Job Description

Are you ready to use your strategic marketing and communications skills to work with a pioneering social enterprise to expand access to clear vision and improve the lives of millions across Africa? VisionSpring seeks a collaborative and creative Africa Marketing & Communications Manager to elevate our brand presence, strengthen partner relationships, and support our sales growth across Sub-Saharan Africa. This role develops and executes regional marketing and communications strategies that increase awareness of the power of VisionSpring eyeglasses as a simple, proven tool for learning, earning, safety, and well-being.

You will work closely with country teams across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Malawi to ensure they have the collateral, messaging, and branded assets they need for vision screening camps, outreach activities, and stakeholder events. You will work collaboratively to enable sales team to promote eyeglasses to institutional customers and ensure loyal purchases. You will gather stories and data from the field, shape compelling narratives, and distribute content across owned, earned, and paid channels. You will also support strategic partner engagement, donor communications, and co-branded initiatives with organizations who share our mission.

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.

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.

ABOUT US

VisionSpring increases lifelong earning, learning, safety, and well-being through eyeglasses for people vulnerable to poverty. We believe in the wonder of clear vision for everybody. Our vision is to ensure that everyone who needs eyeglasses will have them by 2050, and your role as a Senior Proposal Writer will be instrumental in achieving this inspiring goal.

We sell and deliver radically affordable optical products and services and develop markets for eyeglasses. This 700-year-old technology has failed to reach 1 billion people 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.

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