Position: Multimedia Associate
Job Code:MA/MM/130607
Number of vacancies: 1
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Summary
Our
client designs, manufactures and sells highly functional, highly
affordable vehicles as transportation platform empowering local
entrepreneurs to mobilize the developing world. They recognize that
appropriate transport is a key enabler to socio-economic development in
deprived communities across
the developing world and aim to unlock this vast
potential by designing, manufacturing and selling a new vehicle for
Africa, starting in Kenya.
They are looking for exceptional
individuals who share their vision and possess the skills and attitude
necessary to make a valuable contribution to our work in Africa.
Job Objective:
•
They are seeking a minimum two year commitment from an exceptional
early career photo and video professional to lead multimedia strategy
and development for our international automotive brand – a truly unique
opportunity to create impact on a global scale.
• The role will
require a working relationship with the venture’s CEO, Marketing
Associate, Organization Associate and the Design, Sales and Operations
teams. Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
Primary Responsibilities
Photography:
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Conceptualize photographs that effectively convey the client’s story,
social impact and select aspects of our operations – including the team,
customer, build process and product.
• Capture photographs of the
client’s product, team, operations, environment and customer experience
coordinating all associated logistics to ensure a smooth stakeholder
process.
• Shortlist and edit photographs to world-class standards
and ensure consistent alignment with the high-quality clients’ brand.
•
Organize all photographic content in a clear and systematic structure,
ensuring easy and timely access to content across the organization.
Videography:
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Conceptualize and storyboard video projects and films that effectively
and compellingly convey the client’s story, social impact and select
aspects of our operations.
• Capture high-quality video and audio
footage as part of agreed video projects and direct stakeholders to
deliver associated content sequences against storyboard.
• Edit
video footage to world-class standards and pair with appropriate audio
content, ensuring consistent alignment with the high-quality client’s
brand.
• Conduct and film professional interviews with members of
the client’s team, our customers, specific suppliers and other select
industry partners.
• Organize all video content in a clear and
systematic structure, ensuring easy and timely access to content across
the organization.
Social Media:
• Document
stories from customers and end-users of our vehicles through written
word, photography, graphic design, music and videography.
• Develop and lead our social media strategy, including defining content schedules and managing media partners.
•
Create professional, compelling and thought-provoking content for
social media through channels such as Twitter, Facebook, SMS and the
client’s motors blog.
• Maintain our overarching social media
presence, ensuring continual feed of appropriate information and timely
engagement with our followers.
• Support Marketing Associate to
design still image advertisements for publication in local and global
magazines, websites and outdoor media.
• Support Marketing
Associate to develop professional video deliverables for product
advertisements on national television and online.
• Support
Marketing Associate in the design and development of appealing
automotive brochures and fliers that effectively communicate the values
of the client’s brand.
• Support Organization Associate to create
content for communications with funders and other external stakeholders
on a periodic and ad-hoc basis.
Skills & Certifications
•
An ideal candidate should combine outstanding artistic and design
skills with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work
effectively with a multidisciplinary team.
• They should possess a
strong skill set in setting a creative vision and producing world-class
photographs, videos and marketing literature
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree from a top university worldwide
• Strong and diverse photo/video portfolio (preferably award winning)
• Ability to take ownership and accountability of project timeline and results
• Ability to effectively communicate timelines and project progress with both internal and
• external management teams
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic working environment and work within a diverse team
• Excellent problem solving ability in a cross-functional and multi-cultural environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Extreme patience and a good sense of humor
• Excellent interpersonal skills to work effectively and build rapport with others
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite, including Photoshop, Light room and Illustrator
• Proficiency in professional video editing software such as Final Cut Pro
• Proficiency in Adobe, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Access to your own professional camera equipment (Client’s will not provide this equipment)
• A start-up personality; entrepreneurial, ambitious, independent, systematic attention to detail,
• structured thinker, goal oriented, flexible, and able to deal well with setbacks
• Comfort with spending 10-25% of time traveling within East Africa, possibly on short notice,
• and into rural areas (camping when necessary)
Experience
• 2+ years’ experience in photojournalism, media, creative design, photography or film
Desired:
• 4+ years related experience in photojournalism, media, creative design, photography or film
• Fluency in Kiswahili (the national language of Kenya)
How To Apply:
Interested
candidates holding the necessary requirements, good performance and /
or references are encouraged to apply with detailed CV’s, inclusive of
names and contacts of 3 referees, current telephone number and email
address by scrolling down and clicking on: Multimedia Associate