Marketing & Communications Officer Jobs – Healthy Entrepreneurs
Job Title: Marketing & Communications officer
Organisation: Healthy Entrepreneurs Uganda
Duty Station: Kampala, Industrial Area, Uganda
About US:
Healthy Entrepreneurs (HE) is a social enterprise working in Uganda, Kenya, Burundi and Tanzania. HE specializes in the implementation of last mile distribution models of reliable health products and information that enhance health and the quality of life for people living in hard to reach and remote areas.
HE is implementing its franchise model by recruiting, training, and distributing to more than 6000 Community Health Entrepreneurs (our customers) in 35 districts of Uganda today. We are growing towards a network of 20.000 customers, serving 95% of rural Uganda by 2024.
If you would like to make a difference in the lives of many, Healthy Entrepreneurs Uganda offers you a unique professional opportunity.
Job Summary: The marketing and communications officer works in our Products & Services team, closely with the manager, product lead, the health team, the sales & operations team and the trainers. Our small team of the Products & Services Departments, consists of the following sub-units:
- Product development and management
- Service development and management
- Insight (Programming, monitoring, evaluation and learning – Data analysis)
- Marketing development and management
The marketing and communications officer understands our market (our Community Health Entrepreneurs and their customers in the villages), understands sentiments of products and audience groups. identifies needs, categorizes target audience groups, and products, translates needs into wants, analyzes markets and organizes data to gain insight to make professional decisions (with Insight colleague/data analyst).
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
The marketing and communications officer manages promotional materials, online platforms and supply chains:
- Budgeting and costing of marketing activities.
- Liaise with global marketing strategy and consultant, to incorporate on a local level.
- Manage printing of the promotion materials, after development. Managing the stock levels of these materials in warehouse.
- Coordinate distribution of these materials through different departments. E.g. the training team, the sales team.
- Together with P&S manager, formulate marketing and communication plan, identify marketing opportunities and ideas.
- Interdepartmental coordination.
- Implement and execute short term plans for marketing and communication
- Monitor progress and performance and impact during pilots and after implementation
- Create fun, interactive marketing campaigns. For instance: share something with a certain # to be able to win something, small quizzes, collect content from CHEs etc.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- At least five years of marketing experience in the private sector, very good understanding of marketing
- Has Digital Marketing Design experience, such as developing posters, and social media post visuals with programs such as Adobe, Canva etc.
- Speaking multiple languages is a big advantage, as well as rural (marketing) experience.
- Another advantage is a health background
Our future colleague will need to possess:
- A good understanding of the concept of social enterprise and entrepreneurship.
- Initiative, proactive, motivated, and energetic and innovative mindset.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Maturity and a high level of interpersonal skills for easy working with the team and motivate customers to change their attitudes where necessary.
- Very good team player, yet able to work independently
- Presentation and training skills
- Organizational and planning skills to manage your time and activities to meet deadlines.
- Learning skills, self-awareness and reflection, and interest in continuous learning and development to improve individual knowledge and skills.
- Transparent and trustworthy.
How to Apply:
For any questions or interest in the job, kindly refer to or send CV and motivation to: nicole@healthyentrepreneurs.nl
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