Marketing, Comms & Executive Support Associate

Location: Cape Town (hybrid)

Sector: Venture Capital / Fintech

Our client is a fintech-focused venture capital firm with a small team across London and Cape Town. Everyone owns real work from day one, in a flat structure.

This seat does two jobs. About one day a week you run the firm's marketing and communications. The rest of the week you keep the Managing Partner's diary and travel running, onboard investors, support investor relations and provide preparation-level finance support.

It is a seat with a clear path: over about two years it grows into the firm's investor relations function, which you would eventually lead, or into a Chief of Staff role. It is not a route into the investment team.

Responsibilities

Marketing and communications (about one day a week)

The thinking comes from the team. You own the execution and the calendar.

• Run the monthly newsletter end to end: gather inputs, draft, get sign-off, send and report on results
• Draft and publish two monthly LinkedIn series and ad hoc posts from data and commentary the team supplies; keep the content calendar
• Build a pipeline of conferences, panels and speaker slots; make applications and introductions, prepare briefing notes and follow up
• Turn the team's views into articles and posts ready to publish after a light edit
• Keep the website, teaser and investor materials current and consistent
• Produce a one-page monthly summary: what went out, what it produced and what is next

Executive support and investor relations (the rest of the week)

• Manage the Managing Partner's calendar, meetings and travel across time zones
• Take new investors through onboarding from first contact to admission, and be their day-to-day contact
• Own the investor communication roadmap (updates, reporting dates, meetings and events) and keep the CRM accurate
• Prepare materials and briefing notes for investor meetings; research investors and event attendees
• Finance support, preparation only: process invoices and expense claims, assemble the monthly payment run for review, light journal preparation
• The many things a small firm needs done that nobody else has time for

What success looks like

• The newsletter and LinkedIn posts go out on time every month
• The Managing Partner's diary and travel run without him chasing
• Investors are onboarded smoothly and always know what happens next
• More speaker engagements, published thought pieces and press mentions

Essential

• A BCom (marketing ideal, not essential), newly graduated or with up to about two years' agency or in-house marketing experience
• Strong written and verbal communication
• A bias to action: you find the problem, fix it and tell us afterwards. This matters more than anything else
• Organised and numerate enough to handle invoices, expenses and a payment run accurately
• Comfortable working UK hours when needed, and independently with a team in other time zones
• Right to work in South Africa

Helpful

• Experience in financial services, fintech, venture capital or professional services
• Familiarity with LinkedIn, newsletter tools and a CRM
• A portfolio of work you can show

Not a fit

• Someone who sees the admin as beneath them, or the marketing as a hobby
• Someone using the role as a way into investing

Package: a long-term hire with real alignment: base salary, performance-based bonus, equity and a share of carried interest.

To apply: submit your CV, a link to your portfolio or two pieces of work you are proud of, and one example of something you made happen without being asked.