching innovative products and expanding our presence in new geographies to capitalise on the opportunities the market presents.

These are some of the perks you can expect when you join the team:

- Flexible working hours
- Generous annual leave policy
- Learning and development opportunities wit