What are the responsibilities and job description for the Social Media Associate position at Afrique Noire Magazine?
SOCIAL MEDIA ASSOCIATE (EDITORIAL RESEARCH)
About Afrique Noire Magazine
Afrique Noire Magazine is an independent publication covering African fashion, culture, and creativity across the continent and its diaspora, built on the belief that these stories deserve coverage as considered and as confident as the work itself. Our social platforms are where most readers first meet the magazine, which is why we hold our feed to the same editorial standard as our pages.
The Role
The Social Media Associate is a remote, Africa-based member of the team whose work sits where editorial research meets daily content creation, researching the designers, collections, and cultural stories shaping African fashion and turning those findings into content for Instagram, TikTok, and the magazine’s other platforms. The person in this seat will plan weekly content calendars, design posts in Canva, write captions to a publishable standard, and bring forward their own ideas about what the feed needs, with the freedom and the expectation to act on them. The position reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer and will grow alongside the magazine as the team expands.
Position Details
Location: Remote, based anywhere on the African continent
Eligibility: Open exclusively to candidates currently living in Africa; applications from outside the continent will not be considered
Reports to: Brand Manager
Engagement type: Part time/ Remote
Responsibilities
- Conduct ongoing editorial research into African fashion, including designers, collections, archives, street style, and the cultural histories behind them, and surface the findings worth building content around.
- Plan and maintain weekly content calendars that give the feed a clear arc, pacing posts across Instagram and TikTok so each week reads as one continuous story.
- Design social media posts in Canva that hold the magazine’s visual standard, from single graphics to carousels and assets for short-form video.
- Write captions and short-form copy in a voice consistent with the magazine’s pages, treating a caption with the same care as a printed paragraph.
- Follow the trends, sounds, and formats moving through TikTok and Instagram, and translate the ones worth keeping into content that fits who we are.
- Build reusable marketing templates the team can adapt for recurring formats, announcements, and campaigns, so strong ideas can be repeated without starting from zero.
- Bring your own ideas forward early and often, since this role is built for someone who notices what the feed needs and starts before being asked.
What We Are Looking For
- A genuinely creative eye, demonstrated through work you have already made, whether for a brand, a publication, a community, or a page of your own.
- Real excitement for fashion research, meaning the patience to trace a look, a designer, or a movement back to its source, and the instinct to know which findings will hold an audience.
- Fluency in how TikTok and Instagram actually work, from formats and sounds to timing and the small choices that decide how far a post travels.
- Strong writing in English, with the ability to carry the magazine’s voice in a caption as confidently as in a full paragraph.
- Working comfort in Canva, along with the planning discipline to build weekly content calendars that hold together as a whole.
- A proactive streak, the kind that drafts the idea before the meeting and flags the trend before it peaks.
How to Apply
The application is designed to show us how you think, so before sending anything, spend real time with the magazine’s page and form your own view of what it needs. From there, submit two pieces made entirely by you: a Canva social media post built on your own idea for our feed, a one-week content calendar showing how you would pace and shape seven days of content. Send all two along with your resume and cover letter to info@afriquenoirmagazine.com with Social Media Associate in the subject line, and include a short note on where in Africa you are based, since location on the continent is a firm requirement for this role.