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Job Description

• Step into the fast-paced world of marketing with a role that puts you at the heart of the action! As a Marketing Assistant in our Durban office, you’ll gain hands-on experience across campaigns, events, and brand projects—working alongside a dynamic team that brings bold ideas to life. If you're a passionate team player who’s ready to learn, grow, and contribute to something meaningful, this is your moment to shine. Apply now.

You Bring:

• Completed or studying towards a relevant degree.
• Knowledge of and experience working with Microsoft Office.
• 6 months to 1 year working experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to foster relationships.
• High level of organisation and attention to detail.
• Excellent planning and time management skills.
• Ability to multi-task in a deadline-driven environment and show initiative.
• Ability to work under pressure and still produce good quality results timeously.
• Understanding of basic business and marketing concepts.
• Ability to spot emerging trends.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong presentation and reporting skills

What You’ll Do:

• Support the marketing team with planning, implementing, and monitoring of marketing campaigns and various other projects.
• Assist with executing the marketing strategies and contribute to developing campaigns with the Team.
• Arrange status meetings, manage status reports and ensure deadlines are being monitored and met.
• Provide administrative assistance and support to the Marketing Team.
• Provide support for, and attend, promotions, marketing or company events and exhibitions where required.
• Update and maintain the marketing department’s documentation and databases.
• Ordering of marketing materials, stock takes and replenishment of stock and promotional items
• Daily operational tasks to ensure the smooth running of Team.
• Arrange branding and marketing collateral as required.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.
• Assist with online market research in order to extract and report on competitor marketing, consumer insights, market trends, industry forecasts, competitor analysis and target audience.
• Monitor stock, budgets and reconciliations in real time reporting on any variances.
• Actions any reasonable marketing related tasks required.
• Some weekend and after-hours work may be required from time to time.
• Good planning support requires sound judgement and effective problem-solving skills.
• Requires the ability to organise, understand and workflow to meet deadlines.

Living the Spirit:

• Be proactive in offering assistance and volunteering to take on tasks or projects when needed.
• Don't wait to be assigned work; actively seek opportunities to contribute and add value to the team's efforts.
• Demonstrate a "can-do" attitude and a willingness to learn and grow.
• Approach your daily responsibilities with enthusiasm and a positive outlook.
• Embrace new challenges and changes in your marketing projects as opportunities for growth and learning.
• Be open to trying new approaches and exploring innovative ways to support the team.
• Express your unique perspective and creativity in your work; while ensuring it aligns with BETS brand identity.
• Don't be afraid to suggest creative ideas and solutions that reflect your authentic self.
• Encourage a work environment where colleagues can also express their individuality.
• Collaborate effectively with your team members by actively communicating and sharing ideas and feedback
• Support and assist your colleagues in their tasks and projects.
• Recognise and celebrate the successes and contributions of your team, acknowledging that together you achieve more.
• Ensure that your work aligns with BETS values and brand identity and maintain consistency in how you support in your marketing campaigns and projects.
• Ensure that your tasks and projects directly contribute to BETs brand and marketing objectives.
• Maintain open and transparent communication with your team members and stakeholders, sharing insights, progress, and challenges as they arise.
• Bring your passion for marketing into your work, and let it shine through in your contributions to the team.
• Continuously seek opportunities to learn and grow in your role, staying up to date with marketing best practices and industry trends.
• Curiosity and passion for marketing and insights into new ideas.

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We Want You:

• Level up your DBA career! Join our growing Team as an Intermediate DBA. In this role, you'll maintain and enhance a Microsoft SQL Server-based database environment, ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of systems that sit at the heart of our tech offering. As the go-to owner of databases across the organisation, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of our data operations while growing your career and working with the latest Microsoft SQL technologies. Ready to take ownership of high-performance databases powering a national software solution? Apply now!

You Bring:

• Completed BSc Computer Science or National Diploma in IT.
• Solid time management and communication skills essential.
• Experience in designing/optimising MSSQL databases.
• 3–5 years’ experience in a commercial environment.
• 3+ years’ experience in MSSQL – all aspects.
• Advanced SQL skills and query writing skills.
• Optimisation and fine-tuning of all aspects of MSSQL.
• Ensuring high database availability.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate advantageous.

What You’ll Do:

Database Design

• Ensure Database design is robust, scalable, and operating optimally.
• Work with other DBAs to make sure that the solutions meet application requirements and performance goals.
• Actively contribute to planning meetings, documentations, and testing.

Database Performance

• Ensure Store Procedures are optimised.
• Rollback and Disaster recovery management.
• Ensure high DB availability as this has a public facing web front end.
• Work towards a long-term Data warehousing solution based on SQL server 2016 Enterprise.
• Support and update existing products.

Monitoring

• Monitor database performance, implement changes, and apply new patches and versions when required.
• Utilise tools and scripts to monitor all aspects of database performance, including the underlying compute, storage, and networking.
• Drive the adoption of processes within the team that consider and meet the expectations of technical throughput rates and responses; processing times; and effective resource utilisation during operation, ensuring the system or solution meets maximum operational capacity requirements.
• Good understanding of big data manipulation methodology.
• Use high-speed transaction recovery techniques and back up data.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot database errors.
• Create and manage database reports, visualizations, and dashboards.

 Initiative and Innovation

• Recommend and implement emerging database technologies.
• Take an active involvement in problem resolution and where necessary works after hours to ensure that problems are resolved.
• Shows foresight to prevent errors or delays in projects.
• Demonstrate initiative by understanding, acquiring, and implementing new knowledge and skills both within team and to the wider group.
• Incorporates the new abilities into the day-to-day operational activities to improve performance of products and systems.
• Ensure techniques, technologies, tools, and processes used are in line with industry best practices.

 Knowledge Share

• Identify Team members requiring a specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill the Team members through coaching and mentorship.
• Verify the knowledge has been imparted successfully and if not, take steps to rectify gaps in transfer of the knowledge.
• Provide technical guidance to the team through collaboration sessions and knowledge sharing initiatives.

Living the Spirit:

• Ability to work seamlessly with colleagues and in a collaborative approach to improve database solutions and outcomes.
• Openness to changes and improvements in the data base systems by embracing new technologies and methodologies that will enhance the performance and security of the data base.
• Prompt responses to requests and issues relating to Database management and therefore enhancing Teams’
• Willingness to share knowledge on the system on configurations, process, and procedures with other Team members so they have a clear understanding of how the database works in a way that is easy to understand.
• Maintain a positive and can-do attitude, which can inspire and motivate yourself and other team members in all situations.
• Support and coach fellow junior Team members and assisting them to develop their skills and grow in the team.

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• Design with impact. BET Software is looking for an Intermediate UI/UX Designer to bring creativity and innovation to our Marketing Team in Durban. In this role, you’ll craft seamless digital experiences, ensuring every interaction is intuitive, engaging, and user-friendly. Collaborating with product owners, developers, and marketers, you’ll shape the look, feel, and functionality of our digital platforms using UI/UX best practices. If you have an eye for design and a passion for enhancing user experiences, we want to hear from you.

You Bring:

• 2-4 years of experience in UI/UX Design.
• BSC Degree in Computer Science / Web Design Certificate.
• Completed SASS Course on Udemy (https://www.udemy.com/course/sasscourse/).(Preferred)
• Knowledge in the Adobe Suite.
• Proficient in cross browser development.
• Experience in Bootstrap 3 + 4. (advantageous)
• Experience in Javascript. (advantageous)
• Graphic Design and Wireframing Tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD - proficiency in one or more):
• User research and testing tools - experience in conducting and analysing user research
• Strong attention to detail.
• Basic familiarity with usability testing tools and user surveys.
• Basic understanding of HTML/CSS for collaboration with developers

What You’ll Do:

Research

• Conduct in-depth user research, including user interviews, surveys, and competitive analysis.
• Identify the potential users of the system in terms of geographic location, financial standing, culture, language and other factors.
• Analyse what users are saying to reveal their user goals.
• Analyse qualitative data and provide recommendations.
• Present the data in ways that can be used to drive design: a) personas, b) user stories, c) user journey maps.
• Critically evaluate any previous user research and start your own research where appropriate.
• Perform synthesis and ideation.
• Identify the correct objectives and criteria for decision making.
• Identify and ask the correct questions and leverage those people who ask the correct questions.
• Hold focused idea generation sessions, with appropriate time limits.
• Set expectations and direct/focus the discussion.
• Be open to ideas which challenge existing views/opinions.
• Avoid group thinking and other bias’s.

Information Architecture/Design

• Develop and refine information architecture, conducting user flow analysis and information hierarchy.
• Define meta data which may assist the organisation with better design decisions.
• Establish the flow between a user and the solution to ensure shortest route to completion (user tasks).
• Uncover and describe users’ patterns of usage/behaviour.
• Organise, structure and label content, functions and features for the product in a logical and meaningful manner.
• Make recommendations between different design patterns for organising content (such as faceted navigation, tagging, hub and spoke, etc).
• Develop a controlled vocabulary for both development and users.
• Analyse data for outliers and take appropriate action.
• Run online and offline ticket/card sorting sessions, so development can prioritise improvements beyond merely technical and business requirements.
• Understanding of user socio-cultural - time - historic - geographical - physical - markets - use – task.
• Ensure the design is useful and accomplishes user goals, including non-practical benefits.
• Use fundamental principles of visual design (like contrast, alignment, repetition and proximity) to de-clutter user interfaces.
• Ensure the user can effectively and efficiently achieve their end objective with the shortest possible route.
• Ensure the user can easily find and complete their task/objective in an increasingly complex and varied product offering.
• Ensure the user experience is credible with feedback, confirmations and appropriate messaging.
• Ensure the brand, image, identity, aesthetics and emotional design of the solution is desirable: appropriate typography – grids – page layouts – colour palettes – icons – organisational branding.
• Ensure the design is accessible to users who may not have a full range of abilities, this includes impaired vision, hearing loss, motion impaired or learning impaired.
• Plan and schedule user experience development in consultation with developers and project managers/scrum masters.
• Constructively critique the work of team members, taking into consideration longer term relationships.
• Explain and evangelise the cost-benefit of user experience activities with development and management.
• Lead the multidisciplinary team in terms of user experience and design by making appropriate and well thought out decisions.
• Ensure the team remains engaged and involved with providing the optimum user experience.
• Promote ongoing professional development of the team in UI/UX.
• Complete prototyping.
• Translate ideas into interactions by developing prototypes and simulations.
• Choose the appropriate fidelity of prototype for the phase of design.
• Use fast iteration models to generate rapid turn arounds.
• Create paper prototypes where needed.
• Properly explore the design space before deciding on a solution.
• Create interactive electronic prototypes where possible.
• Perform usability evaluation.
• Choose the most appropriate evaluation method: formative v summative test - moderated v unmoderated test - lab v remote test - usability testing v expert review - usability testing v A/B test - usability testing v survey.
• Interpret usability principles and guidelines and use them to identify likely problems in user interfaces.
• Understand how to design an experiment and how to control and measure variables.
• Plan and administer different types of usability evaluation.
• Log the data from usability evaluations.
• Analyse the data from usability evaluations.
• Measure usability and prioritise usability challenges.
• Create high-fidelity interactive prototypes for user testing and stakeholder review.
• Design interactive elements, animations, and micro-interactions for a more engaging user experience.
• Lead the development of design style guides and maintain design consistency throughout projects.
• Collaborate closely with developers and other cross-functional teams to ensure successful design implementation.
• Champion a user-centered design approach, incorporating user feedback into design decisions.
• Contribute to the design of responsive and adaptive interfaces for various platforms and screen sizes.
• Mentor junior designers and assist in their skill development.
• Manage multiple design projects, from concept to delivery, and coordinate with cross-functional teams.
• Stay current with industry best practices, design trends, and emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align design strategies with business objectives.

Perform Technical Writing

• Always keep the user of the documentation in mind, so that ease of comprehension remains your top priority.
• Plan your purpose and scope of your writing before beginning.
• Set goals and timelines and communicate them.
• Ensure you follow established templates, styles, formats, and expectations.
• Draft a high-level outline covering all topics, then fill in specific content and supporting graphics.
• Review your drafts to ensure you have achieved accuracy, conciseness and the required levels of comprehension.
• Publish and deliver the documents on time.
• Define UI/UX requirements into tasks/tickets for the development team in a manner the development team understands.
• Test the target audiences understanding and refactor as appropriate.
• Choose the right kind of document for the situation.
• Write content in the tone of voice that matches the organisation's identity or brand.

Review and Refine the UI/UX Experience

• Liaise with stakeholders and manage expectations.
• Ensure organisational product/solution is competitive and relevant.
• Where possible ensure organisation leads the market in terms of UI/UX.
• Measure and monitor the effect of UX on product/organisational success.
• Refactor designs and plans as required.

Perform Testing

• Test internally for inconsistencies between what as expected and what was delivered.
• Provide development appropriate feedback.
• Ensure changes are implemented before “go-live”.
• Take a lead role in usability testing and expert reviews to improve overall product quality.

Living our Spirit:

• Take ownership of your work: Act responsibly and proactively in your role. Embrace new challenges and be willing to take on tasks that may be outside your comfort zone.
• Seek opportunities for improvement: Be open to feedback and continuously look for ways to enhance the user experience.
• Embrace creativity and innovation: Approach each project with a sense of excitement and a willingness to think outside the box. Try new design techniques, explore cutting-edge technologies, and stay up-to-date with industry trends to keep your work fresh and engaging.
• Be open to change: Embrace change and adapt to evolving user needs and technology. Treat every project as a unique journey with its own challenges and discoveries.
• Infuse your personality into your work: While adhering to design principles and user-cantered practices, inject your unique style and personality into your designs. This can help create memorable and authentic user experiences.
• Promote inclusivity and diversity: Ensure that your designs and user experiences are inclusive and respect the diversity of your user base. Encourage a culture of respect and appreciation for different perspectives within your team.
• Collaborate effectively: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and other stakeholders. Communication and collaboration are key to delivering a seamless user experience.
• Value different skills and perspectives: Recognise that everyone on the team brings unique strengths and expertise. Be open to learning from others and sharing your knowledge to collectively achieve your goals.