Content and Community Manager

We're growing at Tech Safari - and looking for a brilliant Content and Community Manager to join our team 🧭

This year, we've grown to 63,000 newsletter subscribers and reach 1 million people a month through our content.

In this role, you'll work with our Head of Growth lead our video and creative strategy, deepen our community engagement and take our reach to the next level.

This role is for you if you've grown engaged communities before, are familiar with video content and you're high agency (read www.highagency.com for more on this).

💼 Role: Content and Community Manager
📍 Location: Nairobi (preferred), but open to remote
⌛ Start Date: Immediate
📄 JD + application link below

We're hiring through our recruitment arm Talent Safari who should reach out to shortlisted candidates soon.

So - are you in?
Or know someone who should apply?
Tag them below 🙏🏾

Posted by: Caleb Maru, Founder, Tech Safari

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Content and Community Manager — Tech Safari

Role Overview

As our Content and Community Manager, you will be at the forefront of building and engaging a dynamic, pan-African community. You’ll work directly with the Growth Lead and cross-functional teams to transform Tech Safari from a newsletter and social media pages into Africa’s most influential tech media brand.

In this role, you will:

• Own our community building strategy:
  Develop and implement initiatives that drive faster newsletter growth, higher engagement, and active participation across both Tech Safari and Caleb Maru’s social channels.
• Enhance content distribution:
  Repurpose high‑performing content across channels to engage different segments of our community.
• Build our video and creative content strategy:
  Support the creation of compelling video content that amplifies our community’s voice and showcases success stories across platforms.
• Drive marketing automation and reporting:
  Leverage analytics and experiment with creative growth engines (from merchandise and contests to viral campaigns) to boost engagement.
• Support our rebrand:
  Assist in rolling out updated messaging and visuals to position Tech Safari as the trusted voice in African tech.
• Support in-person and online events:
  Plan and execute social content for virtual and on‑the‑ground events that attract founders, investors, and tech innovators.

You Should Apply If:

• You’ve successfully grown engaged communities or content platforms (B2B and/or tech-focused).
• You have a deep understanding of the African tech ecosystem.
• You can balance complex data with creative, exciting content.
• You have a working knowledge of how to create video content.
• You’re comfortable being a “team of one” (for now) and taking initiative.
• You write compelling copy that drives community action and engagement.
• You excel in creating and executing strategic campaigns—not just publishing content.
• You can pivot quickly in a fast-paced, remote environment.
• You appreciate the cultural and creative nuances of different cultures and ecosystems in Africa.

💡 Essential Experience & Skills

• Experience: 2–3 years in community management, growth marketing, or related roles and use of platforms like TikTok, X, Instagram, YouTube Shorts.
• Proven Track Record: Demonstrated success in building engaged B2B communities and scaling digital audiences.
• Design Skills: Familiarity with design platforms like Canva and Figma.
• Content & Distribution: Strong understanding of content distribution channels and experience in managing both organic and paid acquisition channels.
• Event Marketing: Experience planning, executing, and marketing in-person and virtual events.
• Communication: Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Creativity: Experience with long and short-form video content creation and a knack for coming up with viral, creative engagement ideas.
• Testing: This is a test sentence to screen candidates who read through; an eye for detail is crucial to the role. In the final question in the application form, please start your sentence with the words “Here’s what I think…”
• Mindset: Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, fully remote environment and adapts quickly, with experience using the modern remote work tech stack, including platforms like Slack.
• Influencer Marketing: Working with influencers to boost brands on their channels.

💡 What We Offer

• Competitive Salary for the role.
• Numerous opportunities to learn new skills and expand your expertise.
• Rapid career progression within a small, close-knit team.
• The chance to work with Africa’s leading startups and tech companies—and global innovators.

💡 What Success Looks Like

First 30 Days:

• Build strong relationships with editorial, operations, and growth teams.
• Deep dive into current community and growth activities.
• Audit social media platforms.
• Create a quarterly comprehensive content strategy focused on community engagement.

Days 30–60:

• Implement the quarterly strategy.
• Boost organic community engagement on our newsletter and social media channels.
• Enhance performance across social channels.
• Test new engagement channels.
• Begin repurposing high‑performing legacy content and kick off a community video strategy.
• Present initial results, insights, and adjusted strategies based on data and feedback.

Days 60–90:

• Scale successful community initiatives and double down on winning experiments.
• Build repeatable processes for community growth and content repurposing.
• Develop quarterly, topical community content strategies aligned with key events and conferences.

💡 Our Goals

Here’s the long and short of what we need our next community manager to achieve within the next 3 months. None of these are negotiable:

1. Create 2–3 engaging posts per week on Caleb’s LinkedIn.
   LinkedIn is our primary growth channel. In a sense, it’s where Tech Safari Media was born with stories from our founder Caleb Maru. We need someone who can write engaging posts mimicking Caleb’s voice and tone. We have a lot of content so content will not be a problem. The posts will range from event recaps to sneak peeks of our newsletter editions, and charts.
2. Create 3–4 LinkedIn posts per week on Tech Safari’s LinkedIn.
   Same as above—only with a little more creative freedom. The TS Page will be your page, and we expect you will use the unique Tech Safari voice to connect to our audience.
3. Write our Weekly RoundUp.
   Our RoundUp outlines the top African tech news in an easy to digest listicle of 500 words. It goes out every Sunday, but we schedule it on Fridays (yay, work-life balance). This goal is critical to us because it helps our community manager stay up-to-date with African tech.
4. Use social media to help us grow our newsletter and events audience organically.
   There are no crazy expectations here. But our events and newsletter arms are critical to our business. We are experimenting and implementing other growth channels for either, but we’d like some organic non-ad growth from social media.
5. Reach our follower goals:
   • 10,000 followers on LinkedIn
   • 5,000 followers on Instagram
   • 1,000 followers on TikTok
     The first two are the primary channels we’ve identified as channels for growth; as the expert, you get to tell us which additional channels we should focus on.
6. Increase engagement across our social media channels.
   That means likes, comments, reposts, retweets—we want to be visible on social media.

What This Means for You

All these goals mean a couple of things for us:

1. Ownership

Right now, we are not looking to handhold anyone to achieve these goals. So we are looking for someone who will own these goals, and the processes it will need to get there. This means leading by creating a content strategy and a content calendar which the rest of the team can co-create and review with you.

2. Content Creation

You need to have basic design skills, and basic video editing skills—we use Canva and it works perfectly for us. We do not have a content team, so we expect that you will create it. This means you will write social media copy, work on strategy, create videos and design. We also know how much time this takes, so we will give you the time and tools you need. Again, we have no crazy expectations when it comes to output. We want reasonable output, that’s refined—work that you can be proud to put your name on.

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