Senior SEO Strategist

Would you like to work for a global digital agency that creates experiences that people want and businesses need? This team have an exciting job opportunity for a Senior SEO Strategist to join their team in Cape Town. If you have extensive experience in, and a thorough understanding of search engine optimisation and digital marketing tactics, this job could be perfect for you!

Your key job responsibilities as the Senior SEO Strategist in Cape Town will include:

• Take a high level overview of campaigns and deliver measureable results
• Full understanding of redirection and SEO considerations in terms of new site launches
• Intelligently interpret and respond to internal and client briefs
• Conduct full website Audits, reporting and present to clients
• Consult with Development Teams to guide high level website builds to achieve maximum possible traffic volumes
• Assist client service in drafting the brief where the content is particularly challenging
• Work collaboratively at a senior level with other teams
• Anticipate potential project problems and provide clear, actionable solutions
• Guide and teach more junior members of team
• Research and explore best practices
• Take short-term leadership of team when Head of SEO is unavailable

Requirements for this Senior SEO Strategist job in Cape Town:

• 4 years’ experience in, and a thorough understanding of search engine optimisation and digital marketing tactics
• Complete understanding of SEO within the Marketing Space
• Basic understanding of HTML
• Ability to analyse a website from a technical perspective
• An understanding of best practice technical requirements for search, and the effect of various technologies on search rankings (Meta tags, XML video sitemaps etc.)
• Experience using SEO-specific tools
• A good understanding of web analytics tools (GA, SiteCatalyst etc.)