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Job Title:   Social Media Executive

Organisation: Hariss International Limited (Riham Group)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Hariss International Limited is one of Uganda’s leading manufacturers of food and beverages. Since its inception in 2005 the production of both food and beverages have been operating under the brand name RIHAM.

Job Summary:  The Social Media Executive will work closely with Public Relations, Graphics and other Marketing teams to define and execute the day-to-day social media activities across selected company accounts.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Assist in developing and managing content for the selected social media accounts, including writing and posting editorial content and graphics, and liaising with the PR regularly.
• Take the design “brief” to record graphics requirements and needs.
• Schedule design project implementation.
• Work with a wide range of media and use graphic design software.
• Think creatively and develop new design concepts, graphics and layouts.
• Prepare work to be accomplished by gathering information and materials.
• Plan concepts by studying information and materials.
• Illustrate concepts by designing rough layout of art and copy regarding arrangement, size, type size and style, and related aesthetic concepts.
• Prepares final layout by marking and pasting up finished copy and art.
• Ensure that social media policies are adhered to, are well socialized across the company and remain in compliance.
• Manage and keep an overview of all activities across all platforms.
• Assist with monitoring the organization’s reputation online.
• Build and execute social media strategy, through content research, audience identification, benchmarking, brand messaging and by conducting surveys.
• Set up and optimize company social media pages on various platforms for the best visibility of the company’s social media content.
• Monitor and develop reports and counter strategies based on competitor activities with social media spaces.
• Develop engaging, creative and innovative content for regularly selected posts which enlightens audiences and promote brand focused messages.
• Analyse social media campaigns with tracking systems to gather visitor data and determine efficiency and areas for social media campaign improvement.
• Performs any other task as per management request.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• A minimum of three years of experience in a similar role in a busy environment.
• Knowledge and experience in Graphics.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills, including the proven ability to handle multiple complex projects simultaneously and against deadline.
• Superior communication skills, including writing, editing and verbal capabilities
• Superior knowledge of the WordPress Content Platform
• Significant hands-on experience building and executing social media strategies to achieve business objectives
• Proficient knowledge and experience with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn (earned, owned, and paid) and other social media platforms for marketing use
• Experience with social listening, measurement and analytics (e.g. Hootsuite Radian6, Google Analytics and others)
• Experience with email marketing
• Extensive knowledge of and experience with community management best practices
• A meaningful knowledge of the media industry and digital marketing
• Pragmatic sense of business acumen, problem solving abilities, creativity, and sense of “getting things done”

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested applicants should apply online at the link below

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