Social Media Officer

POSITION TITLE: Social Media Officer

LOCATION: Remote Online

REPORTS TO: Head of Communications

DURATION: 3 – 6 months (extendable on mutual consent), 12 hours/week

Open date: 15th February 2021

Closing date: 7th March 2021

Approximate starting date:  On a rolling bases

Language: English only

Salary: Volunteer position

The Opportunity:

The Social Media Officer will be a vital and key member of the ASCOA team and your work will involve social media support.

You are creative but also detail oriented. You are always happy to help where you can. You are a team player and are quick to do what needs to be done to achieve team goals.

This role will give you a variety of skill building opportunities including social impact, communications, social media and project management. This is a remote, unpaid role and will report to the Founder of ASCOA.

Who We Are:

The Association for Community Awareness (ASCOA) is an International NGO with headquarters in Buea, Cameroon (https://ascoa-cm.org/). ASCOA offers robust volunteer opportunities for young professionals and students looking to broaden their knowledge and skills in their field of study and community development.

The Role:

• Creation and development of various materials for social media, web, presentation, and other marketing collateral
• Strengthen and extend ASCOA’s brand guidelines and visual “voice”
• Creating, retouching, editing, and manipulating graphic and written elements for multi-departmental using ASCOA account with CANVA
• Updates and integration with website content
• Planning, implementing, managing and monitoring ASCOA’s Social Media strategy to increase brand awareness, improve marketing efforts and increase sales
• Work in collaboration with the ASCOA communication team.
• Create actionable plans to grow and maintain followers
• Manage and oversee all social media content
• Measure success of every social media campaign

 

Requirements:

• Excellent communication and organizational skills with an ability to multitask
• Ability to develop creative social media content
• Knowledge of various social media platforms
• Social media-savvy and understands social media trends
• Able to combine creative campaign ideas with analytical skills to create successful posts
• Proactive with an ability to work in a team
• Excellent interpersonal skills, energy, and initiative
• Basic Microsoft office knowledge – Word, Excel, Power Point
• Bachelor’s degree or pursuing an education in graphic design, communication, or related field, or equivalent experience

Benefits:

As a volunteer there is no financial compensation. Volunteer perks include:

• A Certificate at the end of your volunteer period with ASCOA
• Feature on the ASCOA website.
• Have ASCOA corporate email.
• Network with ASCOA´s members and other volunteer’s both UN volunteer and non-UN.
• Offer of referee/recommendation letter after the volunteering position taken with ASCOA.
• Represent ASCOA in any event both national and international

• Expand your network. You get to work as a part of an innovative, global and diverse team and expand your network
• Be part of a movement. 
• This role will give you a variety of skill building opportunities including social impact, communications, social media and project management.
• You have the flexibility to set the hours you are able to work every week
• It is a scientific fact that volunteering for a good cause improves your wellbeing!

 

How to Apply:

Please submit a resume/CV, picture and cover letter to: hr@ascoa-cm.org

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.