Assistant Director: Marketing

About the role

The Department of Land Reform and Rural Development is offering an internship in Assistant Director: Marketing in Internal Communications, based in Gauteng (Pretoria). The stipend is R487,197 a year. How to apply: Applications can be submitted by hand delivery during office hours to: 600 Lilian Ngoyi Street (formerly known as Van Der Walt Street) Berea Park, Pretoria, 0001 or by email to Post299@dlrrd.gov.za Reference number to quote: 3/1/1/1/2026/299 Closing date: 09 November 2026 at 16:00 Use the new Z83 form and attach a detailed CV. Note: EE Targets: Coloured, Indian and White Males and African, Coloured, Indian and White Females and Persons with Disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide marketing services for the Department.
• Coordinate outreach campaigns, information and advocacy sessions to create awareness of the department's initiative and programmes.
• Compile and distribute information material on the programmes, policies and services of the Department.
• Promote citizen engagement by coordinating public participation in departmental policies and programmes.
• Facilitate inter-departmental and external stakeholder messaging on marketing initiatives.
• Support initiatives to uphold the departmental brand identity.
• Handle and facilitate information queries from the public and stakeholders attending departmental events and activities.
• Coordinate corporate identity services for the Department.
• Monitor the implementation of the departmental brand for consistent visual presentation.
• Record non-compliance corporate identity guidelines on branded output.
• Conduct regular training sessions on the compliance to the branding guidelines.
• Assess and recommend appropriate types of branded signage and way-findings to departmental service delivery points or activities.
• Develop and implement consistent brand messages internally and externally.
• Provide advice and specifications for branded collateral and promotional material.
• Draft and implement event branding plans.
• Organise and implement events, exhibitions and information sessions.
• Plan, organise and coordinate events, exhibitions, campaigns and information sessions.
• Draft and keep an updated calendar for events, exhibitions and information sessions.
• Identify and recommend relevant target audiences for exhibitions and information sessions.
• Regular liaising with relevant event, activity or campaign content leaders.
• Interact with stakeholders and delegates to provide information at events and exhibitions.
• Maintain even and exhibition attendance registers.
• Maintain detailed referral documents for queries which cannot be addressed during the activities.
• Follow-up on events and exhibition queries with the relevant internal units until closure and provide reports.
• Package and implement traditional and multi-media information tools for departmental activities.
• Collate and distribute planned and ad-hoc information material to stakeholders.
• Coordinate media buying and advertising services.
• Recommend appropriate media channels for paid media campaigns and projects.
• Source media buying quotations from media houses and media owners.
• Coordinate the production of advertisement copy or audio-visual recordings aligned to corporate identity guidelines.
• Coordinate the placement of the advertisement.
• Collate print media advertisement tear-offs, audio and video clips.

Requirements

• Minimum requirements:
• Grade 12 Certificate and a National Diploma in Marketing/Brand Management/Public Relations (NQF Level 6)
• At least 3 years' experience in marketing and brand management service environment
• A valid driver's licence
• Job related knowledge:
• Knowledge of Policies and legislations governing communication
• Marketing and Brand Management principles
• Batho-Pele principles
• Job related skills:
• Marketing Communication
• Interpersonal Relations
• Advocacy
• Computer literacy
• Analytical thinking
• Decision making
• Problem solving
• Ability and willingness to travel extensively and work outside office hours