Marketing Advisor

Requirements

• The ideal candidate should have experience in brand management, as well in designing and implementing successful consumer-facing advertising and retail promotion strategies and campaigns.
  

• You should have experience managing different types of marketing agencies, especially creative, promotion & media agencies and possess an excellent understanding of the media and promotion environment in Uganda.
  

• The post holder should possess great project management skills including relationship management.
  

• They should be able to coordinate a wide range of activities while maintaining a high level liaison with government stakeholders (county level) and partner organizations.
  

• Previous experience working alongside a global team is highly preferred.
  

• Candidates should have good budget management and administration skills in addition to interpersonal skills.
  

• Education background with a Bachelors’ degree in communications and marketing management/ social science/ economics/business preferred or equivalent experience.
  

• Masters degree would be an added advantage.
  

• Lead the design of the marketing strategy for the vegetable project.
  
• Manage selection of different types of marketing agencies – research, advertising, media and promotion.
  
• Develop relevant briefs for these agencies and ensure good interpretation of the brief by the agency.
  
• Manage agencies to implement and deliver various parts of the workplan, including supervision of agency’s’ work to ensure quality of deliverables, workflow for review of deliverables by relevant GAIN staff.
  
• Develop the community engagement strategy, retail promotion and last mile distribution strategies.
  
• Represent GAIN in meetings with external stakeholders including government, NGOs, private sector.
  
• Provide technical advice to other project managers and colleagues on marketing aspects of their projects.
  
• Establish and maintain close collaboration with GAIN subject matter experts in Programme Services Team (PST) and Knowledge and learning (KL) departments.
  
• Maintain high level liaison with government stakeholders (county level) and other organizations working on complementary projects in the country context to share knowledge and best practice.