Principal Job Responsibilities (Duties include, but are not limited to):

• Manage the development and implementation of PR and digital marketing plans for up to five Tech clients simultaneously (with your team of course)
• Drive key media coverage for your clients with the support of a journalist writer and media relations specialist
• Coordinate and manage Digital marketing campaigns for optimum results with our digital team
• Know and understand how to quantify value using digital reporting tools
• Quality assure delivery of the team and its outputs including proposals and pitches
• Monitor expenditures against budgets to ensure targets are met
• Monthly reporting
• Administration of accounts (records, billing, etc.)

Qualifications and Experience:

• Matric – essential
• Relevant tertiary qualification. Degree essential
• Ten+ years’ relevant Tech PR/ Digital Marketing working experience – essential
• Solid understanding of local tech landscape – essential
• Existing tech and business media relations – critical
• Press and digital writing experience – advantageous
• Experience using Google Workspace – advantageous

Benefits (all only after probation):

• Prioritising work-life balance. No weekend work or after hours work encouraged
• Payment of market-related salaries and annual increases
• Annual performance bonuses driven by the achievement of Key Performance Indicators – given that the company makes its targets too.
• We have a 19-year track record of paying annual bonuses for staff that meet KPIs
• Annual performance and career discussions
• Personal career development plans. Focus on individual career development
• Training – monthly at various levels including leadership training for those selected
• Knowledge sharing sessions monthly presented by internal or external resources
• Access to industry and PR related events (budget allocated per individual)
• Bonus leave over the Christmas and New Year period bringing total leave to 20 days per annum
• Bonus leave on birthdays
• Ad hoc and ex gratia reward and recognition thank you like flowers and/or vouchers and duvet days
• Flexible work hours policy. T&Cs apply. This is a remote working position
• Tribe incentive policy which is customised to each individual’s motivators and reward requirements
• An incredible client base who truly value our service offering. We don’t tolerate abusive client (or staff) relationships and you are protected from this at DUO at all times
• Respect and integrity are critical to our ecosystem..

Personal development responsibilities (continual):

• Proactively remain abreast of ICT trends and industry knowledge
• Self-study search in order to develop both technical and soft skills
• Actively knowledge-share with colleagues