Social and Content Manager (Remote)

African Development Choices (ADC) is a UK-based Social Enterprise on a mission to reduce poverty in Africa by empowering local communities and their leaders to make more informed choices in the management of public resources so that they can independently meet their own needs for essential services. Improving public resources management is key to establishing a sustainable society. And increasing access to essential services, such as clean water and sanitation, is key to fighting poverty because lack of access to essential services is a root cause of poverty.

We achieve this using our unique approach to reduce poverty as follows

• Set better precedent
• Raise expectations
• Increase public participation
• Improve management of public resources
• Increase access to essential services
  
  

By delivering access to essential services through our donor-funded community projects, we set better precedents in the management of public resources and the delivery of essential services. Then we raise expectations through education and support and mobilise communities to play an active and informed role in the management of public resources so that they can enact change for themselves. We achieve this by sharing information from our projects that provides a new perspective. It’s not the information that empowers communities to participate; it’s raised expectations from a new perspective.

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African Development Choices (ADC) is a UK-based Social Enterprise on a mission to reduce poverty by empowering communities to make more informed choices in the management of public resources.

ADC’s purpose is to enable communities to independently meet their needs for essential services, such as clean water and safe sanitation and improve lives in Africa.

At ADC we encourage a working culture of seeking and giving input, showing and taking initiative, and commitment to the organisation and its purpose.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a volunteer Social & Content Manager to join ADC.

Main purpose of job (brief summary) Develop and implement our social media & content strategy in order to increase our online presence and drive stakeholder engagement.

Who reports to this position N/A

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop a content calendar across all social platforms ensuring a constant supply of relevant content (1 post per week on LinkedIn, Facebook & Instagram – initially)
• Collate content for, prepare and publish the monthly volunteer newsletter through MailChimp
• Identify and engage with key social influencers to create beneficial relationships and strong networks and grow the ADC brand
• Perform social listening across all social platforms by monitoring and responding to relevant brand mentions and identifying opportunities for engaging in related topics/discussions
• Define social media KPIs, measure and optimize social media performance metrics, and develop enhanced reporting
• Manage and oversee social media content
• Develop and implement E2E fundraising campaigns in collaboration with the fundraising team
  
  

Essential

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• 3+ years of experience in social and content management
• Experience using MailChimp or similar software
• Experience in designing, managing and executing successful fundraising campaigns
• Excellent knowledge of Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and other social media platforms
• Experience of forming relationships with key influencers on social media
• Good understanding of SEO metrics and social media KPIs
• Ability to come up with creative content (text, image and video)
• Available to volunteer at least 7 hours a week
• Ability to actively take initiative and help set things up in a start-up environment
• Ability to actively seek and give input in a collaborative team environment
• A committed team player with good communication skills.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience of establishing online communities on social media
• Experience working in an early stage start up and gone through a scaling phase
• Passion for the start-up life and comfortable in a role with a little ambiguity
  
  

What ADC Offers You

This is a volunteer, remote and unpaid position with the following benefits

• Professional learning and career development opportunities
• An opportunity to build on your work experience within your profession
• An opportunity to be part of a diverse team representing different parts of the world that is helping to deliver systemic social change in Africa
• An opportunity to help shape a start-up social enterprise
• We provide work reference
  
  

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Here at African Development Choices, we celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our teams are made up of people from all over the world and we welcome all applications. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition, and you require any reasonable adjustments for your application with us, please let us know by contacting [email protected].