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Copywriter Marketing

Full time Kenilworth - Cape Town, ZA
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago 97 views 0 applications

Job Description

We need to output clean semantic HTML with

,

,
  • . No CSS, no inline styles, no
    , no
    . Must preserve all original content word-for-word, no addition, removal, summarizing, rephrasing. So we need to extract the text content from the given HTML snippet, preserving words exactly, then wrap sections with appropriate tags. We need to identify sections: Intro paragraph(s), then maybe "MINIMUM QUALIFICATION:", "MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:", "COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:", "KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:", "Closing Date:", then maybe italic paragraph and "Discover who we are". Use

    for section headers. We must not add or remove any content. So we need to keep all text exactly as appears, including punctuation, spaces? We'll need to output HTML with the same text content. We must not add extra text like "Here is". Just output HTML. We need to parse the given snippet: It starts with:

    It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

    Then several empty

    lines. Then text: "We are one of South Africa’s largest retailers and we have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, highly conceptual mid-weight copywriter. This role is for an in-house creative team based in Cape Town. Your goal will be translating marketing and branding strategies into innovative and exciting campaigns and will see you develop effective and meaningful ideas, content, copy and scripts.

    We are looking for someone with excellent writing and research skills to be our full-time, in-house copywriter. As a member of the creative team, the copywriter will write and edit content for a variety of campaigns, working closely with the creative team to brainstorm ideas, develop concepts, and articulate messaging. The successful candidate will be a quick learner who has a versatile writing style.

    You will need to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with a high-volume workload often requiring short turnaround times.
    Raise the bar continually for writing fresh copy that connects with a desired audience and drives action
    Be adept at varying the voice, style, and other characteristics of messaging based on the industry, company, or target audience." Then empty

    lines. Then

    MINIMUM QUALIFICATION:

    Relevant tertiary qualification 

    Previous experience working closely with an Art Director (Advantageous)

    Then

    MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:

    5 years’ experience in copywriting for advertising or marketing agencies (conceptual copywriter experience)

    Demonstrated knowledge/understanding of storytelling principles across various channels and digital 

    You must have previous advertising agency, copywriting experience.

    Please submit a relevant portfolio of work along with your CV on application

    Then

    COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:

    Exceptional writing and research skills 

    Ability to work independently or with a team to meet deadlines 

    Excellent organizational skills and multitasking ability 

    Critical thinking skills 

    Ability to influence people through creative ideas and written work

    Team player 

    Good interpersonal skills

    Then

    KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

    Working with the creative team to create exceptional creative work 

    Using key messages to develop work for multiple communication channels, including ATL, digital and non-traditional 

    Producing a variety of high-quality copy solutions, from punchy short-form to persuasive long-form.

     Interpret creative briefs to develop concepts for execution with assigned brands 

    Research and understand a client’s needs and target audiences, through online searches, reviews of existing research, interviews with subject-matter experts, and in-person meetings 

    Write original copy and edit content for a range of marketing and communications materials 

    Collaborate with a team of account managers and creative staff, from concept development to delivery of final product 

    Present copy concepts and final deliverables to internal team — and to client representative when requested — and participate occasionally in client pitches 

    Revise copy based on internal feedback

    Maintain up-to-date knowledge of communications- and client-related industry trends

    Stay current on the appropriate style guidelines and brand voice for consistent messaging

    Then

    Closing Date: 30 August 2026

    If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

    Discover who we are

    We need to preserve all content word-for-word. That includes the HTML entities like ' which should stay as is? The original text includes ' for apostrophe. We must keep them exactly. Also there are non-breaking spaces maybe shown as  ? Actually there is a space after some lines like "qualification " (maybe a non-breaking space). We need to keep them as they appear. In the given snippet, there is a space after qualification then a non-breaking space? It shows "qualification ". We'll keep that as is. We need to convert to semantic HTML: Use

    for paragraphs and general text. Use

    for section headers (e.g., Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Education, Experience, Skills, How to Apply, Key Duties, About the Role). Here we have sections: MINIMUM QUALIFICATION, MINIMUM EXPERIENCE, COMPETENCIES REQUIRED, KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES, Closing Date. Also maybe introductory paragraph(s). Also the italic line and "Discover who we are" maybe as paragraphs. We must not add or remove content. So we need to wrap each piece of text in appropriate tags. We need to decide what constitutes a paragraph. The original has many

    tags, some empty. We should ignore empty

    tags? The instruction: "Preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase". If we remove empty

    tags, we are removing content (the empty tags). But empty tags have no visible content; they are just markup. The instruction likely refers to textual content, not markup. However, to be safe, we could keep them as empty

    tags? But we are not allowed to use
    or
    , but we can use

    . Empty

    tags are permissible? They said use

    for introductory paragraphs and general text. Empty paragraphs have no text; maybe we can omit them as they add no content. The instruction "do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase" refers to the job description text, not the HTML tags. I think we can safely ignore empty

    tags because they contain no text. We'll not add any text, just omit empty paragraphs. We need to keep the exact text strings, including spaces and special characters. Let's extract the textual content in order: 1. "It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!" 2. (then some empty paragraphs, ignore) 3. "We are one of South Africa’s largest retailers and we have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, highly conceptual mid-weight copywriter. This role is for an in-house creative team based in Cape Town. Your goal will be translating marketing and branding strategies into innovative and exciting campaigns and will see you develop effective and meaningful ideas, content, copy and scripts." 4. Then there is a

    which we should treat as a paragraph break? The instruction: No
    tags. We need to preserve content word-for-word, but we cannot use
    . However we can represent line breaks via

    tags. The original had

    indicating a paragraph break. We'll convert that to a new

    . So after the first sentence block, we have a line break then "We are looking for someone with excellent writing and research skills to be our full-time, in-house copywriter. As a member of the creative team, the copywriter will write and edit content for a variety of campaigns, working closely with the creative team to brainstorm ideas, develop concepts, and articulate messaging. The successful candidate will be a quick learner who has a versatile writing style." 5. Then another

    then "You will need to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with a high-volume workload often requiring short turnaround times." 6. Then a
    then "Raise the bar continually for writing fresh copy that connects with a desired audience and drives action" 7. Then a
    then "Be adept at varying the voice, style, and other characteristics of messaging based on the industry, company, or target audience." Thus the introductory section comprises multiple sentences separated by line breaks. We could keep them as separate

    tags, preserving the text exactly. The original had line breaks via
    . We'll convert each segment separated by
    into its own

    . However we must ensure we don't lose any text. Let's split: Segment A: "We are one of South Africa’s largest retailers and we have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, highly conceptual mid-weight copywriter. This role is for an in-house creative team based in Cape Town. Your goal will be translating marketing and branding strategies into innovative and exciting campaigns and will see you develop effective and meaningful ideas, content, copy and scripts." Segment B: "We are looking for someone with excellent writing and research skills to be our full-time, in-house copywriter. As a member of the creative team, the copywriter will write and edit content for a variety of campaigns, working closely with the creative team to brainstorm ideas, develop concepts, and articulate messaging. The successful candidate will be a quick learner who has a versatile writing style." Segment C: "You will need to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with a high-volume workload often requiring short turnaround times." Segment D: "Raise the bar continually for writing fresh copy that connects with a desired audience and drives action" Segment E: "Be adept at varying the voice, style, and other characteristics of messaging based on the industry, company, or target audience." Note there may be trailing spaces. We'll keep as is. After that, there are empty

    tags, then the MINIMUM QUALIFICATION header. We'll treat each ...: as a section header, wrap in

    . The header text includes the bold tags; we need to preserve the text word-for-word, including the tags? The instruction says preserve original content word-for-word. The original content includes MINIMUM QUALIFICATION: inside a

    . If we strip the tags, we are removing markup, but the textual content "MINIMUM QUALIFICATION:" remains. The tags are not part of the job description text; they are formatting. The instruction likely means preserve the textual content, not the HTML markup. Since we are outputting new HTML, we can represent the header with

    and the text inside without . That would be preserving the textual content "MINIMUM QUALIFICATION:" (the same words). The tags are not content; they are styling. So it's okay. Thus we will output:

    MINIMUM QUALIFICATION:

    Then the following paragraphs under it: "Relevant tertiary qualification " and "Previous experience working closely with an Art Director (Advantageous)". There's also an empty

    after that; we can ignore. Similarly for MINIMUM EXPERIENCE: header then paragraphs: "5 years’ experience in copywriting for advertising or marketing agencies (conceptual copywriter experience)" "Demonstrated knowledge/understanding of storytelling principles across various channels and digital " "You must have previous advertising agency, copywriting experience." "Please submit a relevant portfolio of work along with your CV on application" Then an empty

    . Then COMPETENCIES REQUIRED: header then list items each as

    . Could also be

    • but the instruction says use
      • for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills). So we should convert those to list items. However we must preserve content word-for-word; converting to
      • does not change the text. So we can wrap each line in
      • inside a
          . That's acceptable. Similarly for KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES: we should use
          • for list items (duties). So we will convert each line to
          • . For the closing date: we have

            Closing Date: 30 August 2026

            . We'll make

            Closing Date: 30 August 2026

            maybe? Or we could keep as

            but it's a header-like. The instruction says use

            for section headers (e.g., Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Education, Experience, Skills, How to Apply, Key Duties, About the Role). Closing Date is not listed but could be considered a section header. Safer to treat as

            as well. After that, there is an italic paragraph: "

            If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

            ". We'll convert to

            with the italic text inside? We cannot use tag? The instruction only mentions

            ,

            ,
            • . It didn't forbid other tags, but says use those for specific purposes. It didn't say we cannot use other tags like . However to be safe, we could just output the text as a

              without italic tags, preserving the textual content. The italic tags are styling; we can drop them. The text inside is: "If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!" We'll keep that. Then a

              with "Discover who we are". We'll output as

              . We must ensure we preserve all textual content, including spaces and special characters like '. We'll keep them exactly. Now we need to produce HTML without any extra explanation. Let's construct: Start with introductory paragraphs: we have 5 segments. We'll wrap each in

              . Thus:

              It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

              We are one of South Africa’s largest retailers and we have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, highly conceptual mid-weight copywriter. This role is for an in-house creative team based in Cape Town. Your goal will be translating marketing and branding strategies into innovative and exciting campaigns and will see you develop effective and meaningful ideas, content, copy and scripts.

              We are looking for someone with excellent writing and research skills to be our full-time, in-house copywriter. As a member of the creative team, the copywriter will write and edit content for a variety of campaigns, working closely with the creative team to brainstorm ideas, develop concepts, and articulate messaging. The successful candidate will be a quick learner who has a versatile writing style.

              You will need to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with a high-volume workload often requiring short turnaround times.

              Raise the bar continually for writing fresh copy that connects with a desired audience and drives action

              Be adept at varying the voice, style, and other characteristics of messaging based on the industry, company, or target audience.

              Now section headers:

              MINIMUM QUALIFICATION:

              • Relevant tertiary qualification 
              • Previous experience working closely with an Art Director (Advantageous)
              But note the original had each as separate

              . Using

              • is acceptable. We must preserve the text exactly, including the trailing non-breaking space after qualification. We'll keep that inside
              • . Now

                MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:

                • 5 years’ experience in copywriting for advertising or marketing agencies (conceptual copywriter experience)
                • Demonstrated knowledge/understanding of storytelling principles across various channels and digital 
                • You must have previous advertising agency, copywriting experience.
                • Please submit a relevant portfolio of work along with your CV on application
                Now

                COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:

                • Exceptional writing and research skills 
                • Ability to work independently or with a team to meet deadlines 
                • Excellent organizational skills and multitasking ability 
                • Critical thinking skills 
                • Ability to influence people through creative ideas and written work
                • Team player 
                • Good interpersonal skills
                Now

                KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

                • Working with the creative team to create exceptional creative work 
                • Using key messages to develop work for multiple communication channels, including ATL, digital and non-traditional 
                • Producing a variety of high-quality copy solutions, from punchy short-form to persuasive long-form.

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