Manager: Social Media (Reference not applicable)

Advertiser: Department of Cooperative Governance

Location: Pretoria

Chief Directorate: Communication and Liaison
Salary: All inclusive remuneration package of R495 603 per annum (Deputy-Director Level)

Requirements:
A three-year Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Communication / Public Relations / Marketing / Journalism / Videography with appropriate experience in a communication environment.
Core competencies:
- Applied strategic thinking
- People management and empowerment
- Project management
- Service delivery innovation
- Problem solving and analysis
- Client orientation and customer focus
- Communication skills.

Technical competencies:
- Communication strategy development
- Multimedia services
- Solid understanding of social media universe
- Understanding of web, mobile and email platforms
- Good writing skills.

Duties:
The successful candidate will perform the following duties:
- Develop and manage viral social media marketing campaigns
- Develop content for posting on all designated social media outlets
- Manage daily posts / tweets to all applicable social media outlets
- Coordinate calendar of events with online activity
- Track social media influence measurements by partnering with other departments to ensure proper online messaging
- Ensure consistency of messages across multiple networks
- Monitoring online competitor perceptions researching news blogs and channels for relevant online data, and maintaining posting schedules.

Enquiries: Mr B Rakate, tel. (012) 336 5806

The vision of the Department of Cooperative Governance is one of having a well-co-ordinated system of Government consisting of National, Provincial and Local spheres working together to achieve sustainable development and service delivery. The Department intends to invest in human capital, increase integrated technical capacity directed at service delivery and promote representivity in the Department through the filling of these post. Candidature of persons whose appointment / transfer / promotion will promote representivity will therefore receive preference.

Applications:
Please forward your application, quoting the relevant reference number to the following address: Department of Cooperative Governance, Private Bag x 804, Pretoria 0001 or hand-deliver to: 87 Hamilton Street, Cnr Johannes Ramokhase (Proes) Street and Hamilton Street, Arcadia, for the attention of: Human Resource Management. Application enquiries can be directed to: Ms M Bakhane, tel (012) 395-4728

Note:
Applications must be submitted on a Z83 form (click to download pdf form) and should be accompanied by a comprehensive CV and certified copies of qualifications and ID. It is the applicant’s responsibility to have foreign qualifications evaluated by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.

Incomplete applications or applications received after the closing date will not be considered. Due to the large number of responses anticipated, correspondence will be limited to short-listed candidates only. If you have not been contacted within three months after the closing date of the advertisement, please accept that your application has been unsuccessful. We thank you for the interest shown in our Department.

Reference number: Not applicable

Closing date: 10 May 2013