CapeTownMagazine: Social Media Internships Program 2022

CapeTownMagazine: Invites Unemployed Graduates to Apply for the Social Media Internships Program 2022

Closing Date: 31 March 2022
Job Type: Internship
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Internships Description

Be a part of Cape Town’s most exciting online magazine and learn invaluable industry skills to further your career and passion. You’ll be working with a small, dynamic and dedicated team and share in their mission to create a DNA-changing Impact on the province…through Moments of Joy. To fulfil this mission we need a proactive, driven, go-getting and forever evolving team that strives for industry-leading online media excellence.

This opportunity is for a bright, ambitious digital and social media savvy young person, aspiring to enter the digital industry. You will be working under the guidance of seniors in the content and business team.

Responsibilities:

Under the guidance of our senior editors you will:

• Create and schedule social media posts
• Curate social media feeds
• Create, schedule and publish push notifications
• Community management
• Organise the Weekend Takeover Program
• Take part in brainstorming sessions
• Pitch new ideas, what we call discoveries
• Support to the editorial team and business teams
• Produce content  (from events to features)
• Assists on partner projects
• Assist with feedback reports (capturing stats)
• Research, fact-check and update overviews and put together new overviews
• Conduct interviews, research and collect accurate information for overviews and features
• Source photos and videos and edit pictures using image editing software
• Learn and incorporate SEO best practice into the articles
• Learn and master our content management and production systems

Requirements:

• The ideal candidate is a social media geek, who lives on social media and loves to play around with design, video, tools and apps.
• Has a visual eye and gets excited by learning about the ever-changing social media world.
• Has good English copy writing skills or interest.
• The opportunity best suits a young person ready to start working in digital media and marketing.

Key Competencies:

• Loves digital, social media and social media tools
• Lives on social media platforms (don’t apply if you’re not on social media)
• Keen to learn copywriting for different social media platforms
• Strong researching skills as well as sourcing and curating social media feeds
• Photography skills/Producing reels (advantageous)
• Forever evolving and eager to learn
• Willing to get out of your comfort zone
• Curious, loves to discover
• Excellent knowledge of social media platforms
• Positive attitude
• Likes to be organised and systematic