Marketing Assistant - Johannesburg, South Africa - Good Help Recruitment

Good Help Recruitment

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Duties and Responsibilities

Communications '" PR

Drafting press releases, awards submissions and media pitches
Distribution of press releases and media pitches
Preparing media briefing notes
Monitoring forward features lists for opportunities
Daily news scanning to identify commentary opportunities
Maintenance of target journalist lists, forward features, and awards calendar
Work with others in the marketing and business development team to ensure sector and practice area campaigns and initiatives translate into quality media engagement and thought leadership coverage
Engaging with the global digital team to ensure pertinent campaigns are being promoted in innovative ways
Assist with the drafting and updating of contact sheets, experience statements, credentials materials and client relationship statements

Communications '" Internal
Drafting of internal comms for new joiners, international days, long service awards, significant religious holidays etc

Blog

Work with the business development and marketing team to produce pieces of content for PR and online communication channels of the firm eg Inside Africa blog contributions
Upload of blogs to the Financial Institutions Legal Snapshot and briefing in content to global blog platforms eg workplace insider

Events

Supporting the organization of media events, journalist briefings and roundtables
Supporting the organization of Director's conference and Associate weekend away
Supporting the organization of various firm events such as Yearend function, Spring Day, Secretaries Day, Nelson Mandela Day etc
Assist with design of invitations utilizing Vuture

Digital communications

Preparing and drafting social media and website press

- release requests / posts

Ensure the Practice group and Sector intranet and internet web pages are up to date

Reporting

Logging daily South African press coverage and media activity into the team database
Compiling daily, weekly and monthly PR reports for key campaigns, sectors, practices and regions

Submissions '" directories and awards

Owning overall timetable for South Africa to ensure we meet the deadlines and that all submissions include the right communications messages
Ensuring statistics/rankings are fed back into the correct systems and profiled appropriately
Ensure that the business rankings in selected directories are monitored and communicated internally within the business, as well as in external communiques where appropriate and relevant

Miscellaneous / Ad hoc
Any other communications duties as directed reasonably by the South African Head of Marketing

Qualifications, Experience & other Attributes

Marketing or PR diploma or degree
Five years' experience in a marketing/corporate communications role (agency or corporate)
Marketing technology '" Vuture
Proactive, actionoriented, ambitious and willing to take initiative
Practical and efficient with strong organizational and time and project management skills
Excellent attention to detail
Excellent written and spoken communication skills
Collaborative and enjoys working as part of a highperforming and international team
Sound working knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and Excel
A strong interest in learning more about professional services marketing and communications