Brand Communication Executive

Greensprings School is an independent, non-partisan, day and boarding school for boys and girls from 18 months - 18 years. We encourage students to be lifelong learners by instilling in them great confidence, respect and a consciousness of the needs of society.

Greensprings School is recruiting to fill the positions below:

 
Job Position: Brand Communication Executive
Job Location: Lagos
Job Summary
Reports to the Head of Corporate Strategy. Be responsible for providing media insights and foresights that will be used to create a strategic foundation to achieve the following objectives:

  • Increase in student population, Increase of international students, Increase in boarding population.Contributes to the school objective of ranking as one of the top 5 schools in Africa
  • Plan and execute all website, SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, social media and display advertising campaigns
  • Plan and execute marketing campaigns for admissions and entrance examination.
  • Identify opportunities for marketing/PR that can lead to the primary objective of increasing student population
  • Offline review of target markets segments and activities within the organisation for PR worthy events
  • Measuring and reporting on the performance of all digital marketing campaigns
  • Design, build and maintain the school’s social media presence
  • Create and adopt a system to engage and track leads generated from acquisition channels
  • Plan, execute, and measure experiments and conversion tests
  • Collaborate with internal teams to create landing pages and optimize user experience
  • Utilize strong analytical ability to evaluate end-to-end customer experience across multiple channels and customer touch points
  • Instrument conversion points and optimize user funnels
  • Develop strategic relationships with agencies and other vendor partners
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations where necessary
  • Engage in physical sales calls to feeder schools and targeted high profile housing estates
  • Measure and report performance of all digital marketing campaigns, and assess against set goals (ROI and KPIs)
  • Identify trends and insights, and optimize spend and performance based on the insights
  • Website audit, review and regular updates
  • Generation of content and clever writing for the school’s blog
  • Explore partnership opportunities that can lead to increase in top of mind awareness and also generate leads for follow-up

Requirements

  • B.Sc. degree in Marketing or a related Social Science field
  • Proven working experience in digital marketing
  • Solid knowledge of website analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, NetInsight, Omniture, WebTrends)
  • Working knowledge of ad serving tools (e.g., DART, Atlas)
  • Experience in setting up and optimizing Google Adwords campaigns
  • Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development and constraints
  • Strong analytical skills and data-driven thinking
  • Up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in online marketing and measurement
  • The candidate should have a strong grasp of current marketing tools and strategies
  • Must be able to lead integrated digital marketing campaigns from concept to execution
  • Proven working experience in relationship management
  • Demonstrable experience leading and managing SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, social media and/or display advertising campaigns
  • Highly creative with experience in identifying target audiences and devising digital campaigns that engage, inform and motivate
  • Experience in optimizing landing pages and user funnels
  • This person must be organized, resourceful, creative, and have strong interpersonal skills.