Marketing Coordinator

Company Profile: candi is a dedicated rooftop solar company for businesses across Asia and Africa. We bring together international capital, through our Swiss-based platform, and local expertise in order to provide a unique offering to this unserved sector. In doing so, candi aims to have a big social impact, reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, increase energy access, and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets. www.candi.solar

Job Summary: The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic Marketing Coordinator, who will help candi to lead the revolution of solar. Given that candi is taking solar into a new realm with a new set of tools, the role will require creativity, innovation and a new way of thinking.

Specifically, the job requires taking ownership of the following for the Global team:

• Attending weekly marketing team status meetings
• Pulling weekly digital stats performance data
• Pulling competitor data (monthly)
• Assessing SquareSpace insights (monthly)
• Ensuring new projects and stats are updated across all our assets (website, portfolio docs, social media) (monthly)
• Managing the info@candi.solar email address: assessing leads and passing on to relevant sales person(s) or other via Salesforce where applicable
• Pulling and assessing leads data from Salesforce
• Assisting with all marketing department activities as and where required, i.e. SEO, Google Ads, Blog, PR, Events, Social Media, Customer Satisfaction Surveys
• Social media management: managing our social media platforms including reverts to online activity, posting organic and paid content
• Managing the implementation of the marketing content calendar
• Liaising with copywriter(s) on key pieces of content that require compilation and/or editing
• Ensuring internal and external marketing tools are regularly updated
• Managing the trusted partner programme (from end Q3 2022)
• Assisting with ad hoc investor communication
• Assisting with pulling stats/insights for strategies
• Drafting ad hoc copy (long and short format)

Location: Cape Town or Johannesburg [combined with working from home]

Hours: Full time.

Job Requirements:

• Diploma or Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications or a similar field.
• 2-3 years of experience in a similar role.
• Knowledge of digital marketing tools.
• Must be very comfortable working in the digital realm, using tools such as Microsoft Office, CRMs and other remote working tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High attention to detail.
• Must be a self-starter and able to independently prioritise tasks,  meet deadlines and come up with proactive solutions to any problems that arise.
• Ability to work well under pressure and to multitask.
• Proactive regarding potential opportunities.
• A team-player, embracing an attitude of “How can I help?”
• Strong analytical skills to analyse metrics/stats and create reports.
• Experience working with LinkedIn Advertising, Google Analytics and Google Ads a plus.

Working Culture:

• You agree to live out the candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego, being authentic no matter what, that we work as one and follow the candi principle that less is more
• A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.
• Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.
• You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.
• candi is an equal opportunities employer.

candi is unique because...

• We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean rooftop solar energy.
• We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
• We are an international team where remote working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.