Communications Manager (Part-Time Consultancy)

Salary: R300 - R450 per hour

Location: Rondebosch, Western Cape 7700 (hybrid)

Job type: Part-time consultancy (approx. 8-15 hours per week)

Communications Manager (Part-Time Consultancy)

The Harry Crossley Children's Nursing Development Unit (CNDU) is seeking a talented and creative Communications Manager to lead our communications and marketing activities in a part-time consultancy capacity.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a small, dedicated team working to build and strengthen children's nursing in Africa, for Africa.

About Us

The Harry Crossley Children's Nursing Development Unit is a nurse-led teaching and scholarship unit within the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Cape Town.

Working with partners across the continent, the Unit builds capacity in children's nursing throughout Africa by supporting networks of nurses, educators, and leaders with contextually appropriate, evidence-based approaches that foster unapologetic African nursing excellence in the care of children and their families.

About the Role

The Communications Manager will lead CNDU's communications and marketing activities, ensuring a consistent, inviting and compelling presence across all platforms (social media, website and email). The role includes strategic planning, graphic content creation, website management, and marketing support for courses, conferences, and workshops.

We are looking for a creative and proactive communicator who can tell the story of CNDU's work across Africa, showcasing opportunities for engagement and the impact of our programmes, partnerships, and initiatives, through engaging content and strategic storytelling.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement CNDU's communications plan.
• Create, write, design, and publish content across multiple platforms.
• Manage CNDU's social media channels and online communities.
• Maintain and update the CNDU website.
• Support marketing for courses, conferences, workshops, and events.
• Develop stories, interviews, and multimedia content that showcase CNDU's impact.
• Monitor and evaluate communications and marketing activities.

Working Arrangements

• Part-time consultancy role
• Approximately 8-15 hours per week, depending on project and activity schedules
• Cape Town-based
• Need to be available to attend meetings and activities at the CNDU office in Rondebosch as required

Remuneration

R300-R450 per hour, commensurate with experience, skills, and portfolio

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing, or a related field
• At least four years' relevant communications experience
• Excellent writing, storytelling, and content creation skills
• Experience managing social media and websites
• Graphic design and multimedia skills
• Experience using analytics to assess communications performance
• Knowledge of healthcare, nursing, education, or the non-profit sector would be advantageous
• Residence within commuting distance of Rondebosch

Personal Attributes

We're looking for someone who is:

• Creative, proactive, and organised
• Comfortable working independently
• Skilled at identifying and communicating stories of impact
• Able to quickly understand, adopt and consistently communicate in the organisations voice, tone and brand style
• Interested in being part of strengthening children's nursing and child health outcomes in Africa
• Committed to African-led approaches to education, leadership, and healthcare development

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: R300,00 - R450,00 per hour

Expected hours: 8.0 – 15.0 per week

Application Question(s):

• Do you have at least four years' professional experience in communications, marketing, public relations, journalism, or a related field?
• Do you have experience managing both social media platforms and website content in a professional capacity?
• Do you have experience creating visual and digital content using Canva or similar design platforms?
• Are you based within commuting distance of Rondebosch, Cape Town, and available to attend meetings and activities at the CNDU office as required?
• Do you have communications experience in healthcare, higher education, research, or the non-profit sector?

Education:

• Diploma (Required)

Experience:

• professional communications and marketing: 4 years (Required)
• creating visual and digital content: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Rondebosch, Western Cape 7700