Senior Creative Technologist / Digital Communications Strategist
at PRAEKELT in Johannesburg
About Praekelt
Praekelt could be the leading pan-African mobile-first firm in Africa. Our carefully knit multi disciplinary teams in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, India along with the United Kingdom have provided creative and technical options – touching over 80 million people in 17 countries. We believe that mobile devices will be the main means by which people handle with all the top companies in Africa in future, share, expertise and finally, will see.
In the last decade Praekelt has built the experience to help a brand new era of nimble organizations tackle all these important areas having an integrated approach of building planning, and supporting pan -African platforms. Our technology has been developed in the ground up to guide population- size audiences in the African atmosphere – and we have a trackrecord of a few of the most effective systems over the country, and essentially, keeping, creating.
Job Description
We’re buying Senior Digital Communications Strategist/ Creative Technologist who will provide knowledge in campaign analytics together with strong experience in creating effective and modern communication approaches to join we of digital strategy experts. You’ll take responsibility for optimising model communication programs, building consumer insights and finding methods for building communities for our customers and plans designed across Africa, along with making sure these platforms perform optimally and that company and strategy targets are reached.
Here’s what the role entails:
Developing Exceptional Digital Techniques: We’ll rely on you to develop our customers realistic, topical, imaginative and excellent digital strategies.
Working Collaboratively with Design groups and the Creative Facility to realize your techniques: We believe in working in multidisciplinary teams support them to meet their business objectives and to exceed our clients’ expectations. You’ll must work with the Creative Business group consisting of Makers, Front End Developers and Creative Directors as well as the Design team to ensure scientific, innovative and tactical objectives align.
Control a team: We’re in the act of expanding our Creative Engineering team so that as a senior member of the team, you will be expected to aid coach and to grow the team.
Specific Responsibilities:
Act as part of the Creative Technology group to style insight powerful, modern and motivated electronic strategies, operating to customer experience through all steps from prospect identification.
Provide program tips and an optimization method for plans which take into consideration variations and the difficulties that you can get for various regions in Africa and which include technologies and multiple channels including website, wap, sms, USSD and social support systems.
Take full responsibility for many strategic requirements relating to the development of cultural tools, working closely together with the Creative Engineering team to make sure alignment with overall campaign strategies.
Take advantage of appropriate social networking and campaign measurement tools to giving Clients and Account Management teams with reasonable notice of any concerns and special insights into strategies to continually assess plan performance with a view.
Take full responsibility for cultural status management and tracking for our clients.
Get full responsibility for administration and the monitoring of activities and live systems from a strategic perspective
Guide on appropriate advertising activities made to attract appropriate followers to social tools, and control the roll-out of these strategies where necessary.
Provide comprehensive and up to the aggressive and resource facts, across Africa, along with date opinions of the social-media environment.
Provide client profiles and insights and become accountable for applying any qualitative research within the organization.
What’ll set you apart from other applicants:
Understanding or experience in social system projects designed for mobile
Expertise being a passionate and active Writer, Tweeter and/or Facebook-er
Imagination, ingenuity and power to develop innovative information
Knowledge in the implementation of indepth cultural program analysis tools
Expertise in working on Pan-African campaigns
Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills in employed in a multi-cultural setting, with multi-national distributed teams and campaigns.
Requirements:
A related postgraduate certification in IT, marketing, newmedia or other relevant field
Strong quantitative analytical expertise
A devoted customer of digital and social media, often in the find out about platforms, technologies and the most recent trends
Concentrated not merely around the company, but to the end user’s experience
Enthusiastic about creating enduring client relationships and longterm solutions
A practical and creative problem solver who knows the value of measurability
Excellent people management skills with knowledge in building a team
A confident communicator with terrace writing and presentation skills
Can work unsupervised in a unstructured environment that is open
Excellent attention to crazy and detail about deadlines
Excellent verbal and written Language skills
Considering joining we? We’d like to consult with you. Please contact careers@praekelt.com to start the discussion.
