VACANCY: Supervisor - Marketing & PR (Worcester)
The Western Cape Blood Service is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to collect, process and distribute blood and blood products of the highest standards in the Western Cape.
A vacancy exists for a Supervisor - Marketing & PR (Paterson Grade C1) in our Worcester Regional Branch
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