English/French Copywriter for Congo Brazzaville (Part-Time)
Upstream, Congo
Job Description
The company
Upstream, the leading mobile technology company, provides innovative solutions that offer seamless and secure mobile Internet access to 1.2 billion consumers in high-growth markets. Upstream’s Zero-D service provides free access to the internet essentials to 250 million users in Latin America and Africa even when they have run out of data. Its award-winning security platform, Secure-D, in 2019 alone, processed over 1.7 billion mobile transactions, detecting, and blocking over 98,000 malicious apps in 20 countries. Upstream’s all-in-one digital marketing platform, One-D, simplifies the digital user acquisition journey by managing the entire recruitment process, including partners and digital marketing channels, and safeguards mobile subscribers against all fraudulent activity. Its team counts 330 people of over 25 nationalities, working from nine offices around the globe. Upstream works with more than 60 mobile operators in over 45 countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and SE Asia.
The role
Have you ever received a marketing text message and either deleted it right away or thought that you could have done it better? This is your chance! The copywriter works in a creative partnership with the campaign manager to conceive, develop, and produce effective messages for mobile marketing campaigns. The copywriter is responsible for writing fun and compelling messages that sound as if they are coming from a real person, not a machine. These texts can establish an on-going virtual dialogue with participants, convince them to take action, or keep them entertained. Messages can reach a wide audience so the writing style must be broadly appealing, use persuasive, natural language, and reflect the copywriter’s deep understanding of his or her culture. What can you do with 160 characters or less?
Main responsibilities
- Meeting with the Performance Marketing Team to discuss client requirements and background of the mobile marketing campaign.
- Writing clear, persuasive, and original messages/scripts to advertise a variety of products and services and engage consumers.
- Carefully proofreading to check spelling and grammar in English and French.
- Using the company’s CMS (Content Management Systems) on a daily basis.
- Daily monitoring of participants’/end-users’ replies towards the campaigns to ensure Customer Care compliance.
- Keeping up to date with popular culture and trends.
- Cooperate with several teams (Digital Media/Content) to provide translations amp; support processes
The role will be based in Congo Brazzaville
Requirements
- Native in English and French.
- Degree in copywriting, journalism/marketing, or related fields
- Minimum 1-2 years of working experience in copywriting/journalism (for websites, newspaper, magazines, advertising agencies)/online marketing or advertising
- Highly creative and imaginative, and curious about clients' products or services
- Skilled in writing clear, concise, and grammatically correct articles
- Understand the different language styles that appeal to various target markets
- Good computer skills (MS Office) and a good internet connection
- Up to date with Congo's current affairs, society, popular culture
- Work well in a team and with a range of creative people
- Able to work under pressure, self-motivated and well organized
Benefits
We offer a competitive base salary and benefits, directly dependent on the candidate’s qualifications and skills. The real excitement comes from working closely with a dynamic, smart, agile and highly motivated team in a competitive and fast-paced environment.
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