Nigeria Solidarity Support Fund (NSSF) is an innovative platform for resource mobilization. Primarily established to supplement efforts to mitigate the adverse economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Nigerians by supporting vulnerable members of the population, strengthening the country’s healthcare system and reskilling the Nigerian workforce for a post-pandemic world.
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Experience: 6 years
- Location: Lagos
- Job Field: Media / Advertising / Branding
SUMMARY
The Communications Manager will lead marketing and communication for the NSSF, managing PR and delivering marketing campaigns end-to-end. S/he will shape the organization’s profile, andncommunicate the NSSF brand through fundraising-led marketing, partnerships, brand and issue related campaigns, events and other marketing activities.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Grow the NSSF audience – reaching set targets for engagement
- Plan, coordinate and execute the marketing strategy for campaigns; ensuring it is truly Nigerian whilst still benchmarking against global best practice.
- Manage all marketing activities, email, social, content, product, PR, comms, creative and project management of campaigns
- Oversight of all creative assets from outsourced agencies and localization of global tools and assets
- To entrench NSSF, as a national, regional, and global thought leader in delivering her three core objectives.
- Management of marketing budget to execute paid media spanning OOH, radio, print, digital, social media and other marketing activities such as stunts
- Negotiation and delivery of in-kind and barter deals for paid media, building key partnerships and relationships across all of the media industry
- Recommend and implement strategic marketing partnerships that support fundraising and growth goals including working with events, influencers, and media partners.
- Monitor the metrics of programs/campaigns, collect and analyze social and digital insights, reporting metrics internally where required.
- Conduct market research and compile findings to inform campaign activities
- Implement and execute Influencer strategies to increase the branding and reach of the NSSF
- Improve touch points across the donor journey of the NSSF website in content manager
SKILLS
- Proficiency in English
- A creative at heart: Excellent oral communication and copywriting skills with an eye for design and the ability to pitch NSSF, meet new donors and partners, sell our organization, engage social influencers etc.
- Proven knowledge and expertise in paid marketing strategies, social ads and influencer marketing strategies that drive growth and engagement
- Self-starter who can work independently, with a small team and with international partners based outside of Nigeria.
- Digitally fluent across all social platforms
- Experience and knowledge of data and analytics to inform decision making
- Strong market and cultural knowledge with a passion for and an interest in social advocacy
- Strong teamwork skills, comfortable in a highly collaborative, dynamic team culture
- Positive and driven, curious and creative about learning new ways to approach branding and marketing with ‘outside of the box’ thinking for NSSF.
- Proficient at managing and maximizing budgets and resources
REQUIRED QUALIFICATION(S)
- B.Sc. or HND in a related field
- 6years+ of Marketing and communication experience (agency, lifestyle brand, media, music industry, digital, start ups)
- Certifications in comms related field
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: [email protected] using the position as subject of email.
