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Brand Content Manager

accelerate agency
Full-time
Remote
South Africa, South Africa
R17,000 - R30,000 ZAR monthly
Remote Only

Brand Content Manager (South Africa)

The Company

accelerate agency is a fast growing SaaS SEO agency. As we’re currently experiencing expedited growth, we’re now searching for an experienced Brand Content Manager to join our team.

Objectives of this Role

  • Overseeing our company’s content strategy from ideation to distribution
  • Driving content production that will attract and convert leads for our sales
  • Managing a team of creatives and balancing administrative tasks alongside editorial duties
  • Optimizing content for conversion, improving existing content, and filling content gaps

Responsibilities

  • Working with the content writing, graphic design, web development, and social media teams to plan, create, and distribute content
  • Developing a comprehensive content strategy across multiple platforms, including the company website, off-site and social media channels
  • Creating and maintaining a streamlined content calendar that keeps the whole team on track
  • Proofreading and editing submissions according to brand guidelines
  • Reviewing analytics and search performance reports to assess the success of content marketing initiatives
  • Performing regular content audits to ensure content is accurate, optimized, updated, and relevant to the target audience
  • With our in-house SEO team, implement SEO best practices to ensure all content ranks well and demonstrates an understanding of its target audience
  • Working with our outreach team to improve the website’s search engine ranking scores
  • Brainstorming new content ideas alongside the larger creative and marketing team

Skills and Qualifications

  • Minimum 3 years of content management experience in an international setting
  • Proven people management skills and experience
  • Exceptional writing and editing skills
  • Excellent organizational skills
  • A knack for creativity
  • Experience using popular content management systems and analytics tools (Ahrefs, WordPress, and Google Search Console are a few examples)
  • A firm grasp of UX and on-page conversion rate optimisation
  • Experienced with SEO best practices
  • Confident working with a wide variety of stakeholders, both internal and external
  • Can work and deliver to tight deadlines
  • Possesses strong written and verbal English language communications skills
  • Ability to express ideas and feedback accurately

Bonus Skills

  • Knowledge of web design, including CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript
  • Basic graphic design skills
  • Project management tools (Asana)

Useful Information

  • We offer a competitive salary, which will be transferred to the employee from our UK-based account as a gross amount. The employee will be responsible for any tax-related procedures in the country of residence. We kindly ask you to apply only if you are happy to work remotely as an independent contractor.
  • Working hours: Mondays - Fridays, 8 hours 30 minutes per day inclusive of 30 mins break, with flexible start - that can be between 7:30 and 10:00 am, UK time zone.
  • There will be additional benefits post a paid 3-month probationary period. Benefits include paid holidays and sick days, and others.