Social Media Officer

The Scout Association

Gilwell Park, Essex, United Kingdom (On-site)

£33476.00-£33476.00 per year

Permanent

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Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an Social Media Officer to join our team based in Chingford London.

Location: Gilwell Park. Chingford, London (with hybrid working)

Salary: £33,476 per annum, Band E, Level 3 (Inclusive of Outer London Weighting)

Term: Permanent

Working Hours: 35 hours per week - There is an on-call element of the role
where the post holder will monitor social media comments on evenings and weekends. This will be done on a rota basis.

We’re Scouts and everyone’s welcome here - all genders, races and backgrounds. Right across the UK, we help over 400,000 young people aged 4-25 gain skills for life and find their place in the world. We help them speak up, play their part and shine bright.

The Social Media Officer Role:

Working in Social Media, you’ll be plugged in on all the news and updates from Scouts. You’ll have opportunity to be involved in developing our social media content to best connect with the Movement and demonstrate the impact and value of Scouting to external audiences.

You'll be joining a team that is passionate, creative and loves what we do. We pride ourselves in providing excellent training, mentoring and support to match your career aspirations, making this a perfect environment to learn and grow your communications and marketing skills. We work collaboratively across the comms and creative team.

Key responsibilities as our Social Media Officer:

Generate bold, creative, share-worthy content that develops the Scout brand and reflects our values, connecting with partners and ambassadors
Maintain a solid understanding of the changing needs of our social audiences and the channels they use, plan and schedule organic and paid social campaigns
Analyse ongoing results to identify trends and insights. Share insight to the wider team to reflect goals, and share learnings on how this will link to SEO
Manage dialogue with Scouts social media communities by responding to and driving conversations

What we are looking for in our Social Media Officer:

Excellent knowledge of mainstream social media platforms including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook, an understanding of their content formats and how audiences use them.
Digital content creation experience for social media for a brand
Video content creation: including attending events and video shoots to get mobile and platform friendly content to engage various audiences and editing footage in a way that suits the platform
Successful experience of using social media platforms to run paid campaigns to engage new audiences by interests/demographics
Experience discussing customer or user needs with colleagues and stakeholders to align around the customer/user’s goals.
Experience testing content and interpreting data.
Demonstrable experience of growing and maintaining social media communities, including reputation management

What we can offer you as our Social Media Officer:

Work in a way that suits you, your role and your team
Be proud to say you’re part of a team with Investors in People (Gold)
Plenty of opportunity for learning and development
28 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays rising to 32 days after two years
Four extra days to look after your family when they need you
Five volunteering days to contribute to a cause that matters to you
Three extra days off in December between 27 and 31 December (that’s our gift to you)

We are proud to be a family-friendly employer and offer…