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Step into a Public Relations Officer role in Standerton and make your mark across Mpumalanga. The team is hiring now and wants to hear from sharp, committed candidates.
Overview
The Public Relations Officer position is part of an ongoing recruitment drive across Mpumalanga. The brief has been shaped carefully, with a focus on delivery in Standerton and across the marketing jobs space.
Importantly, the organisation keeps reporting lines clean and expectations realistic. Performance is measured against a small, agreed set of metrics, and there are no surprise yardsticks for the Public Relations Officer taking on this position.
Stakeholders for this position include line managers, peers across the marketing jobs team and trusted external partners. Building those relationships early makes the next twelve months in Standerton much easier.
Your Team
Importantly, the team you will be working with is fast-paced and energetic. Things move quickly across the Standerton office, and the people who thrive here are the ones who plan ahead, communicate openly and pick up the slack when Mpumalanga operations get busy.
Collaboration is the default working mode. Whether picking up a quick query or working through a complex project, you will find colleagues willing to lean in and help.
On top of that, the team structure and working relationships for this role in Standerton will be explained during the hiring process.
Day in the Life
You usually start by scanning campaign dashboards over coffee, checking performance against targets and flagging anything that needs attention. Mornings are often given to creative work — briefing designers, refining copy, planning the next content drop — while afternoons mix stakeholder meetings, agency calls and a steady stream of approvals. In between, you’re watching what competitors are doing, listening to what customers are saying online, and shaping the next set of experiments to push the brand forward.
Beyond that, the rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when Mpumalanga operations throw up the unexpected.
Crucially, the Standerton office buzzes through peak hours and settles into focused, productive lulls in between, giving you time to plan and reset before the next stretch of work.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Plan and execute integrated marketing campaigns across digital and traditional channels
- Brief and manage external creative, media and PR agencies
- Test, learn and iterate on creative, channels and audience targeting
- Monitor brand reputation and respond to customer comments online
- Manage email marketing journeys, segmentation and lifecycle automation
- Support sales teams with collateral, presentations and trade activations
- Manage paid media budgets across Google, Meta and LinkedIn
Candidate Profile
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills appropriate to the role
- Creative thinker who can also analyse data and report on ROI
- Awareness of POPIA and consumer protection requirements
- Solid understanding of SEO and content marketing principles
- Ability to work cross-functionally with sales, design and product teams
- Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Marketing, Communications or related field
If most of these boxes are ticked, you are encouraged to put your name forward.