Jobgether
Jobgether

Senior Social Media Project Manager

productfull-timeSouth Africa
SALARY
Not listed
WORK TYPE
remote
JOB TYPE
full-time
INDUSTRY
general
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About the role

Accountabilities

    • Partner with senior social media leadership to plan and deliver evergreen social initiatives, campaigns, strategic programs, and related communications projects.
    • Manage multiple projects simultaneously, defining scope, milestones, timelines, deliverables, responsibilities, dependencies, and communication plans.
    • Coordinate cross-functional contributors across social media, creators, content, creative, design, video, community, PR, marketing, analytics, and external partners.
    • Lead project kickoffs, status meetings, stakeholder check-ins, retrospectives, and other forums that maintain alignment and momentum.
    • Build and maintain project workflows in Asana, tracking deliverables, dependencies, resources, risks, and shifting priorities across distributed teams.
    • Proactively identify roadblocks, resource constraints, risks, and scope changes, escalating critical issues and helping teams develop practical solutions.
    • Work with leadership and stakeholders to prioritize initiatives, align resources and timelines, and connect project execution to broader communications goals.
    • Coordinate content and campaign workflows from development and review through approval and publication, ensuring delivery remains on schedule and within scope.
    • Develop project documentation, processes, dashboards, and reporting that provide clear visibility into project health, progress, and campaign performance.
    • Establish effective communication practices, decision-making processes, team norms, and expectations across multiple time zones.
    • Build trusted relationships across teams while influencing without direct authority and promoting accountability, inclusion, and shared ownership.
    • Lead retrospectives and implement process improvements that reduce bottlenecks and improve team effectiveness and delivery.
    • Requirements

      • 4+ years of experience in social media project management, communications project management, or a comparable role.
      • At least 2 years of experience working remotely with distributed or geographically diverse teams.
      • Hands-on experience with Asana and Google Workspace or comparable project and collaboration tools.
      • Strong project management capabilities across prioritization, planning, organization, time management, stakeholder management, facilitation, problem-solving, and decision-making.
      • Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and concurrent priorities.
      • Strong understanding of social media and campaign operations, including content development, review, approval, and publication workflows.
      • Ability to anticipate risks, manage dependencies, resolve roadblocks, and maintain accountability across teams.
      • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to adapt to different communication styles and collaborate across cultures and time zones.
      • Demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority and build strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders.
      • Comfort working with ambiguity, changing priorities, and complex or evolving project requirements.
      • Highly dependable, flexible, collaborative, and solutions-oriented approach.
      • A mission-driven mindset and genuine interest in contributing to work with broad public and social impact.
      • Openness, curiosity, creativity, resilience, and a strong commitment to inclusive and equitable collaboration.
      • Experience working within an international organization or distributed workforce is a plus.
      • Fluency in languages in addition to English is a plus.
      • Previous nonprofit experience is a plus.
      • Benefits

        • One-year remote contract.
        • Opportunity to work remotely from Germany as part of a globally distributed organization.
        • Collaboration with colleagues across the US, UK, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Southeast Asia.
        • Flexible work environment designed for distributed teams across multiple time zones.
        • Opportunity to contribute to mission-driven communications and globally visible initiatives.
        • Significant cross-functional exposure and the opportunity to influence processes without direct authority.
        • Compensation is adjusted based on the country of hire, with the specific local range available through the recruiting process.
        • Contract roles are eligible only for benefits required by applicable local law, where applicable.
        • Inclusive
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