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Social Media Content Analyst

Johannesburg, Gauteng💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-26 → 2026-09-27

Core

Transform social media and content performance data into actionable insights to improve reach, engagement, watch time, and overall content effectiveness.

Role type

Social Media Content Analyst

Builds

Dashboards and reporting views for marketing and creative teams

Domain

Social media analytics and digital content performance

Deliverable

dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Social platform analytics, dashboarding, quantitative reasoning, data interpretation, Excel/Google Sheets, social listening tools, competitor benchmarking, testing frameworks

Preferred skills

Experience in social-first brands or digital agencies, familiarity with native platform tools (Meta, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X)

Responsibilities

Monitor and analyze social media performance metrics daily/weekly/monthly, build and maintain reporting dashboards, identify trends and creative approaches driving performance, translate data into recommendations for content and creative teams, conduct multi-level performance analysis, benchmark competitors, track organic/paid/influencer content, develop testing frameworks, flag performance changes, improve data quality and tagging conventions, prepare insight summaries

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on analyst

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