Job Vacancies at Gecko Five

This role reports to the Editorial Lead and works closely with our content editors, marketing team, and sales team.

Gecko Five is looking for a Writer/Creator to develop long-form and short-form content delivering exceptional narrative storytelling alongside vital interviews and conversations. You will work closely with the Editorial Lead to help build the Ball Gecko’s authority as the primary destination for nuanced, thought-provoking, and entertaining shows, essays, op-eds, and reported pieces that explore the experience of being a fan, player, or key figure in the football theatre.

You will be responsible for drafting, writing, and voicing materials that elevate the conversation around football through strong writing, thoughtful angles, and an instinct for the things that delight, torment, and puzzle fans and the football-curious alike.

The ideal candidate will be well-versed in football fan culture — from the conflicted emotions around “Liverpool’s long-awaited title win” to the way fans are navigating the injury and covid-19 roller-coaster of 2020 — and be as comfortable coordinating celebrity interviews and securing exclusives as reaching out to influencers and writers to commission columns, personal essays, and op-eds. A dedication to service, humor, and inclusivity is key for this role, along with a solid network of freelancers from a diverse array of backgrounds.

We would prefer a candidate based in the Lagos mainland area, however, are open to accepting qualified remote candidates.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Editorial Lead and ‘Chief Hustler’ to entertain and inform our audience by presenting information in an accessible, simple, and attractive way.
• Collaborate closely with the culture and editorial(reportage) teams to ensure the brand’s coverage of trending and timely topics is fresh, thoughtful, and informed
• Be reactive to the day’s football(sports) news and brainstorm creative second-hour or second-day angles, while also thinking about the stories that aren’t being told and how to bring new voices—and topics—to Gecko Five platforms
• Produce an average of between 3 and 10 stories per week.

Requirements

• 5+ years editing and writing experience in (ideally) digital media, with a proven interest in football(sports) topics
• Proven track record of producing articles that move the conversation
• Ability to maintain natural gait and projection in front of the camera.
• Experience scripting or editing compelling, character-driven stories or narrative podcasts
• Ability to write and edit quickly without compromising brand integrity, voice, or mission
• Strong display-writing and story-packaging skills
• Strong associations within African and global pop culture and a keen understanding of what’s next in the millennial and Gen-Z subcultures
• Comfortable networking and attending events on behalf of the brand
• A sense of fun, urgency, and a commitment to being part of a tight-knit team
• A sense for what makes a Gecko story
• Excite and inspire with an infectious curiosity and optimistic approach.

Gecko Five is positioned to become the fastest-growing modern sports media brand in Africa. We aim to create the largest reach and engagement of millennials and Gen Z audiences across Africa. Every month, African millennial audiences will turn to Gecko Five publications across multiple channels for impactful conversation around the interests and issues engaging sports today. Gecko Five was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

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We are looking for a passionate Basketball, UFC and Formula 1 fan that can create technical content for our sports media network.

We are looking for a Content Creator for Social to transform how we are culturally relevant to urban millennials and Gen-Z Africans on social. You will be working on strategy and off-platform storytelling. We’re looking for someone with a passion for serving the audience through short, light-weight stories on social. The right candidate is a highly creative thinker and storyteller, with strong writing/presentation skills. You should be able to translate the Gecko voice and tone to social media, track audience trends and social conversations, and make complex news accessible and informative for our audience on social media.

You will be a part of the Gecko content team, a team of creators whose focus is to increase traffic to our channels, increase loyalty, tell off-platform stories and provide meaningful opportunities for the Gecko audience to engage with sports they are passionate about.

Gecko Five ignites conversations and influences culture. Across digital, podcasts, videos, streaming, and live events, we tell stories that affect our audience’s daily lives and entertain as much as they inform.

We understand People, and we are obsessed with creating/sharing stories about things people are obsessed about. We want to explain sports to Africans by giving them the relevant content and context they need, when they need it, and where they will find it.

Gecko Five is positioned to become the fastest-growing modern sports media brand in Africa. We aim to create the largest reach and engagement of millennials and Gen Z audiences across Africa. Every month, African millennial audiences will turn to Gecko Five publications across multiple channels for impactful conversation around the interests and issues engaging sports today. Gecko Five was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

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We created Gecko 5 to solve a problem in how sports content is consumed and shared in Africa. We are bringing African fans into the conversations about sports – they are passionate about.

We are looking for a Content Creator for Social to transform how we are culturally relevant to urban millennials and Gen-Z Africans on social. You will be working on strategy and off-platform storytelling. We’re looking for someone with a passion for serving the audience through short, light-weight stories on social. The right candidate is a highly creative thinker and storyteller, with strong writing/presentation skills. You should be able to translate the Gecko voice and tone to social media, track audience trends and social conversations, and make complex news accessible and informative for our audience on social media.

You will be a part of the Gecko content team, a team of creators whose focus is to increase traffic to our channels, increase loyalty, tell off-platform stories and provide meaningful opportunities for the Gecko audience to engage with sports they are passionate about.

Gecko Five ignites conversations and influences culture. Across digital, podcasts, videos, streaming, and live events, we tell stories that affect our audience’s daily lives and entertain as much as they inform.

We understand People, and we are obsessed with creating/sharing stories about things people are obsessed about. We want to explain sports to Africans by giving them the relevant content and context they need, when they need it, and where they will find it.

Gecko Five is positioned to become the fastest-growing modern sports media brand in Africa. We aim to create the largest reach and engagement of millennials and Gen Z audiences across Africa. Every month, African millennial audiences will turn to Gecko Five publications across multiple channels for impactful conversation around the interests and issues engaging sports today. Gecko Five was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

Please send a cover letter, resume, and link to your social media pages (Twitter and Instagram), relevant writing and editing samples to recruitment@geckofive.com.

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This role reports to the Lead Designer/Illustrator and works closely with our content editors, marketing team, and growth team. You will work with the art department to bring big branded content ideas to life through pitch decks, mock-ups, social media design, and more.

This junior designer will use a combination of design knowledge
and inquisitive curiosity to create content for both Gecko Five content channels.

An interest in football and sports is a plus, as you will work closely on creative visual material for sports passionate audiences.

This role is a great place to launch a career in advertising and media where you will be challenged to wear multiple hats, liaise with various departments across the organization, and engage with a broad scope of advertisers.

You will:

• Work collaboratively with the branded content team and production team to visually tell stories about what’s next about global sports culture for Africans.
• Have a multi-faceted design capacity to shift between various types of design work, moving beyond designing for digital interfaces and mobile to designing printed event collateral, presentation design, and more.
• Be passionate about working on a suite of websites/media accounts dedicated to millennial Africans and various topics surrounding football and sports.

You are:

• An intermediate/early expert: with an internship or other previous team
• experience under your belt, you’re ready to take on a new and exciting role.
• Technical: You are a master of the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Collaborative: You love to brainstorm and work with others, whether you are 1-1 with an art director or rolling your sleeves up with the team, you do your part to contribute to the creation of a killer execution.
• Communicative: As a designer, your goal is to communicate a complex set of ideas, visually, in the most simplistic and direct, manner. That expertise in
• communication should be expressed in all of your dealings with team
• members across the organization.
• Detailed Oriented: You are able to manage multiple projects at once while
• maintaining attention to detail with each project.
• A self-starter: always curious and excited to learn with one finger to the pulse of the latest trends in youth culture, advertising, and media.
• Gecko Five is positioned to become the fastest-growing modern sports media brand in Africa. We aim to create the largest reach and engagement of millennials and Gen Z audiences across Africa.

Every month, African millennial audiences will turn to Gecko Five publications across multiple channels for impactful conversation around the interests and issues engaging sports today. Gecko Five was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.