Community & Events Channel Executive

About the role

The Community & Events Channel Executive manages customer acquisition and engagement through communities and events. You will research audiences, build community plans, coordinate event strategy and promotion, manage registrations and attendee journeys, support lead capture and follow-up, and track performance. This is a growth role focused on turning communities and events into measurable commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Research target communities, audiences and event opportunities.
• Develop community and event plans for assigned clients.
• Coordinate community-building and engagement activity.
• Plan and support event strategy, promotion and registration.
• Coordinate partners, speakers, vendors and other event contributors where required.
• Manage attendee communication and customer journeys.
• Coordinate lead capture during events and community activities.
• Drive post-event follow-up and conversion activity.
• Track registrations, attendance, engagement, leads and conversions.
• Coordinate creative and promotional materials with specialists.
• Prepare event and community performance reports.
• Take increasing ownership of channel performance as competence grows.

What you bring

• Training or practical exposure in Digital Marketing, Community Management, Events, Business Development or a related field.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Strong organisation and coordination skills.
• Confidence interacting with people, communities and external stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple moving parts and deadlines.
• Ability to take initiative and follow through without constant reminders.
• Commercial thinking and an understanding of how events and communities support growth.
• Ability to coordinate creative, event and operational contributors.
• Willingness to receive feedback and improve quickly.

Mode of Operation

This is a six-month structured work-experience programme built around real responsibility with supervision. Although this is an entry-level role, you are not joining SÓKÈ simply to assist at events, post reminders in communities or carry out isolated administrative tasks. You will be expected to take responsibility for helping assigned communities and events achieve clear growth and commercial objectives. Depending on the client and assignment you are working on, this would include researching communities, planning engagement, developing event strategies, coordinating promotion, managing registrations, working with partners, managing attendee journeys, capturing leads and driving post-event follow-up. You will always have access to support and escalation where required. However, supervision should not be confused with someone else constantly deciding what activity should happen or how the event should move forward. We are looking for people who can understand an audience, organise people around a shared objective and actively turn community and event activity into measurable outcomes. The programme follows two stages: Months 1–3 — Prove You will take on real community and event responsibilities while working closely with experienced team members. This stage is about proving that you can organise effectively, communicate professionally, coordinate contributors, follow through and take ownership of assigned activities. Months 4–6 — Perform Participants who demonstrate strong capability will be expected to operate with greater independence, manage more complex community or event responsibilities and take stronger ownership of channel performance. Reporting You will report to the relevant Channel Lead, Project Manager or designated SÓKÈ leader responsible for the client engagement. Your supervisor exists to provide direction, quality control, feedback and escalation support. They are not there to plan every activity, manage every contributor or run every event on your behalf. As your competence grows, you should require less day-to-day direction and become increasingly capable of independently managing assigned community and event responsibilities within the agreed strategy. Working Rhythm Community & Events at SÓKÈ is coordination- and execution-focused. Your week would involve researching audiences, planning community activity, developing event timelines, coordinating promotion, managing registrations, communicating with attendees and partners, monitoring engagement, preparing event materials, capturing leads and reviewing post-event performance. You will frequently need to ask: Who are we trying to bring together? Why should they participate? What needs to happen next? Who owns each part of the experience? How do we turn attendance and engagement into meaningful business outcomes? You should be comfortable working in an environment where successful execution depends on strong organisation, communication and follow-through. Availability You are expected to commit a minimum of 20 hours per week to the programme. Depending on your assignments, event schedules and availability, your workload can increase toward 40 hours per week. SÓKÈ currently operates primarily from Abuja. A significant portion of planning and coordination will happen remotely, but you will be required to attend physical events, activations, meetings and other client-specific activities when your assigned work requires it. Collaboration As a Community & Events Channel Executive Intern, you would coordinate work involving Community Managers, Event Producers, copywriters, designers, video and media specialists, Strategy Analysts, Project Managers and other contributors assigned to the client. Your responsibility is to own the community or event channel. Specialists support specific areas of execution such as production, design, media or logistics. They do not replace your responsibility for understanding the objective, coordinating activity and monitoring channel performance. How Work Is Reviewed Your performance will be evaluated based on more than whether an event happened or a community remained active. We will pay attention to whether you: take ownership, organise effectively, communicate professionally, coordinate contributors, follow through consistently, manage attendee and community experience well, capture and track leads properly, identify problems early, connect activity to commercial outcomes, and become increasingly capable of managing the channel independently. Performance is reviewed weekly, with a formal performance gate at Month 3 and a final evaluation at Month 6. The standard becomes higher as your responsibility increases.

Compensation

This is a paid, project-based internship. You will earn a fixed service charge for each active client channel or workstream assigned to you. Channel Executives work across multiple client projects based on demonstrated capacity, performance and available engagements. Your applicable service charge and payment terms will be communicated clearly during the recruitment and placement process. Earnings are dependent on active client assignments and are not structured as a fixed monthly salary.

Career Projection

The Community & Events Channel Executive Internship is designed as a pathway into professional Community Management, Events and Channel Management. If you successfully complete the programme and meet SÓKÈ's performance standards, you can be considered for retention as a Community & Events Channel Executive at SÓKÈ where an appropriate opening exists. Where SÓKÈ does not have immediate capacity to retain you, strong performers can be recommended for community, events, experiential or growth opportunities with SÓKÈ clients or within our wider professional network. If neither option is immediately available, you leave with documented experience managing real community and event-led growth activity and remain part of SÓKÈ's priority talent pool for future opportunities. If retained, you continue developing by managing larger communities, more complex events, broader client portfolios and increasingly significant channel responsibility. Over time, strong performance can create a path into senior Channel Management, Community Leadership, Events Leadership or other leadership positions within SÓKÈ. Intern → Community & Events Channel Executive → Senior Channel Responsibility → Community / Events Leadership Progression is based on demonstrated competence, channel performance, reliability, available opportunities and SÓKÈ's organisational needs.