Wanted: Sales executive in Johannesburg

Gavin — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:23:45 +0000

An exciting new advertising sales role for Live Magazine’s new JHB office.

Live Magazine is South Africa’s highest circulating free youth magazine, distributed every 3 months across the country’s major cities.

We are now looking for a sales executive to develop, follow-up and close advertising leads, create and grow partnerships with brands and agencies in Johannesburg. You’ll be working in conjunction with our Cape Town sales team, based out of Live’s new office in Braamfontein.

You’ll need to be super-friendly, dynamic, ambitious, persistent, with a thick skin, proven sales experience, a good sense of humour and ability to pick up the phone and make things happen. A good knowledge of the SA magazine scene, the youth sector and thick address book will be a huge advantage.

Some of the biggest and best brands are now working with Live Magazine as advertisers and sponsors: we need you to help grow this list…

A burning passion to make the world a better place by using your professional skills would also help…

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ABOUT LIVE MAGAZINE SA

Live Magazine SA is a quarterly youth culture publication originally from London: which includes a glossy youth magazine and mobi channel featuring an inspirational mix of gritty youth culture and information, advice, career guidance and things to do for a youth audience.

The twist: everything in the magazine is produced by young people themselves, from the commissioning and editing, to the design, layout and distribution. Its mission: to give life-changing skills development and employability training for its participants, and to educate and inspire tens of thousands of young readers with an inspiring, engaging and entertaining mix of arts, culture, sports and fashion mixed with hard-hitting youth issues and crucial information and guidance for young people.

Seed funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation, Live Magazine gives opportunities to a core team of dedicated young people to take ownership of their own publication, and provide relevant and credible youth content for hundreds of thousands of young South African readers.

For more info, check out:
www.livemag.co.za
www.livityafrica.com

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Closing date for applications: Feb 27th
Salary based on experience.

To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to gavin (at) livityafrica (dot) com

Recruitment update: positions filled…

Gavin — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:54:17 +0000

Thought I better post a short note to say all the vacancies we’ve advertised are now unfortunately (or fortunately, for us) filled.

Thanks for the incredibly overwhelming response – we had over 1000 applications overall for the three jobs.

Hope to post more vacancies soon…
Gavin

(Mis)representing the voice of SA youth

Gavin — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:21:59 +0000

Read my piece published today in the Daily Maverick here, written mainly in response to the FNB advertising campaign that got everyone talking.

Feel free to leave a comment…

Wanted: Senior Account Manager

Gavin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:33:08 +0000

Livity Africa is looking for a Senior Account Manager to work across our exciting young company, focusing on building the Live Magazine brand to become the leading youth media channel in SA.

Launched in 2011, Live Magazine SA is a youth lifestyle magazine that is 100% created by 16-25 year olds around South Africa. With a main production office in Cape Town, the magazine itself is distributed all over the country, and amplified by its online channels – via mobi, YouTube and social networks.
This role will be focused on business development, nurturing excellent relationships with existing and new commercial clients, and overseeing excellent delivery of campaigns and content within the youth team.

As well as being an excellent communicator and highly organised, you would need to be extremely proactive, willing to learn and able to multi-task under pressure. It’s also absolutely essential you can relate well to young people of a wide range of backgrounds, and understand youth culture.
You’ll work closely between our sales, management and media mentoring teams, as well as with our rolling team of around 20 full-time trainees, who join us for a 3-6 month cycle and create all the content.

You’ll be managing clients, developing and pitching campaigns for the magazine and wider business, and making sure those campaigns are delivered on time and to a high quality. Live has already worked with an impressive list of clients, including Google, Coca-Cola, eTV, eNca, Metropolitan, Ster Kinekor, Johnson&Johnson and Puma.

This is a rewarding and demanding full-time role based in Cape Town, with regular travel to Johannesburg. You’ll need a minimum of 4 years’ experience in the marketing or advertising industry, with two years at least at Account Manager level.

Please apply with a CV and covering note to gavin@livityafrica.com by January 25th 2013.

More about Live Magazine here:

Our mobi site: www.livemag.co.za
The story behind Live coming to SA: www.livityafrica.com
Read back issues online here: http://issuu.com/livemagazinesa

Things that make me proud…

Gavin — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:15:20 +0000

Writing up a quarterly update for the Shuttleworth Foundation folks is a good opportunity to look back on the last 3 months. Everything moves so fast here that one thing we’re definitely *bad* at is taking a moment to think, “hmm, that was actually amazing…”

But for my favourite artefact from September to November, I have to list an award won – not by us directly, but by Manez Sobethwa, a member of our team who moved on from Live Magazine SA to advertising agency 140BBDO.

In the Loerie Awards for 2012 Manez, still only an intern, won a GOLD for his first ever radio commercial for Snickers. Check it out here, with Manez performing the main monologue:

Not only is it an amazing achievement for a rookie in the industry, I think this ad is genuinely brilliant and funny, and shows the benefit of bringing diverse young talent into the industry that you may not find from the usual top-end advertising schools…

Manez, a lugubrious and humble soul, shrugged off the award…

Viva!

Live Mag SA x eNca Internships

Gavin — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:02:30 +0000

Last week, eNca – South Africa’s fast-rising news channel – confirmed the selection of two Live Magazine SA graduates for full-time paid broadcast internships at the channel’s office in Cape Town.

All the Live Magazine SA young team competed for the placements, with a shortlist of five being pared down for interview by eNca, from which only two were selected. The two selected are Danyal Zaal and Asanda Kaka, and they will begin their internships in January…

Wanted: Youth Development Producer for Live Mag (Cape Town)

Gavin — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:53:06 +0000

Live Magazine SA is recruiting for a unique role that combines the challenge of helping to produce a national magazine and developing the young talent of the future.

Due to our expansion into Johannesburg, we are now recruiting a new Youth Development Producer to oversee the recruitment, retention, progression and creative potential of our team of young media trainees in Cape Town.

For this we’re looking for a unique individual who is highly-organised, extremely proactive, willing to learn and able to multi-task under pressure: can relate on a level to young people of a wide range of backgrounds, and understands youth culture intimately.

You’ll work closely with our small team of media mentors, but even more closely with our rolling team of around 20 magazine and media interns, who join us for a 3-6 month cycle. This role is responsible for recruiting and managing the trainees, tracking their personal development and helping them towards their career and life goals.

You’ll also need to pitch in to help produce and organise shoots, career workshops, weekly talks and the co-ordination of other volunteer mentors, as well as continually forming partnerships with external partner organisations.

This is a rewarding and demanding full-time role based in Cape Town and would suit someone with a media/ advertising background with a strong passion (and, ideally, experience) in personal/ career development of young people or trainees.

Please apply with a CV and covering note to gavin@livemag.co.za by December 17^th.

More about Live Magazine here:

Our mobi site: www.livemag.co.za

The story behind Live coming to SA: www.livityafrica.com

Read back issues online here: http://issuu.com/livemagazinesa

We are recruiting in JHB: Media Mentor & Editorial/ Admin intern

Gavin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:59:09 +0000

Livity Africa/ Live Magazine SA are recruiting!

Please see details below of two new opportunities to join the gang as we move into Jo’burg…

****UPDATE – 5/12/12: DUE TO A HUGE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS FOR THESE JOBS, WE WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO CONTACT SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES. IF YOU DON’T HEAR FROM US BY DECEMBER 17TH THEN UNFORTUNATELY YOU WEREN’T SHORTLISTED. THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING! ***

WANTED: MEDIA MENTOR FOR LIVE MAG SA’S NEW JOHANNESBURG HUB

Live Magazine SA is opening its first satellite office in Johannesburg in Feb/Mar 2013, and is looking for a content-creation mentor to work with a brand new team of contributors in Braamfontein.

Launched in 2011, Live Magazine SA is a youth lifestyle magazine that is 100% created by 16-25 year olds from South Africa. With a main production office in Cape Town, the magazine itself is distributed all over the country, and amplified by its online channels – via mobi, YouTube and social networks.

We need a part-time media mentor who can oversee every type of content being created across Live SA’s platforms by young contributors from a new office hub in Braamfontein. This hub will engage with aspiring content creators who will produce magazine, mobile and YouTube content, with a particular focus on arts and culture.

Candidates should be all-rounders who are well versed in producing content for multiple platforms, with a superb knowledge of social media, writing for web, print and ideally basic video capture and editing.

This is a role for a facilitator – mentors don’t produce content themselves – who can oversee patiently and constructively, with a passion for seeing young creative people excel and progress.

Good networks, a positive attitude and a keen interest and knowledge of the arts and culture scene would be a massive benefit.

Flexible commitment (3 days per week) would suit a freelancer, and there may be some evenings required.

Please apply with a CV and covering note to joburg@livemag.co.za by December 17^th.

More about Live Magazine here:

Our mobi site: www.livemag.co.za

The story behind Live coming to SA: www.livityafrica.com

Read back issues online here: http://issuu.com/livemagazinesa

WANTED: EDITORIAL AND ADMIN INTERN FOR YOUTH MAGAZINE

Live Magazine SA is opening its first satellite office in Johannesburg in Feb/Mar 2013, and is looking for an editorial and admin assistant to support our team in Braamfontein.

This entry-level role suits a graduate or first-jobber with an passion for media, who is highly organised and keen to gain experience in the industry. You will be supporting our Project Lead and Content Mentor as they engage with young contributors producing content for the magazine, mobisite and social networks.

You’ll need to support on basic admin, filing, managing transport and airtime budgets, and ensuring petty cash and supplies are all up to date and in order. But you’ll also help with uploading content to the mobi site, social media, organising workshops and events, recruiting contributors and interacting with mentors and brands.

The role is full-time, will be based in Braamfontein, and comes with a basic salary.

Please apply with a CV and covering note to joburg@livemag.co.za by December 17^th.

More about Live Magazine here:

Our mobi site: www.livemag.co.za

The story behind Live coming to SA: www.livityafrica.com

Read back issues online here: http://issuu.com/livemagazinesa

Live Mag is one year old

Gavin — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:55:27 +0000

Happy birthday to us… And here’s the new issue, which hits the streets next week…

Wanted: Photography mentor for Live Mag SA

Gavin — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:29:28 +0000

Could you help harness the enthusiasm and energy of talented young South African photographers and help them produce amazing work?

We’re looking for an experienced photographer with an interest in youth development to oversee a small team of young photographers putting together Live Magazine SA.

Based in Cape Town, it’s a flexible commitment based around the 3-month production cycle of an issue, and comes with a per issue retainer fee. Would suit a freelancer, and magazine experience would be a huge bonus

For more info, or to apply with your CV, please contact gavin@livemag.co.za