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Job Description

The Community Manager is responsible for managing interactions on social media platforms, including responding to comments and direct messages. The successful candidate will entrench themself in the tone of voice of the brands they work on and will proactively foster community engagement by creating compelling conversations and coordinating interactive activities. Additionally, they will handle moderation duties with professionalism and uphold brand values. They will take on additional duties such as competition entry logging and monitoring. The Community Manager plays a pivotal role in uploading content and cultivating a positive online environment. This role requires working shifts on weekdays, and from 9 AM to 5 PM every second Saturday.

Responsibilities (include but not limited to):

• Schedule and post approved content
• Manage consumer conversations (including but not limited to TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn)
• Engage with relevant influencers who will support campaign objectives
• Social community listening: seeking and providing tactical opportunities and community insights to creative and reporting teams 
• Assist with other allocated tasks (e.g. competition administration) as and when required
• Effective daily and monthly management and planning of work thereby ensuring that deadlines and quality standards are met
• Flagg issues to management timeously and appropriately so that resolution is achieved before they escalate
• Accountable for all work from start to finish and ensure follow-through and accountability is achieved and maintained at all times
• Ensure a seamless working environment by providing effective cross-functional communication (both within the inter and intra company)
• Ensure that all knowledge created in the course of work is effectively managed, stored and maintained for current and future use
• Ensure that all company procedures, systems and methodologies are followed and maintained (including, but not limited to: Chase, authorisations, approvals, HR, reporting and other)
• Ensure all assistance in reporting responsibilities are met and that management is kept updated on project progress and developments
• Keep abreast of social media and advertising trends in accordance with industry best practice

Qualifications/Experience/Skill:

• Tertiary qualifications in Communications, Marketing or Advertising
• Minimum 2 years experience as a Community Manager or Engagement Manager in a Traditional Advertising Agency or a Digital Advertising Agency
• Proficient in Office 365 (i.e. Word/Excel/PowerPoint/SharePoint/Outlook etc.)
• A good command of the English language (both verbal and written)
• Comprehension in isiZulu, isiXhosa or Sesotho is an advantage
• Well versed in Digital
• Strong administration skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Ability to multi-task (able to work across multiple brands at any given time)

Personal Attributes:

• Team player with the ability to work independently
• Ability to remain calm in a fast paced environment
• Accountable
• Resilient
• Solution driven
• Reliable
• Meticulous with attention to detail
• Other: comfortable to work on-site (at the office) and comfortable to work on alcohol brands

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Purpose of the Position:

Are you ready to be part of a transformational journey that will reshape the digital landscape of Africa? Accenture has partnered with a leading Pan-African telecommunications company and has launched a groundbreaking Centre of Excellence (COE); dedicated to building future-focused digital products designed to empower and revolutionize the continent. This is your opportunity to join an innovative team and grow your career at the forefront of technological advancement, as we accelerate towards a brighter, more connected future for Africa.

Key Responsibilities:

We are looking to hire a DevSecOps Engineer/Specialist with 4-7 years of experience in DevOps Security across: 

•  Azure / AWS 
•  Docker and Kubernetes 
•  Terraform 
•  Building and modifying CI/CD pipelines 
•  Implementing and configuring Security Tooling - e.g., Software Composition Analysis (SCA), Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST). 
•  Ensure successful implementation and embedment of effective DevSecOps solutions (i.e. SAST, DAST, CWPP, SCA, etc.)
•  Assist the Engineering and Development teams to build effective and secured CI/CD pipelines, assisting in the configuration and maintenance of the pipelines - shifting security left
•  Ensure that capabilities are deployed through a CI/CD pipeline with security requirements adhered to prior to deployment
•  Communicate application security features to the engineering and development teams utilising a triad of people, processes, and technology
•  Advise engineering teams to consider patterns in software security development and best practice, provide recommendations on approach and automation related to security
•  Ensure compliance with Security and Operational risk standards
•  Work with theCloud team in the engineering of solutions on AWS Cloud using Infrastructure As Code methods such as Terraform and Ansible
•  Proactively monitor and fix vulnerabilities while building a “knowledge base”

Qualifications

• What skills & experience are we looking for?
•  Relevant Information Technology Degree or National Diploma
•  Experience with Dockers, Git, Jenkins, Kubernetes and GCP/Azure/GCP knowledge.
•  Working Experience on Linux based infrastructure.
•  Excellent understanding and experience of at least 2 of the following: Python, JavaScript, Shell, Node.js, Bash, Ruby.
•  Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, MongoDb. 
•  Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills.
•  Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services. 
•  Experience in deploying security measures in CI/CD cycle process. 
•  Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile Principles / methodology. 
•  Azure services with good hold on b2c identity manager and azure monitoring 
•  Certification: Microsoft certified: DevSecOps Lead expert or cleared az400 exam of azure

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Key Responsibilities:
As a Product Designer in the CoE, you are a multi-skilled individual that is able to combine UX and UI capabilities to deliver value for businesses and their customers. The role requires foresight to produce sustainable outputs that can be tested, validated, and integrated into the daily lives of many. At all times you will assess the value of the designed experience and ensure a high level of craft within your work. You will have the chance to work across a broad range of projects that enable the business to scale, bring new products to market and delight customers.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

Relationship management:

•  Team member check-ins and support
•  Integration relationship building
•  Client team relationship management

Analysis:

•  Requirements elicitation
•  Behavioural data analysis
•  User surveys and interviews
•  Persona’s and mental models
•  Empathy maps
•  Current product analysis
•  Competitor product analysis
•  Best practice analysis
•  User testing and feature validation

Ideate:

•  Solutioning workshops
•  Feature listing and prioritization
•  UX definition and principles
•  Browsing flows
•  Low-medium fidelity wireframing
•  Functional prototyping
•  Accessibility implementation guidelines
•  User stories and product roadmap contribution

Create:

•  Look and feel establishment
•  Graphic user interface design
•  Accessibility implementation and testing
•  Micro-copy and UX writing
•  Multi-device design and rollout
•  Design system setup and documentation
•  Micro-interactions and motion principles

Integrate:

•  Annotated design specifications
•  Visual asset preparation
•  Development implementation review
•  Product experience testing
•  Content quality assurance checks
•  Design system integration and governance

Qualifications
Requirements

•  Relevant tertiary qualification
•  Strong portfolio of product and platform design work
•  Proficient in utilising prototyping software, Figma and the Adobe suite
•  A superb eye for design with strong attention to detail
•  Good understanding of branding, marketing, data, media, social UI, UX, business analysis and technology
•  Ability to articulate and defend design decisions
•  The ability to create flexible design systems and component libraries
•  Good understanding of the development process and agile methodologies
•  Ability to work well alongside internal and external client teams
•  Take initiative and follow a self-leadership approach
•  Positive can-do attitude
•  Organised and efficient
•  Deadline orientated
•  Empathetic towards others
•  Strong team player contributing towards positive and respectful collaboration
•  Willingness to be challenged
•  Be able to perform within a high-pressure environment

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We are seeking an ambitious Digital Account Director. The successful candidate must have extensive experience working on Digital campaigns. It is imperative that the successful candidate keeps abreast with all advertising and digital trends, within industry best practices.

Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

Client services

• Participate in client meetings, managing meeting protocols, agenda, etc.
• Ensure status is consistently up-to-date and correct.
• Ensure that all meetings have thorough agendas, driving a productive outcome.
• Ensure that contact reports are delivered timeously with key deliverables and then drive out those deliverables to the agreed timings
• Plan and participate in client review meetings with team
• Develop a consulting/advisory capability with client wherever possible
• Communicate with the client on a daily basis and foster a solid relationship
• Be consistently responsive and accessible to your client and team at all times
• Ability to have tough and honest conversations with your client to enable your team to deliver excellence and to create trust
• Build and manage the relationship with clients where they can rely on you, you proactively update them, and you assist them in delivering their requirements on time by reminding them as required
• Ability to manage all kinds of personalities and always strive to get the best out of each individual
• Excellent knowledge understanding of the client, the agency, the strategy, and the process in order to deliver efficiently and to the highest qualitY

Account Management & Planning

• Work with delivery team to produce timing plans for all jobs and campaigns to drive delivery
• Always know the status of each of your jobs in the system
• Work together with your full team across delivery, creative, production, content etc. to deliver high quality work
• Ensure that the right people have approved all work before it is sent to client
• Manage tight deadlines while adhering to processes
• Seamlessly manage multiple stakeholders across brands under the guidance of the Business Unit Director
• Take full ownership of every job that comes through you – ensure that every job is measured against client requirements, agreed strategy and on-brand
• Write excellent briefs with full clarity on all requirements and inspire strategy, creative, production, development to do great work
• Consider the impact of any given change briefed by client on other elements in a campaign or other jobs in the system – this might be a timing impact, it might be a strategic impact, it might require more work on other elements / jobs
• Communicate with excellence, maturity and intent when writing or speaking
• Have excellent self-management, with thorough to-do lists and personal organization which supports your ability to be efficient and effective in your job
• Have an opinion and be solution orientated
• Keep abreast of the latest digital and social trends in accordance with industry best practice

Qualifications

Requirements / Experience / Skill:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Marketing or Business Communications
• Minimum 3 years working experience as an Account Director or Senior Account Manager in Advertising Agency (or in a similar environment)
• Proficient in Office 365 (i.e. Word/Teams/Excel/PowerPoint etc.)
• Well versed in Digital
• A good command of the English language (both verbal and written)
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong administrative and organizational skills
• Strong numerical skills (financial & budget management experience)
• Strong multitasking skills (ability to work on more than one brief at any given time)

Personal Attributes:

• Collaborate with key team members with the ability to work independently
• Ability to remain calm in highly pressurised environment
• Accountable
• Reliable
• Resilient
• Solution driven / problem solver
• Deadline driven
• A passion for storytelling
• Meticulous with attention to detail
• Other: Valid driver’s license (with own vehicle) and comfortable to work on-site

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The Midweight Art Director will contribute to visual storytelling; responsible for assisting in conceptualising and executing compelling visual content that engages the audience and enhances the brand presence. The successful candidate will support in developing and implementing creative solutions, assisting in overseeing photo and video shoots, collaborating with copywriters and marketing teams, and ensuring brand consistency across all social media channels. The successful candidate will possess a keen eye for design and be abreast of social media trends.

Responsibilities (include but not limited to):

• Assist in executing top-quality design from concept to delivery complying with brand standards in execution of social media materials
• Conceptualise big ideas and copy that ensure social media achieves KPIs for social clients
• Assist in developing digital storyboards and animation
• Assist in animating and editing videos
• Provide support in conceptualising and executing work
• Work across social platforms and formats
• Communicate effectively across all levels (both internal and external)
• Present ideas and concepts articulately and confidently
• Support in driving a high-performance culture through efficiency
• See projects through the whole creative process – from concept, art direction and design to production
• Present social media concepts and calendars to clients on a regular basis
• Populate content calendars and produce content timeously to calendar timelines
• Remain fully immersed in social platform trends and changes to ensure content stands out on social media channels
• Drive brand consistency across all communications
• Use SEO principles to maximize content reach and search rankings
• Source images and other content
• Keep abreast of social media and advertising trends in accordance with industry best practice

Qualifications

Qualifications/Experience/Skills:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Design
• Minimum 3 years experience as a Midweight Art Director / Designer in an Creative Agency or similar environment
• Proficient in Office 365 (i.e. SharePoint/MS Teams etc.)
• Proficient in Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects etc.
• Experience using Figma will be advantageous
• Well versed in Digital (have a good understanding of social media KPI’s)
• Excellent digital design, graphic and typographic skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong multitasking skills (ability to work across multiple platforms at given time)
• An online portfolio showcasing Always On social (digital) and TTL work

Personal Attributes:

• Team player with the ability to work independently
• Ability to work under pressure, conscientious and accountable for own actions and output
• Can manage change in a fast-paced industry on constantly changing platforms
• Resilient
• Reliable
• Creative "out of the box" thinker
• Deadline driven
• Meticulous with attention to detail
• Other: Comfortable to work on alcohol brands and comfortable to work on-site (at the office)

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We are in search of a dynamic Account Director with a strong background in digital campaigns. The ideal candidate will stay updated on advertising and digital trends, ensuring adherence to industry best practices.

Responsibilities (include but not limited to):

• Lead client meetings, managing protocols and agendas effectively
• Maintain up-to-date and accurate status reports
• Develop comprehensive agendas for productive meetings and deliver thorough contact reports promptly
• Foster strong client relationships through daily communication and proactive assistance
• Facilitate honest conversations with clients to ensure excellence and trust
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality work
• Take ownership of project timelines and ensure alignment with client requirements and strategies
• Provide clear and inspiring briefs to creative and production teams
• Stay informed about the latest digital and social trends
• Keep abreast of the latest digital and social trends in accordance with industry best practice

Qualifications

Requirements / Experience / Skills:

• Tertiary qualification in Marketing or Business Communications
• Minimum 3 years of experience as an Account Director or Senior Account Manager in an Advertising Agency or similar environment
• Proficiency in Office 365 (i.e. Word/Teams/SharePoint/Excel etc.)
• Well versed in Digital
• A good command of the English language (both written and verbal)
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong administrative and organizational skills (well organized)
• Strong numerical skills (financial & budget management experience)
• Ability to multitask (work on multiple tasks at any given time)

Personal Attributes:

• Team player with the ability to work independently
• Ability to remain calm in highly pressurised environment
• Accountable
• Reliable
• Resilient
• Solution driven / problem solver
• Meticulous with attention to detail
• Other: Valid driver’s license (with own vehicle) and comfortable to work on-site

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Platform Architect Manager
Key Responsibilities:

Work with business stakeholders, and solution and system architects to drive holistic technology implementation. Incorporate continuous feedback, fosters design and engineering practices, and drive collaboration around a common vision across domains (functional, application, data, infrastructure). You will have the chance to work across a broad range of projects that enable the business to scale, bring new products to market and delight customers.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

•  Analysis of the architecture and specifications of the solution.
•  Definition of the integration strategy and the definition of the incremental construction roadmap of the solution
•  Management of the integration team in Agile mode (Scrum) to ensure the proper execution with the team of all integration work
•  Capitalization of good practices and participation in progress actions
•  Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, IT engineering, or a related field.
•  7 – 10 relevant experience years developing technologies
•  Experience in systems engineering
•  Prior knowledge of the ICT ecosystem
•  A first approach to system modelling.
•  A technological curiosity and a good team spirit to work with an international team.
•  Experience in solution architecture
•  Basic knowledge of security (PKI, certificate, firewall, ...) and IT infrastructure: OS (Windows, Linux, Unix), virtualized environments, network, high availability, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), Docker, Kubernetes
•  Good knowledge of Java software development, J2EE, JBOSS application servers, C++, and databases: Oracle Solutions, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
•  Ability to interface with the client management and technical teams and maintain a good professional relationships.

Qualifications
Why join us?

•  We are a top employer in South Africa with certified excellence in employee conditions
•  We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues
•  You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools
•  Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards
•  You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends
•   You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live

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Job Description
Client & Project: British Telecom is a leading telecommunications company, with the EE Omnishop marketplace project focused on providing a seamless digital shopping experience for customers.

• As a Content Designer you are responsible for creating & designing digital content solutions for the EE Omnishop marketplace project. You will execute top-quality design from concept to delivery.
•  Develop digital storyboards & animation
•  Animate & edit videos
•  Present ideas & concepts articulately & confidently
•  Align to media & advertising trends & best practice

Qualifications/Experience:

•  Relevant tertiary qualification
•  Min 5 yrs exp as a Social Content/Media Designer in an Advertising Agency
•  Proficient in Office 365, Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects
•  Well versed in Digital, excellent digital design, graphic & typographic skills
•  Ability to work under pressure, conscientious and accountable for own actions and output
•  Resilient, reliable, "Out of the box" thinker

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent

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Job Description
Client & Project: British Telecom is a leading telecommunications company, with the EE Omnishop marketplace project aimed at providing a seamless shopping experience for customers.

As a Mid-Level Social Copywriter, you will create engaging and effective content for the EE Omnishop marketplace.

•  Write copy across all channels
•  Edit & proofread copy to ensure standards are met
•  Use SEO principles to maximize content reach & search rankings
•  Source images & other content
•  Keep abreast of digital & advertising best practice

Qualifications/Experience/Skill:

•  Tertiary qualification in Digital/Copywriting
•  Proficient in MS Office365
•  Min 5 yrs experience as a Digital Copywriter in an Ad Agency or Digital Ad Agency (focussing on social content/media)
•  Well versed in Digital & all things social media
•  Strong presentation & multitasking skills
•  Team player with the ability to work independently
•  Creative “out-the-box” thinker, proactive, resilient, accountable, reliable

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent

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Job Description

• Responsibilities Collaborate with the wider creative team to develop visually captivating motion design content.
• Integrate content from various sources and components, ensuring a cohesive and visually appealing end product.
•  Craft eye catching and relevant animated creative work across the brand brief.
• Analyse visual prototypes and provide valuable insights to enhance the quality and effectiveness of motion design projects.

Qualifications

• Experience Skill Tertiary qualification in Design Motion Graphics Animation
• Proficient in Office 365
• Min 5 years as a Motion Graphics Designer in an Advertising Agency or in a similar environment i.e.
• Radio Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, 3D Max, Google SketchUp, 3D design software Produce storyboards
• A showreel showcasing motion graphics including 2D 3D live action and experimentation

Qualifications

• degree or equivalent