VisionSpring is creating access to affordable eyewear, everywhere. Clear vision creates opportunities for increased learning, work, safety, civic participation, and quality of life. As a social enterprise, social change motivates us first. Our focus on sales and revenue targets serves and advances our mission objective—to increase functioning, productivity, and income earning potential for our low-income consumers by correcting refractive error and presbyopia with eyeglasses. We are working to transform the systemic dysfunction of an optical market that has failed to deliver eyeglasses—a 700-year-old technology—to 2.7 billion consumers in need of vision correction, most of whom live on less than $4 a day.
We serve low-income consumers, not as beneficiaries but as customers. Our customers expect a high-quality and affordable product, and they will spend limited discretionary income for the immediate and tangible benefits of vision correction. By selling eyeglasses, we awaken new demand and seed a viable market. By selling new eyeglasses we are able to serve four times as many people per dollar input than the alternative of donating recycled ones. To efficiently scale, we must deliver each new unit at a lower cost. We run our business on both sales metrics and social impact measures. We use a range of organizational forms and practices to get the job done. We believe in scaling our impact, not our organization. We are a lean team of doers.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Africa Marketing & Communications Manager
Location: Nigeria
Description
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of impact and execution—someone who wants to build, refine, tell, and amplify meaningful stories that move people to action.
- This role offers a significant growth pathway inside a rapidly scaling global social enterprise.
- You will help shape how VisionSpring is seen and understood across the African continent, and your work will directly contribute to improving livelihoods for workers, students, drivers, farmers, artisans, caregivers, and entrepreneurs whose lives change when they can see clearly.
Job Responsibilities
Content Creation / Communications Marketing Strategy, Planning, and Campaigns.Events & Stakeholder Engagement:
- Drive development of high-quality written, visual, and digital content rooted in the VisionSpring brand voice, messaging, and identity.
- Work with regional sales, program, and field teams across six African markets to source, shape, and refine compelling story material.
- Ensure country teams have on-brand collateral for partner engagements, screenings, and community-facing activities.
- Produce and adapt content for donor communications, partner outreach, media opportunities, and programs.
- Contribute to website content, social media campaigns, newsletters, fact sheets, pitch decks, one-pagers, scripts, and impact stories.
- Help develop branding and communication strategies that increase awareness, engagement and commitment with all stakeholders (consumers, educational and health institutions, government agencies, NGOs, CSR and philanthropic investors, and VisionSpring team members.
- Coordinate with the Global Multimedia Manager, Global Communications Manager, and external creatives as needed.
- Develop and execute marketing plans that engage institutional partners, B2B customers, communities, and donors to amplify VisionSpring’s products and impact, and generate new leads
- Support messaging and sales enablement for VisionSpring’s programs, products, and fundraising efforts, including sales kits, external/internal presentations and reporting templates
- Track marketing KPIs (including lead generation and loyalty) and contribute to reports for internal leadership and donor audiences.
- Maintain inventory of all marketing, campaign and promotional material available in region, and plan for refreshment and new assets aligned with branding requirements
- Collaborate with stakeholders to plan and manage marketing budgets using Excel and internal planning processes, with an eye towards cost-efficiency and alignment with organizational and regional goals
- Project manage campaigns, events and promotional activities, with a focus on lead acquisition, nurturing and follow-through
- Manage engagements with marketing and/or creative agencies and other outsourced support.
- Plan and manage virtual and in-person events, including partner convenings, donor visits, media engagements, conferences, and activations.
- Support vision screening camp visibility, community events, and partner campaigns with clear, compelling branding.
- Represent VisionSpring at regional industry forums and coalition working groups.
Job Requirements
- 5 – 8 years of relevant work experience.
- Demonstrated experience in B2B, partner-oriented, and/or donor-facing marketing.
- Excellent writing and narrative development skills in English; proficiency in a major African regional language preferred.
- Experience planning and implementing campaigns, managing events, and coordinating across multiple teams.
- Demonstrated Microsoft Office capabilities (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook), and experience with internal collaboration platforms
- Impeccable attention to detail with strong project management, organizational, and analytical skills. Strong prioritization, organization, and accountability.
- A strong ability to write copy, drive content creation, marketing program implementation, design, and events
- Comfort with a flexible work schedule and working across multiple time zones, including some late evenings to sync with global teams
- Experience, and a commitment to, working respectfully with a diverse team; experience collaborating with outside consultants to move projects forward.
- Demonstrated interest in social enterprise models and desire to learn how to articulate and share VisionSpring’s unique approach.
- Must meet the highest standards of ethics and personal integrity, with a demonstrated capacity for discretion and for handling sensitive information with care.
- Must be legally and permanently authorized to work in Nigeria or Ghana.
- Must be able to travel, up to 25% of time, for domestic and international assignments to locations with limited infrastructure.
- You will impress us if you have any of the following: (1) Advanced degree in marketing, branding, communications, journalism, public relations, or another related field; (2) Experience working with the media (print, television, online) including the development, successful delivery, and uptake of press releases; (3) Experience working/studying across languages and cultures; (4) Experience crafting communications for social enterprises and/or nonprofits. (5) Understanding of the PR supply chain; and/or (6) Experience using marketing automation platforms.
About You:
- A strong communicator and storyteller, exceptional in written and verbal English and confident in at least one major African regional language.
- Experienced in communicating to B2B, B2P (partner), and donor audiences, and able to articulate both product value and social impact.
- Fundamentally sales-minded and ROI-driven, ensuring that all marketing & communications activities are driving cost-effective business growth
- Skilled at content gathering and packaging—you know how to find stories and shape them for partners, donors, customers, and media.
- A operational and practical project manager that finds quick solutions to barriers
- Brand-centric and detail-oriented, able to ensure visual and narrative consistency across markets and materials.
- Comfortable working across departments (finance, supply chain, sales, resource mobilization, programs) to align priorities and support execution.
- Strong in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint (story + visual presentation), Word (clear narrative writing), and Excel (planning, budgeting, tracking).
- Energized by collaboration across cultures, time zones, and thematic areas.
- Motivated by the opportunity to support frontline teams to dispense eyeglasses and collect the impact stories of workers, students, drivers, and families whose lives are improved through clear vision.
- Flexible, resourceful, and able to navigate change with focus and follow-through.