Job Description
Location: Cape Town
Working Practices: Hybrid | Mondays and Thursday in office and remaining days remote (subject to change as per company policies)
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 07H00 - 15H30 SAST
Reports to: Content Marketing Team Lead
Role Summary
The Web Content Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating, developing and publishing a range of content across multiple online channels on behalf of partners, to support the Web Team’s wider goals and timelines. The successful candidate has blog writing, SEO and GEO content writing and optimisation, as well as website copywriting experience.
*This is not a short-form social media content writing role.
Key Responsibilities
- Create, develop, manage, and publish content for the organisation’s web presence
- Supporting SEO/GEO goals in line with the Web Team
- Publish content using a CMS (WordPress experience required*)
- Ensure the quality and consistency of online content to maintain a credible, accurate and consistent voice
- Copy edit and proofread all digital content
- Proactively work and align with key internal and external stakeholders
- Work cooperatively with key external and internal stakeholders
Key relationships:
Sales & Marketing Team
Academic Leadership Team
External Digital agencies
Experience
- Formal qualification in a relevant discipline
- 4-5 years + of relevant experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to write engaging website copy is essential
- Experience with a CMS, WordPress, is essential
- Experience in project management and managing high-level stakeholders
- Content and communications strategy knowledge and implementation skills
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work under tight deadlines
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work with cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated ability in SEO/GEO techniques
- Time management and organisational skills with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
Company Information
OES is a vibrant and values-led organisation, and we are passionate about enhancing lives through education. We work with university partners, training institutes, and professional bodies worldwide, to develop and enable immersive and engaging learning experiences. We empower our teams to be student-focused, innovative, and embrace change with a growth mindset to ensure we achieve our vision of being the world’s most impactful enabler of education. We encourage our people to grow and develop through teamwork and a diverse range of projects, programs and challenging work. We trust our people to deliver, so when you work with OES, you will join a team who are empowered to impact every day.
Company Culture & Values
We are a people-focused organisation with a culture built around collaboration, connection, and working together toward one common goal. Our vibrant, values-led culture is grounded in four core principles that guide everything we do:
Passion and Perseverance: We love what we do (even though it’s not always easy) and take pride in creating transformative learning experiences. We bring a ‘can-do’ attitude to our work, tackling challenges and inspiring others.
Teamwork: We operate as cross-functional teams globally with trust and respect, celebrating success. We have fun while we work and enjoy collaborating with each other and OES partners.
Agility and Innovation: We are innovative, lateral thinkers who use our skills to do things better for our students. We thrive in ambiguity, embrace change and challenge conventional thinking.
Integrity: We do what’s right, and what we say we will do, every time. We value a culture of respectful feedback and believe that respect trumps harmony.
These are some of the benefits you can expect when you join the team:
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Medical allowance
- Commute allowance
- Flexible work for genuine career-life fit
- A healthy and supportive company culture
- Generous annual leave
- Paid maternity and paternity benefits
- Study leave
- Professional development and mentoring
- Construct Culture Club events
- Company funded lunch and drinks every 8 weeks
*Policy T&Cs apply for certain benefits
