VACANCY: Supervisor - Marketing & PR (Worcester)

The Western Cape Blood Service is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to collect, process and distribute blood and blood products of the highest standards in the Western Cape.

A vacancy exists for a Supervisor - Marketing & PR (Paterson Grade C1) in our Worcester Regional Branch

Main Purpose of the Job

• Maintain an existing blood donation clinic portfolio and establish new partnerships and opportunities to enable a sufficient, and safe blood supply.
• Implement effective short-term and long-term marketing strategies to ensure that each blood donation clinic performs to its full potential.
• Educate the general public on the importance of blood donation.
• Nurture and maintain the vital relationship between our blood donor clinic representatives and the organisation. 
• Prioritise the recruitment of new blood donors at both existing and new blood donor clinics.

   

  Responsibilities include but is not limited to:

   

• Plan and implement marketing campaigns (which includes branding opportunities, awareness drives and activations).
• Set-up and breakdown of appropriately branded activations and actively recruit donors to increase our donor base.
• Conduct and arrange various talks, presentations and awareness exhibitions.
• Prepare and distribute branding and other promotional material to ensure maximum brand and blood donation clinic awareness.
• Actively participate in team meetings to achieve the common goal of ensuring a safe and sufficient blood supply.
• Accurate, daily communication to various stakeholder via emails and telephone.
• Perform marketing strategies to improve clinics.
• Actively seek opportunities for new clinics.
• Actively seek branding and awareness opportunities.
• Write articles for various publications such as internal newsletters and community newspapers.
• Actively contribute content for publication on social media.
• Regular travelling

Minimum Requirements

• Matric Certificate
• National Diploma/Degree in Public Relations/Marketing/Communications or equivalent qualification
• Computer literate
• Excellent written communication skills
• Meticulous when it comes to meeting deadlines.
• Bilingual (Speak and write English and Afrikaans)
• Self Motivated
• An unendorsed code 08 driver’s licence

Western Cape Blood Service is an equal opportunity employer.

Kindly visit our website, www.wcbs.org.za and follow the links to apply.

Please note that no emails or hand delivered application will be accepted

Should you not receive feedback within 4 weeks of submitting your application, please consider this as unsuccessful.

Closing Date: 06 November 2026