Marketing Placement Student (Remote)

We employ 2,100 journalists, producers, engineers and sales staff. Our newsrooms publish thousands of stories a day across print, broadcast and digital.

About the internship

Dar es Salaam Times is hiring a Marketing Placement Student for Immediately. We are a small team, so the intern does real work. Expect spreadsheets, campaign setups and a lot of testing. You can work from home anywhere in Tanzania. We have no office requirement. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

What you'll do

• Draft blog outlines and short articles for product launches
• Present one learning or test result in the weekly marketing call
• Check that tracking pixels and conversion events fire correctly using Tag Assistant
• Write ad copy variations and track which headlines get better click-through rates
• Research competitor ads using the Meta Ad Library and summarise findings in a short doc

Who you are

• Eligible to work in Tanzania
• Based in Tanzania for the duration of the internship
• Available 25 to 30 hours a week for at least 3 months
• Curious about why some ads work and others do not
• Willing to learn new tools quickly. We use around 8 different platforms

Nice to have

• Google Ads certification or a completed Google Digital Garage course
• Experience boosting posts for a college fest or a family business
• Some HTML for editing email templates

What you get out of it

• How paid campaigns are set up, budgeted and optimised, with real spend behind them
• Email marketing basics: segmentation, subject line testing, open and click rates

Program dates: Immediately, 5 months.

Intern pay: TZS 260,000 - TZS 350,000 a month

What we offer

• Paid public holidays
• Online learning budget
• Internet allowance
• Letter of recommendation
• Possibility of a full-time offer

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Dar es Salaam Times Ltd.