Entry Level Jobs – Marketing Coordinator – Wefarm
Job Title: Marketing Coordinator
Organization: Wefarm
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Report to: Country Manager, Uganda & Head of Product
About US:
Wefarm is the world’s largest farmer-to-farmer digital network, enables farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas and spread innovation. Utilising the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS. Knowledge shared on Wefarm can help farmers to produce higher quality product, increase yields, gain insight into market pricing, tackle the effects of climate change, diversify agricultural interests, and much more. Since its founding in 2015, Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. We’ve been covered on CNN, the BBC, Wired, TechCrunch, Forbes, the FT and more. The company is headquartered in London with offices in Nairobi and Kampala.
Job Summary: The Marketing Coordinator is an entry level role and the successful candidate will be responsible for overall coordination of marketing and communication related activities for the company in support of commercial, user acquisition and public relations company objectives for Uganda.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Media management
- Media booking and scheduling for TV, radio and online channels.
- Radio schedule calendar posting for internal staff.
- Radio digest/tracker management.
- Media house payments management.
Collateral merchandise production & management
- Facilitate design and production of new collateral materials in line with brand guidelines.
- Manage 3rd party suppliers to make timely deliveries of ordered merchandise.
- Manage distribution of collateral to intended target audiences.
- Manage collateral digest tracker.
- Ensure all relevant purchase documentation is sourced and posted into finance platform for approval.
Events & Activations:
- Plan and execute user acquisition events & marketing campaigns.
- Report and track all user acquisition events.
- Scope for relevant commercial and user acquisition events.
Tracking & Reporting Marketing Activities:
- Monthly reporting of all marketing channel activity performance.
- Monitor and track marketing activities/channels through the tracker and formulate performance interventions based on the data.
Budgeting:
- Participate in budget planning & preparation for key marketing activities.
- Marketing activities budgeting tracking.
Digital management:
- Social media – Content creation and curation management.
- Generate monthly social media performance reports.
- When required help write website, blog and email newsletter content (always coordinated and aligned with the company-wide Comms).
Other:
- Assist with other external and internal communications duties when required.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold an educational background in marketing, business or related course.
- Two years or more experience in similar or sales related role.
- Must have planning and coordination skills.
- Must speak fluent English.
- Experience in social media use and executions.
- Must have basic understanding & speech of Luganda and /or Runyakitara .
- You should be willing to travel around the country occasionally to execute events and radio show interviews as and when required.
N.B. You must have the right to work in Uganda.
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
: List of Current Job Vacancies / Opportunities in Uganda