Supervisor - Marketing & PR (Worcester) at Western Cape Blood Service

Main Purpose of the Job

• Maintain an existing blood donation clinic portfolio and establish new partnerships and opportunities to enable a sufficient, and safe blood supply.
• Implement effective short-term and long-term marketing strategies to ensure that each blood donation clinic performs to its full potential.
• Educate the general public on the importance of blood donation.
• Nurture and maintain the vital relationship between our blood donor clinic representatives and the organisation. 
• Prioritise the recruitment of new blood donors at both existing and new blood donor clinics.

Responsibilities include but is not limited to:

• Plan and implement marketing campaigns (which includes branding opportunities, awareness drives and activations).
• Set-up and breakdown of appropriately branded activations and actively recruit donors to increase our donor base.
• Conduct and arrange various talks, presentations and awareness exhibitions.
• Prepare and distribute branding and other promotional material to ensure maximum brand and blood donation clinic awareness.
• Actively participate in team meetings to achieve the common goal of ensuring a safe and sufficient blood supply.
• Accurate, daily communication to various stakeholder via emails and telephone.
• Perform marketing strategies to improve clinics.
• Actively seek opportunities for new clinics.
• Actively seek branding and awareness opportunities.
• Write articles for various publications such as internal newsletters and community newspapers.
• Actively contribute content for publication on social media.
• Regular travelling

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Matric Certificate
• National Diploma/Degree in Public Relations/Marketing/Communications or equivalent qualification
• Computer literate
• Excellent written communication skills
• Meticulous when it comes to meeting deadlines.
• Bilingual (Speak and write English and Afrikaans)
• Self Motivated
• An unendorsed code 08 driver’s licence