Africax5 has a vacancy for a savvy social media professional to join our content and communications team’s expanding operations. Our priority is to recruit the right fit for our creative culture, with the title of Social Media Executive or Social Media Manager attached to the successful candidate based on the experience and abilities that they bring to the role.

We are recruiting for a part-time position.

Founded on years of digital media publishing experience, Africax5 is focused on creating high quality content to deliver authentic audience engagement.

As Social Media Executive/Manager, you’ll be working across a range of projects as well as support the marketing and communications requirements. You will also be actively involved with editorial and zoom project meetings, and be expected to bring great ideas to the table, including how projects can be brought to life creatively.

Above all we’re looking for someone who will relish creative challenges, thrive in a wide and varied role.

Responsibilities

• Manage scheduled creation and delivery of outstanding social media content

• Support the Editorial Director in delivering upon project content marketing strategies with adherence to brand tone and style

• Work with the lead Designer in outputting compelling social media assets

• Monitor and moderate audience activity across platforms, responding where appropriate and necessary

• Keep up to date with news, bring innovative social media thinking and content best practices

Requirements

• Previous experience of working in a similar social media capacity essential

• Have strong core skills and tactical knowledge of deploying social media campaigns

• Proven experience and success in growing active social media communities will be an advantage

• Be highly curious about the new and innovative ways that existing, as well as up-and-coming social media platforms, can be leveraged to create high quality audience engagement

• Have strong organisational skills including effective and realistic time-management

• Be highly motivated, self-confident, and flexible

• Experience of using social media management tools, such as Hootsuite or Buffer will be an advantage

Please also note that we offer extremely flexible working terms.

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Digital Assets / Shares are deposit directly to your Bitrue / Binance account monthly.

How to apply

Apply with your CV and two examples of projects that you’re most proud of. Send this all in PDF format to info@africax5.tv including Social Media Executive/Manager in the subject box. Please also detail when you would be available for a zoom interview.

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We’re always on the lookout for talented writers to join our Creative Collective

Good quality, relevant content is at the heart of Africax5 success. And never more so than the right words used to convey expert authority and honest passion in subjects about Africa and Africans inthe diaspora.

• Do you live and breathe your subject expertise?

• Are you a revered commentator in your field?

• Do you want to stay being a journalist but be better paid?

If you can say yes to each of the above questions then Africax5 wants to hear from you!

We pay for only the best journalists who can apply their craft at telling highly-engaging stories specifically targeting our audience interests and needs. You’ll be working closely with a project’s Content Director, who will inform you on focus and strategic intent, but otherwise we expect you to deliver a good story just as you would with any professional media outlet - there’s no real difference in the final intended result as far as we’re concerned!

We’re currently looking to trial new writers in subjects including Business in Africa, Technology in Africa, Health/Fitness/Well-Being, Money and Entrepreneurship in the Black Community, But if you want to be on our books for future projects and cover other subject areas, it will be good to know you too.

Africax5 is founded on media publishing experience and we are focused on creating high quality content to deliver authentic audience engagement. Subject expertise, a flair for words and an exhaustive depth of ideas and energy are a must if you want to join our Creative Collective.

As a Progressive Millennial Platform we only use and pay in Crypto Currency.
Digital Assets / Shares are deposit directly to your Bitrue / Binance account monthly.

Get in touch today

If you’ve interested to learn more about the opportunity to write for Africax5, then send two examples of your writing that you’re most proud of to info@africax5.tv including Specialist Subject Journalist in the subject box. And please include in the body message your mobile phone number so that we can call you back!

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The uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement in wake of the death of George Floyd started protests and most importantly, conversations on what needs to happen in order for racial injustice to stop occurring and for black people to be treated as equal. An ongoing topic I see all over social media in regards to this is the topic of educating our white counterparts about racism and why it’s wrong.

For most of us, we know that racism is wrong. We know that judging someone by the colour of their skin is wrong. However, as we continue to see in our daily lives, there are a lot of people who for whatever reason have been taught that judging someone by the colour of their skin is the right thing to do and in accordance with that, to treat people with certain skin tones in a certain way.

It’s clear that these people do need to be taught that what they have been taught is wrong, but is that for us as black people to do? Or is it something that we should leave to these people to do for themselves? 

Sayce Holmes-Lewis, the Co-founder of Mentivity, a black owned service that supports young people through sports, education and much more, took matters into his own hands following an incident where he was unfairly stopped and search by the Metropolitan Police. In an area such as London especially, that is very diverse and multi-cultural and with the current climate of racism that we're living in, it's no surprise that Holmes-Lewis was yet another victim of an unfair and unjust stop and search. Below is data that shows the Stop & Search rate per 1000 people by ethnicity and the results are unsurprising: 

Click here for source

Holmes-Lewis, in the video which he took whilst being searched, vowed to have a sit-down conversation with the Metropolitan Police and educate them on how to approach not just young black kids, but also black people in general.

ITV covered parts of this first of what will hopefully be many sit downs between Holmes-Lewis and the Metropolitan Police and from what we can see in video, the conversation had seemed to be very productive.

I have personally always been in favour of educating our white counterparts on racism and seeing the conversation that Holmes-Lewis was having with the police was really encouraging and I believe that more conversations like this need to be had, not just with the police, but with as many people as possible especially if we want change.

These conversations will be difficult and they will be awkward and they may even cause a bit of friction. Not everyone will be receptive and open to these kinds of conversations simply because they are too stuck in their ways, but the more people we are able to educate, the more people we are able to have these type of productive conversations with and the more people we can finally get to understand why the racist mentality they’ve been taught is so wrong, the closer we can get to providing the next generation and even potentially ourselves with a life that is free of racial injustice and a life where black people are treated as equals as we very well should be.

Be sure to check out & support Sayce Holmes-Lewis and ‘Mentivity’ by clicking the link below:

https://www.mentivity.com/our-story

Written by Lore Adekeye (twitter: @loreadekeye, IG: @shemz_nl).

It is estimated that there are approximately 30 million people around the world who are speech impaired and therefore rely on the use of sign language to be able to communicate with others. Not everyone understands sign language, so for someone who is speech impaired it will obviously be difficult for them to communicate what they want to say.

In steps Roy Allela, a 25-year old man from Kenya who has created an invention that’ll solve this problem: Smart Gloves. These gloves are able to convert sign language into audio speech, meaning that a person who does not know sign language would be able to communicate much more effectively with those with speaking difficulties. 

Allela says that he was inspired to create these gloves by his 6-year old deaf niece, who uses the gloves to communicate with him. Each of these gloves contains sensors in the fingertips which detect the movement being made once connected to the mobile application created also by Allela to work in tandem with it. Once connected and upon a movement being made, the corresponding letter or word comes out as audio speech.

One of the most important features about this product according to Allela is the speed of the audio. He says: “People speak at different speeds and it’s the same with people who sign – others are really fast, others are slow, so we integrated that into the mobile application so that it’s comfortable for anyone to use it.”

Inventors like Roy Allela are the people that the black community needs to push, push and push some more. These are the kind of inventions that get swept up by someone else claiming it was theirs and getting all the rewards from it as well as being recognised as the creator. Take Thomas Edison for example, the ‘creator’ of the light bulb. The innovation used to create longer, more efficient light bulbs with the carbon filament that we use today was created by an African-American man, Lewis Latimer. He’s often the one who gets overshadowed and forgotten about but without him, there would be no light bulb. 

With this being said, it is important that we as a community give Roy Allela the recognition and exposure his invention deserves. It has incredible potential and is something that a lot of people, maybe even 30 million people, will be able to benefit from. Click here to see a video of the gloves in action. 

Written by Lore Adekeye (Twitter: @loreadekeye, Instagram: @shemz_nl) 

Source(s): wearable-technologies.com