Series Researcher - Sales Support

Series Researcher - Sales Support

South Africa | Full Time | Fully Remote

Start - September / October 2026

CWP (Content With Purpose) is seeking a highly organised, curious and proactive Series Researcher to support our sales team in the development of our award-winning digital film series.

In this role, you will play a vital part in shaping the foundations of our campaigns - researching industries, identifying compelling organisations and individuals, and helping to connect CWP with potential ‘Content Partners’ who are driving positive change across their sectors. Your work will directly influence the stories we tell, the partners we collaborate with, and the global impact of our series.

You will combine strong research skills with clear written communication and commercial awareness, working across multiple sectors to identify opportunities, map stakeholders, and conduct tailored outreach activity. This is a hands-on, varied role, well suited to someone who enjoys digging into complex topics, spotting patterns and opportunities, and translating insight into clear, actionable outputs.

Working closely with CWP's Founder and Series Development team, you’ll support the end-to-end pitch process - from early-stage sector research through to prospect identification, outreach and briefing notes. You’ll be comfortable using tools such as LinkedIn, Excel, CRM platforms and AI (including ChatGPT) to work efficiently, accurately and at pace.

The role is designed to develop quickly. During your first six months, you will receive support and guidance as you build your understanding of CWP's model, research approach, outreach processes and systems. By the six-month point, we would expect you to be working confidently and independently across the breadth of the role's responsibilities - managing your own workload, meeting agreed targets, identifying opportunities and using good judgement to progress projects with limited day-to-day supervision.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to purpose-driven storytelling, gain exposure across a wide range of global industries, and play a meaningful role in helping organisations share solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. You’ll become part of our growing South African team, with opportunities to meet and work together in person on occasion.

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About CWP

We are strategists, creatives, producers, filmmakers and marketers dedicated to uncovering, creating, and sharing stories of optimism around the world’s greatest challenges. Our stories inspire action, cultivate hope, and pave the way for a future where every individual and organisation recognises their potential to contribute to a better society and a healthier planet.

What?

We partner with professional member associations and trade bodies to produce and promote sector-focused ‘digital series’ for their industries. These award-winning series include multi-platform, ‘narrowcast’ content; including documentaries, short films, interviews, and written material.

Why?

These digital series are aimed at supporting professionals to drive progress within their sectors towards a positive future. Our innovative, purpose driven content is case study and character-led; highlighting the issues, the solutions and the required innovations to speed the transition to a more sustainable future.

Who?

Our digital series feature people and organisations at the forefront of pushing their industries towards a sustainable future - whether through exciting technological innovation or by rethinking the way business is done. ‘Content Partners’ demonstrate progress in action and span government, academia, corporations, NGOs, charities, funders, start-ups and more.

Example content

Travel Redefined: Tourism for People and Planet is a digital series that CWP produced in collaboration with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) in 2025. This worldwide campaign filmed across six continents, exploring tourism’s potential to drive positive social, cultural, environmental, and economic impact. The campaign generated more than 16 million video views and 22 million impressions globally, and has been recognized as both a Webby Honoree and Digiday Content Marketing Awards finalist. You can explore the full series here - https://contentwithpurpose.co.uk/gstc/travelredefined/

About the role - Series Researcher

Key responsibilities:

• Conduct thorough industry and sector analysis to identify key trends, organisations, opportunities and potential storylines for new and existing series
• Carry out in-depth research to identify, assess and prioritise potential partners and contributors for each series, building well-researched prospect lists across a diverse range of organisation types
• Use online sources such as company websites and LinkedIn to identify appropriate contacts
• Update and maintain the CRM platform and internal tracking documents, producing clear briefing notes with strong attention to detail
• Approach prospects via email outreach and LinkedIn with a highly targeted, personalised approach, and manage responses
• Book calls between prospects and the Series Development Leads
• Prepare bespoke presentations for each call
• Meet daily and weekly activity targets to ensure projects remain on track
• Create weekly activity reports for the wider team
• Attend regular sales and project meetings to review progress and identify new opportunities
• Provide general administrative and project support
• Independently manage assigned research and outreach activity across multiple projects, prioritising workload effectively and proactively identifying next steps and opportunities.

Skills, experience and interests:

Skills:

• Ability to digest, process and condense complex information into a clear, articulate analysis / brief
• Excellent writing and email communication skills, with strong spelling, punctuation, grammar and attention to detail
• Ability to convey clear, concise messages with the appropriate tone
• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to assess organisations and opportunities through both an editorial and commercial lens
• Strong time management and organisational skills, with the ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Good judgement and initiative, with the confidence to make decisions and progress work independently
• Self-motivated, ambitious and comfortable working towards clear activity and performance targets
• Experience using CRM systems
• Proficient in Excel
• A collaborative team player
• Proactive, positive and enthusiastic approach
• Experience using AI tools, particularly ChatGPT

Experience:

• Minimum of 12 months’ experience in a commercial, sales and/or research role
• We are open to a range of backgrounds, but candidates must demonstrate excellent written communication skills and the ability to research and understand complex topics
• This role may suit candidates with either an academic or commercial background

Interests:

• A genuine thirst for knowledge
• A desire to make a positive difference in the world

Why work with CWP?

• Clear opportunities for progression as you develop your skills, demonstrate strong performance and take on greater ownership and responsibility within the team
• Contribute to work with real purpose, communicating solutions to sustainable development challenges
• The opportunity to learn a huge amount across a range of fascinating topics
• Work with a small, friendly, and inclusive team based in the UK, France and South Africa
• Fully remote working with flexible hours.

If this sounds like the role for you, and you are excited by the opportunity to use your skills to create a better tomorrow, we’d love to hear from you! Please email Millie Gallagher, Partnership Development Manager at CWP at millie@contentwithpurpose.co.uk to apply.

Please note: CWP is committed to applying its equal opportunities policy at all stages of recruitment and selection. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, age, pregnancy or maternity leave or trade union membership.