DIGITAL CONTENT & CHANNEL SPECIALIST: INVESTMENTS
Marketing, Digital, Social Media, Content (Digital / Print / Video)
Southern Suburbs – Western Cape
Previously disadvantaged candidates will be given preference.
Clever content with investment clout!
We have a compelling on-site opportunity for a strategic Digital Content & Channel Specialist with a solid understanding of the investment landscape at a renowned financial services provider in Cape Town.
This is an exciting opportunity to sit at the intersection of digital content, stakeholder engagement, and investment thinking. Working closely with a highly respected investment team, you’ll help shape and coordinate the flow of digital content across channels including LinkedIn, podcasts, video, websites, and thought leadership initiatives – ensuring complex ideas are translated into clear, engaging, audience-relevant formats.
You’ll play a key role in driving content planning, production coordination, and channel execution. From managing podcast pipelines and coordinating shoots to overseeing workflows, approvals, and content delivery, this role is ideal for someone who enjoys bringing structure, momentum, and strategic thinking to digital communication initiatives.
You’ll need a solid grasp of the financial services environment, strong digital fluency, and the ability to manage multiple moving parts while keeping audience engagement front of mind. This is less about copywriting and more about orchestration – ensuring the right content reaches the right audience through the most effective channels.
If you are a digitally savvy Content and Channel specialist with a passion for investment content, this could be your next big opportunity.
Responsibilities
- Own the Institutional Business content pipeline; topics, formats, scheduling, and post-production coordination across podcasts, video, social media, thought leadership, and events.
- Compile clear, well-informed content briefs tailored to specific channels and audiences, including repurposing existing material (reports, presentations, event recordings) into new formats.
- Manage the review and sign-off process, ensuring timely feedback and approvals.
- Act as the primary point of contact with marketing team for all digital and content activity.
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the audience; trustees, asset consultants, fund managers, and institutional allocators — and how they consume content.
- Track performance data across channels and surface actionable insights to inform content decisions.
- Stay current on how the community engages with digital content globally and bring relevant recommendations on format and channel innovation.
- Liaise with the marketing team to ensure implementation aligns with broader digital strategy.
- Manage the podcast content pipeline end-to-end; topic development with internal stakeholders, guest scheduling, briefing, and post-production coordination with marketing.
- Brief and coordinate videographers for thought leadership clips, event highlight reels, and other video content.
- Coordinate event media coverage; brief the marketing team on logistics, requirements, and post-event content needs.
- Consolidate and track digital performance metrics across all channels and content.
- Translate analytics into business-relevant conclusions and present regular updates to guide resource allocation.
- Identify content, channel gaps and recommend corrective action.
- Champion agreed processes for briefing, review, coordination, and approvals across all stakeholders.
- Ensure a consistent and well-managed flow of information, ideas, and content across the team’s business activities and platforms.
Requirements
The successful candidate must have/be:
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Marketing/digital Marketing, Journalism or any related field.
- 4-6 years of experience in a content, digital, or channel management role, ideally within financial services or a related professional service environment.
- Proven track record of managing content pipelines.
- Experience working within or alongside a central marketing function.
- Familiarity with the institutional investment landscape; an understanding of who the audience is and how they think is a significant advantage.
- Content and digital platforms.
- Deep familiarity with LinkedIn.
- Social media management tools
- Exposure to MS Office.
- Content production and Workflow tools.
- Content planning and pipeline management.
- Digital and social media proficiency (platform use, content optimisation).
- Analytical ability; interpreting digital performance metrics, extracting insights and drawing meaningful conclusions.
- Project management; coordinating multiple workstreams effectively.
- Stakeholder collaboration (especially with marketing teams).
- Highly organised and structured.
- Detail-orientated with a strong editorial mindset.
- Curious and intellectually engaged (able to grasp complex investment ideas).
- Adaptable and able to juggle competing priorities.
- Audience-focused; naturally considers how content lands with different stakeholders.
If you don’t have the relevant experience required for this role, please consider your application unsuccessful.
City: Cape Town
Remuneration: Negotiable
Consultant: Tamara
Reference Number: #Tam910
