ROLE:   Content Manager

REPORTING: Creative Director

DEPARTMENT:  Digital

AGENCY: Ogilvy Africa

LOCATION: Uganda

 

OGILVY AFRICA – COMPANY OVERVIEW

Ogilvy Africa is the largest network agency on the continent catering to more than 40 countries with a team of 900 people across Central, East and West Africa. Our regional office is based in Nairobi – Kenya, where we house a portfolio of over 100 brands for clients such as AB InBev, Airtel, Bajaj, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Equity Bank, European Union, KFC, Mastercard, NCBA, Nestle, Philips, PWC, Total Energies, UNICEF, Unilever and WWF amongst others.

Our distinctive positioning and proposition are key for times, when clients desire a partner to help them realize their growth ambitions or to get back to growth. No one knows Africa like we do, with a footprint to deliver in countries that matter to our clients.

This proposition is anchored on true shared value, what our world needs now, creating human (societal) value, employee value and commercial value. This proposition cuts across our key mega-businesses ABC (Advertising, Branding and Content), Experience (including CRM and e-commerce), PR & Influence and Media (focussed on performance marketing).

In addition, we’ve created proprietary marketing products in areas such as real-time marketing, social intelligence, performance marketing, e-commerce enablement and content hubs. Our unique operating model, One Ogilvy, allows clients and brands to cut the complexity of agency structures and create seamless omni-channel experiences for their consumers, across touchpoints. Fuelled by the holy trinity of content, data, and technology; Ogilvy Africa strives to be the best-practice agency model, for Developing & Emerging markets.

In our 20+ years in Africa, we have won the highest number of regional and global awards for the region including Cannes Lions, Clio awards, Dubai Lynx Festival, SABRE Awards (Global and Africa), Loeries and WARC, to name a few.

Ogilvy is a leading global network of WPP. Launched by David Ogilvy over 75 years ago, it is referred-to as the Agency of Giants, by several industry experts. 2023 WARC rankings named Ogilvy, the #1 creative network in the world.

 

JOB PURPOSE – SUMMARY

Content managers ensure the right content will appear at the right time at the right place on the site they supervise. The job includes editing text and images so that they appear on the website at the optimum size and quality.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Enforcing quality assurance policies and procedures through, but not limited to, Creative X & DCH

• Ensuring that copy is clear and consistent, complete and credible.

• Ensuring that text is well written and logically structured.

• Ensuring that all grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors are fixed.

• Working closely with art team & strategy team, and suggesting changes to enhance content readability, conciseness and style.

• Double checking that names, places and organizations are spelled properly and that facts, dates and statistics are accurate.

• Checking and confirming that captions and post details are correct and factual.

• Signing off all content before it’s posted online or shared with client.

• Write, edit and produce engaging content for publication via various digital media platforms.

• Select, brief, manage and evaluate work with production houses and media agencies where required.

• Work closely with global digital team on each brand to ensure messaging is consistent across markets

• Use Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and other digital tools and platforms to engage our customers and consumers as needed

• Developing and implementing a digital content strategy to achieve brand objectives

• Maintaining and elevating the brand’s tone of voice and persona online

 

PROFESSION, TECHNICAL SKILL AND PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Multiple (5+) years of related business experience, preferably in marketing, corporate communications, public relations or as a professional journalist,

• Demonstrated excellence in developing and executing PR strategies that produce measurable results

• Superior verbal and written communication skills with outstanding attention to detail

• Hands-on knowledge of all PR processes and developing and pitching stories

• Blogger experience preferred Experience writing for the digital space

• BA/BS degree or higher required, emphasis in communication, journalism, PR or marketing preferred

• Experience using digital/social media as a reporting and engagement tool

• Ideally have experience with word press ideally, and e-commerce experience.

• Excellent oral and presentation skills, including ability to think on one’s feet

• Ability to write in a clear, concise and interesting manner.

• Ability to conceptualize new ideas quickly.

 

LOCATION

• FEED works as a combination of ON and OFFSITE work-frame. So, you will be required to work from client office locations and Ogilvy offices from time to time.

 

BELIFES AT OGILVY

• People need regular OS upgrades: Even the best OS will be obsolete tomorrow unless its constantly upgrades. same is true for people.

• We need more cows than milk men: We are a culture of practitioners, not manager. We contribute before we comment.

• Creative about creativity: Creativity is, and will always be, our differentiator. Creativity now includes holy trinity of Data -Content -Tech

• Diversity is a competitive advantage: New profiles, new skills, new styles of leadership make us a stronger company.

• Collaborative advantage > Competitive advantage: Find partners who are on top of their game at the skillset we need. It’s the only way to scale at the speed without pretending to have all the answers.

• Team Individual: You get a lot more done when everyone stops worrying about who gets credit at the end. Teams Succeed, individuals fail.

• Fail often, fail fast: We see intrapreneur in all our people and encourage a culture of pilots. Test, succeed and scale; or fail-fast learn, learn from the failure and start something new.

 

HOW TO APPLY

Ogilvy Africa is an equal opportunity employer that believes in diversity as a competitive advantage. We are committed to a fair and inclusive hiring process. To minimise unconscious biases from our hiring process, we’ve taken on an initiative to #RightTheCV (find out more by clicking here)

If your career aspirations match this exciting opportunity, please complete this application form to apply.

 

Closing Date: February 17, 2025