Internships

SEO Specialist (Mid Level)

Go2Africa is hiring an SEO Specialist on behalf of the Nawiri Group.

As the SEO Specialist, you will be responsible for analysing, planning and implementing our SEO strategies. As our online presence is extremely important for the success of business, your position will play a huge role in driving our business’ growth and success.

You will work closely with the Head of SEO along with our Product teams, content, developers and design team. We are looking for an analytical and perceptive professional who is a skilled communicator and able to collaborate with various teams. Current knowledge of SEO practices and techniques is essential to this role.

About Nawiri

Nawiri Group holds controlling interests in a portfolio of leading responsible-travel companies and supports a range of impact organizations and initiatives in some of the greatest, globally important natural wilderness areas on the African continent. Our roots date back to the nineties when some of the companies within Nawiri Group were first established. Across various brands we employ more than 1,000 people and have a footprint of 20 camps and lodges in Kenya and Tanzania, as well as commercial and support offices in multiple countries.

We offer guests upmarket African safaris through immersive wildlife experiences and a very personal approach. Making a positive impact in the areas and local communities where we operate and running our operations in a responsible and sustainable manner is an integral part of our strategy, and is reflected in our status as a certified B-Corp.

We have ambitious growth plans and are in the process of expanding our operational, commercial and technology capabilities to enable the further scaling of both our guest experiences and travel offerings as well as our positive impact activities in the region.

Content Production Administrator (Travel Rates Specialist)

Go2Africa is hiring on behalf of JourneyPlanner – a company that forms part of the Nawiri Group.

As Content Production Administrator, you ensure the availability of high-quality product content, which is aligned to meeting the needs of platform users, in a dynamic and time sensitive environment. Travel rates and contracting details make up the majority of the content you will be working with.

You will be working within a team of like-minded individuals – committed to supporting our business partners and their efforts to achieve success in the sales and decision-making endeavours.

Your understanding of how individual and collective efforts contribute to achieving outcomes and your ability to proactively engage and collaborate with business partners, product content providers and platform users, will be vital skill-sets to enabling that the Content Operations Team achieve its objective of delivering the right content, at the right time.

Product Administrator

Go2Africa is recruiting Product Administrators! The Go2Africa Product team takes accountability for a broad range of business functions, this includes supplier relationship management, product research and requisition, supplier training and educational travel. Product Administrators provide administrative support across many of these areas, with the goal of enhancing team effectiveness and efficiency. We are looking for skilled administrators, with a passion for luxury travel in Africa and conservation.

Product Administrator – East Africa Support

Go2Africa is recruiting for a Product Administrator! This role will support the Product Manager with portfolio assistance and will be responsible for building, creating and maintaining relationships with our preferred partners. The Product Administrator will be accountable for all administration and support within the portfolio and assist with general admin within the team.

Travel Consultants – Sales Experts

We are looking for experienced Travel Consultants to join us in a Sales Expert role! The Sales Expert’s core function is to convert enquirers into bookers by sharing expert knowledge and customising an itinerary perfectly suited to budget and preferences. Successful candidates must be experts in tailor-making high-end, safari-focused holidays in destinations throughout Southern and East Africa. Ideal candidates will have a strong sales track record and possess excellent negotiation skills.

Product Information Administrator

Go2Africa is recruiting a Product Information Administrator! This role will support the Product team members with the production and task administration cycle. The Product Information Administrator will strive to enhance effectiveness, efficiency, and achievement of set objectives.

Graphic Designer

Go2Africa is recruiting for a mid-weight Graphic Designer to support our small but fast-paced Marketing team with a wide range of design-led tasks. As this is the only design-focussed role in our business, the successful candidate will be a multi-skilled lover of all things design, taking accountability for all Go2Africa design work. This means having the skills to navigate and solve challenges or making design decisions based on your experiences.

The role includes owning and evolving our style guide, creation of marketing collateral and digital assets, image sourcing, editing and management, video creation, and various special projects. As and when needed, the successful candidate will assist with website UX / UI design. The role also allows for contributions to be made to Go2Africa’s overall brand strategy.

Sales Director

The role of the Sales Director is to ensure the effective and efficient control over the growth plan of the organisation by identifying, developing, and implementing commercial strategies to accelerate growth. The key aspects of the role relate to increasing enquiry to customer conversion, overall customer satisfaction, and strategic project operationalisation. The ideal candidate will have an entrepreneurial mindset, strong leadership skills, coupled with strong analytical and numerical skills that can turn data into actionable insight. The ideal candidate will also be a creative strategist with excellent organizational abilities.

The role requires both a strategic conceptualisation focus and the ability to motivate and enable teams to execute. The Sales Director is a close partner to the Managing Director, and together with the MD will report strategic and operational aspects to the Company’s board of directors.

Commercial Executive

Go2Africa is recruiting for an experienced Commercial Executive to join the Leadership team! The role of the Commercial Executive is to ensure the effective and efficient control over the growth plan of the organisation by identifying, developing, and implementing commercial strategies to accelerate growth. The key aspects of the role relate to increasing enquiry to customer conversion, overall customer satisfaction, and strategic project operationalisation. The ideal candidate will have an entrepreneurial mindset, strong leadership skills, coupled with strong analytical and numerical skills that can turn data into actionable insight. The ideal candidate will also be a creative strategist with excellent organizational abilities.

The role requires both a strategic conceptualisation focus and the ability to motivate and enable teams to execute. The Commercial Executive is a close partner to the Managing Director, and together with the MD will report strategic and operational aspects to the Company’s board of directors.

Travel Sales Administrators

Go2Africa is recruiting Travel Sales Administrators! Sales Administrators provide administrative support to the Sales team throughout the bookings, confirmation, and travel stage of a client’s holiday. They are aligned to either 1 or 2 African Safari Experts (ASEs) and are responsible for assisting with all administrative details pertaining to a travel itinerary and the accompanying travel documentation.

Frontend Developer

Go2Africa is recruiting for the role of Frontend Developer to join its Marketing team based in Cape Town. This role, and the ideal candidate will bring knowledge of current coding practices to realise new user journeys and enhance the existing UX/UI of the Go2Africa website.

They will be working with the Marketing team and reporting to the Digital Product Manager to ensure they are working in line with the team vision.

The role is based at our Waterfront office. The company offers a hybrid working model with one in office work day per week and the rest remote.

Social Media Specialist

Go2Africa is looking for an ambitious Social Media Specialist to manage and grow our organic social media activity, and use the channel to support our lead-growth targets.

The goal is to gradually increase customer engagement, website traffic and enquiries by inputting to an executing our social media marketing strategy. The role requires a solid understanding of how each social media channel works and how to optimize content so that it is engaging on those channels. You are responsible for joining relevant conversations on behalf of the brand and “soft selling” the product by providing support to current and prospective customers.

The role sits within the Marketing team and is based in our Cape Town office. We currently have a hybrid working system with 1-2 days per week in the office and the remainder remote working.

Performance Marketing Specialist

Go2Africa is looking for an ambitious performance marketer to fill a newly created role that will help take our lead growth to the next level.

The Performance Marketing Specialist will be responsible for day-to-day management and optimisation of Go2Africa’s paid digital marketing channels to grow lead acquisition at a target ROI. Our primary lead channels are Paid Search (Google and Bing) and Paid Social, and we have a fledgling Affiliate program. We’re also keen to diversify our digital lead acquisition effort by evaluating, testing and scaling new, efficient paid channels and partners, including Twitter, Spotify, Pinterest etc.

The Performance Marketing Specialist will need to stay up to date with travel and performance marketing trends to be able to combine hands on channel management with overseeing a digital marketing agency who support our Paid Search efforts.

The role sits within the Marketing team and is based in our Cape Town office. We currently have a hybrid working system with 1-2 days per week in the office and the remainder remote working.

Travel Consultants – Specialized Experts

We are looking for experienced Travel Consultants to join our Operations team! Successful candidates will be experts in tailor-making high-end, safari-focused holidays in destinations throughout Southern and East Africa. Ideal candidates will be exceptionally skilled at itinerary-building and quoting, or at managing every element of a client’s experience while traveling.

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Receptionist

Go2Africa is looking for a Receptionist to join our team! The successful candidate will provide professional telephone management and front office administration services. As a representative of our business, this role is ideal for a well-spoken and organised individual, who understands the importance of good customer service.

Campaign Manager

Go2Africa is looking for a Campaign Manager to own our campaigns and spearhead project management. This person will plan, coordinate, implement, monitor and measure all campaign activity with the intent of creating leads and acquiring customers. They will also contribute to the planning and execution of other major departmental initiatives. These duties will include, but are not limited to, anything from CRM emails to website enhancements.

Content Manager / Editor

Go2Africa is recruiting for the role of a Content Manager / Editor. In collaboration with the Head of Marketing (Brand, Content, PR), the successful candidate will spearhead Go2Africa’s written content creation efforts. Key components of this role will center around content planning and editing. The ideal candidate is highly organized and both a creative and analytical thinker who can contribute from strategy through execution, ensuring all content is high quality, accurate, on time, error-free, brand aligned and ultimately delivers on its goal.

Sales Team Leader

Go2Africa’s Sales Team Leader will be responsible for overseeing a team of Africa Safari Experts (ASEs). The successful candidate will be entrusted with supporting the growth and development of the team from an operational and people perspective, in line with overall business needs.

Banking and Debtors Clerk

Go2Africa is recruiting for a Banking and Debtors Clerk! The successful candidate will co-ordinate, control and manage all cash and bank aspects, optimize cash flow and return on cash flow. This role will also require the successful candidate to manage the debtors of the company. Assistance with general office management and additional accounting aspects is also a requirement.

Content Writer

Go2Africa is recruiting for the role of a Content Writer to join its rapidly growing Marketing Team. Working with other internal teams, this candidate will produce high-quality, engaging, brand-aligned written content across Go2Africa’s channels. In addition, this role will contribute to the team with other content creation and digital marketing responsibilities.

Safari Expert Academy

New recruits will be employed as Africa Safari Experts and afforded the opportunity to participate in Go2Africa’s structured training programme, known as the Safari Expert Academy.

The Safari Expert Academy, which has been successfully operating for over a decade, will provide 3-months of structured training. The training will equip the new hires with industry-leading sales, marketing and product knowledge, as well as including local travel and site inspections. Once the training is completed, the new hires will hit the sales floor and begin to fulfil the function of an Africa Safari Expert.

Recruitment is open to graduates, candidates with general working experience and junior travel consultants.

Employment commences in February 2020, in Cape Town. The deadline for application is 31 August 2019.

Marketing Product Manager

Go2Africa is looking for a Marketing Product Manager to join the fast-growing Marketing Team! This position will require the successful candidate to work within the Performance Marketing team and report to the Head of Commercial Optimisation.   

Senior UX / UI Designer

Go2Africa is recruiting for the role of a Senior UI / UX Designer. This position will require the successful candidate to create innovative and engaging web-based user-interface design to visually solve problems and collaborate on opportunities consistent with Go2Africa’s overall brand strategy. The successful candidate will also contribute to user-experience thinking, working with the Marketing Department to use research, reporting and testing outcomes to inform creative direction and transform the overall end-user experience.

Financial Manager

We are looking for a Financial Manager for our online travel business. The successful candidate will be required to effectively lead the Finance team with specific attention given to the financial and fiscal management of Go2Africa, as well as providing commercial support to the CFO and MD.

Product Administrator

In this role, the successful candidate will work in the Product Department, supporting the team and its members to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency and achievement of objectives in dealings with suppliers and product.

Africa Air Expert

Go2Africa is looking for an Africa Air Expert to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for actioning quotation and ticketing requirements for our Sales Department. This role requires a focus on sales performance and high-quality service delivery to the Go2Africa Sales Department and clientele.

German Africa Safari Expert

Go2Africa sucht deutschsprachige Mitarbeiter mit Erfahrung sowie Berufsanfänger für die Position eines Afrika-Safari-Experten.

Rates and Data Administrator

In this role, the successful candidate will support Go2Africa’s Sales and Marketing teams by providing a high-quality procurement, cost calculation, data capture and information management service pertaining to supplier-related material used by Go2Africa. The role of the successful candidate would be to maintain and manage the availability, accuracy and relevance of supplier-related information on Go2Africa’s Data Management Systems.

Production Assistant

In this role, the successful candidate will be required to facilitate a seamless production workflow process by providing support to the Production team.

Head of Brand

Go2Africa are seeking a highly experienced sales and marketing professional to help deliver their next phase of growth.

This new role has a focus on brand, retention, and comms, and will be the custodian of Go2Africa’s brand positioning and messaging across all channels of communication and materials. A key aspect of the role will also include overseeing a lead generation strategy from offline channels, an area Go2Africa is looking at expanding.

With a remit to grow the current marketing team of 6, an external US based PR agency, this role reports into the CEO and will become a key member of the Go2Africa Leadership team.

Collaboration will be required both with digital acquisition strategy (paid search, paid social, affiliates and SEO) and website development, which are managed centrally at Group level. You would also work closely with our Sales Director / CSO to ensure effective conversion of offline leads generated by the sales team.

Africa Travel Coordinator

In this role, the successful candidate will support our sales consultants (known as Africa Safari Experts) by ensuring that all clients receive e-documentation within 30-plus days of travel. This includes sales administration and reconfirmation of all services. You will also undertake toll-free call and enquiry management, and reception relief.

German Africa Safari Expert

Go2Africa sucht deutschsprachige Mitarbeiter mit Erfahrung sowie Berufsanfänger für die Position eines Afrika-Safari-Experten.