Social Content Creator

Overview:

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and driven social-first content creator to take responsibility for the creation of engaging, impactful, and relevant content for our retail clients. This person will work closely with the Social Content Producer, our social media managers and in-house digital creative teams to produce quick-turnaround content that taps into social media trends, particularly for TikTok, Instagram and Facebook.

The ideal candidate must have a strong creative eye, excellent shooting and editing skills, and the ability to ideate and execute content that aligns with our clients' marketing objectives. This person should be highly adaptable, self-motivated, and always on top of the latest social content trends, able to identify which trends to leverage for different clients.

You must be well organized and have excellent creative and communication skills, be flexible, be self-motivated, multi-task, and most importantly, be adaptable. A positive and enthusiastic problem-solving attitude will get you far. The ability to apply strategic thinking and creativity to deliver top of the range visual content is essential for this role.

This role calls for a talented, self-motivated all-rounder with initiative to keep ahead of the digital content space. Ideally, you will be excited about technology, enjoy playing with new content creation and editing tools, and see challenges as opportunities.

Responsibilities:

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include identifying and responding to trending content opportunities, conceptualizing, shooting, and editing social-first content, and ensuring that all output aligns with our clients’ brand objectives. You will play a key role in shaping and enhancing our clients' social media presence through innovative content executions.

Your focus will be largely centered around tactical proposals and executions for social media. Ideally this would require you to collaborate very closely with our social and influencer marketing departments to ensure ongoing access to online listening, trends, insights, and brand opportunities. 

You will need to have experience of managing creative products from start to finish; you would be required to ideate and deliver final creative products for social media and other online channels. From conceptualising and story-boarding ideas through to creating the execution of content – filming / lighting and editing to photographing and retouching.

• Conceptualise, storyboard, and execute social-first content, including video, photography, and motion graphics - pre-planned, ad-hoc and quick turn-around visual content creation.
• Collaborate closely with the content producer, social media managers and in-house creative teams to develop engaging content for social platforms.
• Production: Art Direction, Videography, Photography, Illustration and Design.
• Postproduction: Editing, retouching, FA etc. 
• Excellent proposal and presentation skills with the ability to build client relationships.
• Clear understanding of production requirements and be able to work effectively within timelines and budgets 
• Ability to multitask several creative projects and able to work under tight deadlines
• Be on the forefront of trends and innovations on the local & international landscape for social media, photography, videography and editing techniques. 
• Shoot and edit content using a variety of tools, including TikTok’s in-app editor, CapCut, Adobe Premiere, and other relevant software.
• Ensure all content is aligned with clients’ brand messaging, marketing goals, and visual identity.
• Manage and maintain content production equipment, ensuring readiness for on-the-go content creation.
• Actively participate in creative A/B and content performance testing.

Experience:

Relevant degree and/or qualifications (against this job spec

• 3-5 years' relevant experience (against this job spec)
• Portfolio displaying your own conceptual and strategic design and editing/storytelling skills
• Experience with diverse types of production equipment and software
• Experience in creating and executing brand content for social and online platforms including email, website, app and/or paid media.

Personal attributes and desired skills :

• Responsible and trustworthy 
• Excellent creative skills and a great eye for detail
• Videography Platforms: After Effects, Premier, Social in app Editing, CapCut
• Social Platform Experience: Facebook and Instagram Studio, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter, Whats App etc.
• Photography Platforms: Photoshop and Lightroom, Social in app Editing 
• Design Platforms: Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma
• Bonus: Digital Platforms: Google Web Design

In summary, we are looking for someone with creative flair. A keen storyteller at heart and the desire to want to explore the budding world of Content Marketing. Someone who is in touch with the world socially, and excited at the thought of creating stories with some of South Africa’s best loved brands – using video and visual medium. If this speaks to you, then we want YOU. And we want you to want us too.

Posted on 22 May 12:35, Closing date 20 Jun