Corporate Overview

BURN Manufacturing designs produces and distributes Africa’s best-selling, fuel-efficient biomass, electric, hybrid, and liquid fuel cooking appliances. Not only do our products save money, fuel, and natural resources, but they also dramatically reduce harmful indoor smoke emissions which can cause significant health problems, even death.

With more than a 1.2Millon+ stoves sold since commencing manufacturing operations in 2013, BURN has established itself as Africa’s most trusted cookstove brand thanks to our unwavering commitment to innovative research and design, and manufacturing excellence, and customer care.

BURN is now the only vertically integrated modern cookstove company in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our solar-powered facility currently has a capacity of 45,000 stoves per month. We are proud to employ 400 team members throughout Kenya and East Africa, and support a workforce that is 50 percent female, thus empowering women in roles traditionally considered to be “for men only.”

Among our national and global honors, we have received the 2018 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneers Award for being among the world’s leaders in clean energy solutions, the 2018 Swiss Energy and Climate Summit Award for our pitch on the impact of clean-burning stoves, and the 2015 Ashden Green Energy International Award for empowering women with new economic opportunities.

Job description

BURN is looking for a creative and experienced Communications and Marketing Specialist for its new electric cooking products. The primary role of the successful candidate will be to direct, create and execute multi-channel social media campaigns. They will ensure that all content is on-brand and meets communications goals. They will search out and develop relationships with relevant social media influencers and leaders. They will identify up-and-coming platforms and features to distribute content through. In addition to creating content for our user groups, the Communications and Marketing Specialist will play a key role in developing communications directly with individual customers to ensure their individual success. The content created will be designed to meet specific goals from across the business such as marketing, research, after-sales, and product design.

BURN has been developing, testing, and bringing to market new cooking products for 10+ years in Kenya. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to join a growing organization and contribute to a fast-moving company committed to improving economic, environmental, and social outcomes in East Africa.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Direct the creation of professional content across multiple social media channels including but not limited to WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.
• Search our new opportunities to collaborate with other social media influencers.
• Daily management and publishing of content and copy.
• Contribute to the design and creation of customer communication strategies.
• Proactively collaborate with various groups within BURN establish communication goals.
• Create, edit, and publish video content for social media channels.
• Write and create copy for digital and print marketing campaigns in Swahili and English.
• Stay up to date with current trends for our target customer.
• Measure traffic and interpret usage data.

Skills and Experience

• Understand media habits in Kenyans.
• 3-5 years’ experience creating, publishing professional social media content.
• Demonstrated success managing multi-channel social media content.
• Experience with social media management tools.
• Experience using CRM or CMS systems a plus.
• Proficient at creating, editing and publishing video content for social media and the web.
• You use a data driven approach to direct the content you create.
• Proficient creating content with Adobe creative suite and video editing tools.
• Experience cooking local foods on traditional fuels is a plus.
• Strong organizational skill.
• Fluent in English and Swahili.

How to apply

If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please submit your application with a detailed CV to the email:[email protected]