Supervisor - Marketing & PR (Worcester)

Main Purpose of the Job

• Maintain an existing blood donation clinic portfolio and establish new partnerships and opportunities to enable a sufficient, and safe blood supply.

• Implement effective short-term and long-term marketing strategies to ensure that each blood donation clinic performs to its full potential.

• Educate the general public on the importance of blood donation.

• Nurture and maintain the vital relationship between our blood donor clinic representatives and the organisation.

• Prioritise the recruitment of new blood donors at both existing and new blood donor clinics.

Responsibilities include but is not limited to

• Plan and implement marketing campaigns (which includes branding opportunities, awareness drives and activations).

• Set-up and breakdown of appropriately branded activations and actively recruit donors to increase our donor base.

• Conduct and arrange various talks, presentations and awareness exhibitions.

• Prepare and distribute branding and other promotional material to ensure maximum brand and blood donation clinic awareness.

• Actively participate in team meetings to achieve the common goal of ensuring a safe and sufficient blood supply.

• Accurate, daily communication to various stakeholder via emails and telephone.

• Perform marketing strategies to improve clinics.

• Actively seek opportunities for new clinics.

• Actively seek branding and awareness opportunities.

• Write articles for various publications such as internal newsletters and community newspapers.

• Actively contribute content for publication on social media.

• Regular travelling

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Matric Certificate

• National Diploma/Degree in Public Relations/Marketing/Communications or equivalent qualification

• Computer literate

• Excellent written communication skills

• Meticulous when it comes to meeting deadlines.

• Bilingual (Speak and write English and Afrikaans)

• Self Motivated

• An unendorsed code 08 driver's licence