Careers

ADA is a small, CHE-accredited creative institution in the middle of Cape Town. Our building is full of concept artists, game developers, graphic designers and product designers making work that deserves to be seen. When we hire, we hire people who want to be in that room.

Content Creator and Social Media Coordinator

Contract position. About 8 hours a week, usually two half days. Our students make new work every single day, and most of it never reaches the people who should see it. We are looking for a storyteller who captures what is happening inside the academy, turns it into content fast with the help of AI tools, and keeps it flowing across every social channel. The brand, the templates and the Open Day calendar are supplied. Your job is to make the stories happen, week after week.

• Capture. Walk the studios, film projects in progress, interview students, lecturers and alumni, and collect finished artwork from the lecturers.
• Produce in batches. Turn a week of material into posts in one sitting, using our templates, Claude for editing, captions and channel versions, and Blotato to schedule and publish everywhere at once.
• Work in sprints. We plan from one Open Day to the next, each with a clear goal. You build the momentum and the urgency as the dates approach.
• Tell four stories. Concept Art, Game Development, Graphic Design and Product Design (UX/UI) attract different people. Each should look and sound like itself inside one ADA brand.
• Measure. Check what worked each week and do more of it.

Student work is the hero of everything we post. Use AI freely to animate artwork, build videos and adapt formats, but the student's original artwork is always the basis and stays unaltered, so no AI manipulation of it is visible.

We would rather be clear up front than waste your time.

• It is not a creative director role. The look and feel is already set.
• It is not a brand development role. No style guide work is expected from you.
• It is not a media buying role. Our agency runs the paid campaigns. You supply some of the creative for them.
• It is not a strategy role. The calendar and the weekly themes are supplied to you, although we do want you spotting the moments that are not on it.
• It is not a four hours per post role. We want volume and momentum, built on templates and good tools.
• It is not full time. It is a contract, running initially through to February 2027.

• A freelance content creator looking for a regular anchor client
• A social media specialist with room for one more day a week
• A marketer or creative working part time
• Someone building their own freelance content business
• An experienced professional who wants flexible work
• A younger creator with strong practical skills and enough experience to work independently

Age and years of experience matter considerably less to us than reliability, initiative, taste and the ability to consistently get the work done.

Someone who walks into the building and thinks: that would make a great post.

Someone who notices the work being made, the people behind it, what is happening in a studio, a good story or an event coming up. Captures it, packages it properly and gets it published. You should be as comfortable pulling out a phone to catch something as it happens as you are sitting down afterwards to edit, schedule and publish it.

The point is not to make attractive content. The point is to make this place feel active, interesting and worth following, and to bring people through the door.

There is no CV upload and no cover letter. Round one is a short written interview. It takes about 12 minutes and it asks you to show us your work and tell us how you actually go about making it. If your work fits, we come back to you within a week with a short paid brief.

We keep a file. Send your portfolio and a short note about what you do to info@ada.ac.za and we will come back to you when something fits.