Marketing Executive Job Vacancy at Duma Works in Kenya October 2015

Marketing Executive at Duma Works

Job Overview: Are you a curious digital marketing and PR person who loves being in the center of it all both in the real world and the digital world?

Do you have a knack for grammar and key words?

Have you met some of your best friends over Twitter and feel pretty AMAZING about that?

Does planning events and meeting new people make you want to do a happy dance?

Do you want to take what job matching looks like in the WORLD to the next level?

Then you might be the right person for us!

Duma Works is building a world-class job matching brand, and we’re looking for a skilled and experienced marketing executive to help us take things to the next level.

As a marketing executive at Duma Works you’ll be working with our entire team to come up with the best way to make sure our users and future users have the best interaction with Duma Works as possible.

You will spearhead our marketing activities and have creative room to innovate, try crazy things, and take our brand to the next level.

Duma Works is a young, and incredibly energetic company that treats our users like kings and queens – while helping them connect with their next hire or dream job.

Through social media engagement, events planning, and content creation, you will shape the Duma Works brand into the thought leader for jobs in Africa.

If you love the thought of this, can’t wait to start experimenting with fun, creative activities, and love thinking about how different partnerships can fit together like puzzle pieces, this is an amazing job for you.

Desired Skills & Experience

If you start at Duma Works, you will:

Plan and execute on our social media marketing strategy
Proactively plan Duma Works events and other activities
Create lasting partnerships with organizations that share our vision
Interpret analytics about effective marketing channels to shape strategy

You will need:

Experience building a brand through digital media
Experience in PR and communications
Experience planning events and building partnerships
Boundless creative energy and a love of testing new things

It will definitely be useful if you have:

Experience working in a startup environment
Experience in building a blog following
Experience in PR
Extensive knowledge of LinkedIn
A large following on social media
Impeccable grammar and engaging writing skills
A great sense of humor

Company Description: DUMA Works is a leading job placement and professional development company, specialising in short term, entry level, and middle management jobs in Kenya.

Since 2012, hundreds of employers all over Kenya have used DUMA Works to save time and money when identifying qualified job candidates. We currently have over 32,000 job seekers in our database and have matched over 3,000 of them to jobs.

Our vision is to create an empowered society where no job opportunities are lost. Our mission stands to be the developing world’s job reference system, and to enrich and empower a global workforce.

The team at DUMA Works includes 12 full-time employees. We work within a mutually supportive, casual environment that still supports hard work, challenges, and personal and professional growth.
How to apply and get more information

If you have any questions regarding this job or if you would like to apply, please don’t hesitate to contact Arielle Sandor on Arielle@dumaworks.com

Applications letters and detailed CV are to be sent by email to apply@dumaworks.com marking the subject as “Marketing Executive 1836”, Your Full name & Phone number. If you don’t follow these instructions, your application will not go through.

N.B. * When applying to any job through Duma Works, you can expect that after you apply, you will receive a confirmation email, and then an SMS alert asking you to take a basic screening test over SMS. The SMS with the test may not arrive immediately. Please be patient. The SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test, and if you ever have any issues with the process, please reach out to 0702093793.