GVI Planet is hiring a
Reports to: Head of Brand Communications
Working location: Hoedspruit
Optional: Live on campus
Start date: ASAP
About GVI
Looking to find a real purpose in your career again? At GVI, our teams bring a range of specialised skills together for a common goal: supporting a more sustainable future.
GVI is an international multi-award-winning social enterprise. We offer conservation and community development programs in 13 countries, all aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and led by our teams and experts from the communities we operate in.
Working at GVI is fast-paced and fun. We value passion, authenticity and innovation, and we treat our stakeholders with compassion and respect.
About the role
The goal of the Social Media Manager is to take Bushwise’s social media presence to the next level. You will create dynamic content featuring wildlife, safari, location, human and conservation stories to help grow the Bushwise brand across our social platforms. This role is also responsible for delivering excellent customer service via community engagement, and reporting on social insights to the business.
Role and responsibilities:
Social expert
Bring the latest insights and best practices to Bushwise to help grow our social reach and engagement
Actively monitor social media for breaking news and trending topic opportunities and join these conversations quickly
Social strategy
Videography and photography
Student and trainer content
Live content
Content planning and efficiency
Community engagement
YouTube
Bushwise ambassador
About you
If you are ambitious, purpose-driven, and you have a great sense of humour, we want to meet you. As an organisation, we know that welcoming a broad range of people with unique identities makes us a more powerful workforce and we are committed to evolving our diversity, equity and inclusion practice.
Personal attributes:
Professional skills and experience:
Benefits
We’re not interested in empty perks like having a coffee culture. We do have coffee – if you join our central team in Cape Town, you could find yourself roped into coffee and snack challenges if you visit the office, but you could just as easily be taking your morning coffee at Roots cafe, high in the mountains of northern Thailand if you work on a base. Here’s what our global team enjoys:
You can find out more about the type of work GVI does and who we are as an organisation here.
To apply
Please send your CV, Portfolio, LinkedIn link along with a cover letter stating why you feel you would be best suited to this position at GVI.
Please note: We will do our utmost to respond to all applicants, however, given the large volume of applications we receive, this isn't always possible. If you do not hear back from us within three-four weeks, please take it that on this occasion your application was unsuccessful.