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Social Media Officer

Church of England

London (Hybrid)

Up to £42114 per annum

Permanent

Faith-based

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Job description

You will be working with the Social Media Manager to create content for a variety of audiences across our social media channels, with an emphasis on content for a younger and more diverse audience and bringing our digital evangelism, discipleship and common good priorities to life through our various national channels and platforms.

As a member of the Church's multi-award-winning Digital Team, you will develop innovative and strategic social media content and campaigns that invite people to connect with their local church, encourage people to deepen their faith and share inspiring local and national stories of how the Church works for good in communities across England.

You will support the wider Communications department and teams across the National Church Institutions with social media usage across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky LinkedIn and YouTube, with a real passion for building engagement across all social media platforms and reaching new audiences.

Closing Date - 28th September at 23:55.

Strategy and campaigns

Develop a wide range of content, as well as platform strategy to better reach, and grow our different social media audiences.
Research development of platforms and trends to accompany our strategy.
Work with colleagues at the offices of the Archbishops on content and communicate Church of England content plans for key campaigns and ordinary time, identifying opportunities for collaboration.
Generate creative ideas for key campaigns and year-round content.

Content creation and management

Planning, curating, and scheduling daily content for our social media channels, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Bluesky and TikTok, ensuring a broad, high-quality mix of innovative content that meets our goals and is tailored to different audiences.
Liaising with content producers on platform-specific, social-first content.
Liaising with influencers to provide social media content and develop partnerships that will grow awareness of the Church of England among new audiences.
Writing clear, simple and concise copy for the Church of England social media channels.
Working on social media campaigns to support goals of teams across the Church of England, building positive relationships with other teams and advising colleagues on best practice in creating engaging content.
Providing digital support and creating content atonline and onsiteevents, particularly training courses and conferences, including General Synod.

Social media monitoring and community management

Working with the Social Media Manager, coordinating and implementing social media community management on the Church's social platforms, creating engagement and growing our following.
Monitoring our social media channels during working hours to ensure comments, complaints and queries are dealt with appropriately and in good time, identifying issues that need response or escalation.
Co-ordinatingthe out of hours rota for social media channels.

Insights and reporting

Identifying social media opportunities (such as campaigns, social trends, awareness days) through horizon scanning.
Together with the Social Media Manager, produce regular social media analytics and insights, including identifying trends arising from social media feedback, sharing results with key stakeholders and using findings to inform future activity.
Liaise with other members of the Communications team to monitor online activity on key topics.

Other

Contribute to team project planning.
Occasionally take part in webinars and in-person training to equip church leaders and volunteers, as well as NCIs and diocesan staff in use of social media.
Carrying out any other reasonable duties as required.

Essential

Skills/Aptitudes:

Excellent writing, copy-editing and proofreading skills - ability to write clearly without mistakes.
Excellent digital skills, including industry standard tools, particularly digital channel management software such as content management systems (CMSs), social networks, evaluation and analytics tools, such as Sprout Social.
Excellent interpersonal skills, building consensus and positive relationships within and across teams.
Highly organised, and able to maintain this in a fast-paced environment.

Knowledge/Experience:

Experience of working as a social media officer or equivalent role for a large national organisation.
Experience running digital and social campaigns for large organisations.
Experience of social media community management.
Track record of taking projects, ideas and initiatives from concept through to delivery.
Awareness of social media trends and clear understanding of the role of social media within digital marketing and communications.
Understanding of the values and beliefs of the Church of England and of Christianity in general
Experience in growing high-profile social media channels and increasing reach and engagement.

Personal attributes:

Comfortable and confident promoting the Church of England and faith in Jesus Christ in the digital public square.
A desire to bring more people to faith in Jesus Christ and deepen people's faith.
A team player with a can-do attitude, willing to pull together with colleagues at busy times and use professional digital experience to further the work of the Church

Desirable

Knowledge/Experience:

Personal attributes:

Able to demonstrate a resilient approach in the workplace
Genuine enthusiasm for innovation in social media and keeping up to date with social media trends and best practice.

Circumstances:

Able to occasionally travel within England to produce content from different dioceses, churches and other Church of England organisations. You may also be required to assist with social media training of colleagues and other stakeholders.

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Registered Charity

101 - 500

The Church of England’s vocation is and always has been to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ afresh in each generation to the people of England.

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Posted on: 14 September 2026

Closing date: 21 September 2026 at 15:39

Job ref: 333

Tags: Communications

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Social Media Officer

Westway Trust

London, Greater London (On-site)

£18,000 per year (pro-rata of £30,000)

Part-time (24 hours per week, 3 days per week)

Contract (2 year fixed term contract)

Social Welfare

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Westway Trust is seeking a creative and driven Social Media Officer who will play a pivotal role in bringing the Trust’s story to life across our digital channels. You will implement our social media strategy, drive engagement through organic growth, and develop content that demonstrates and promotes our strategic priorities. This role is critical in building meaningful connections between the Trust and the diverse communities we serve across our 23-acre estate.

Key responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

To oversee the social media content calendar and plan, publish and grow day-to-day organic activity across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X and YouTube, supporting the roll-out of new channels including Nextdoor and WhatsApp.
To produce high-quality multimedia content end-to-end, from pitching through to filming, editing and publishing.
To act as the organisation’s digital communications specialist, providing well thought out suggestions on best practice, and to monitor performance and produce monthly reports to improve reach and impact.

Knowledge & Experience:

Experience running a busy content calendar, including brainstorming meetings.
Experience developing, maintaining and analysing the performance of digital channels using social media insights and Google Analytics.
Experience growing and managing online communities day to day.
Strong writing and editing skills, with the ability to produce clear, engaging, accessible content in plain English.
Experience creating static and video content for social media, from pitching through to shooting and editing.
Skilled in one or more of: Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Canva, CapCut, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop.
Demonstrated ability to work across internal departments and generate content for different audiences.
Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to work independently and manage competing deadlines.
A creative, enthusiastic approach to social media, with a willingness to test, experiment, and develop new skills.
Demonstrable understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities and diversity.

The application deadline is Monday, 21 September, when applications will be reviewed and shortlisted for interview. However, we reserve the right to close the application early. An early application is strongly recommended. Interviews will be held on Friday, 2 October.

Please apply directly from our website.

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Westway Trust View profile

Registered Charity

101 - 500

We exist to work together with the local community to enable North Kensington to thrive.

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Refreshed on: 11 September 2026

Closing date: 20 September 2026 at 23:30

Tags: Communications, Social Media

The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.

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Digital and Social Media Officer

Church Mission Society

Oxford, Oxfordshire (Hybrid)

£31,700 per year

Full-time

Permanent

Faith-based

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Do you understand digital marketing and enjoy creating compelling social media content? Can you make a video that stops the scroll? Would you like to put these skills to use to help others play their part in God’s mission?

• Permanent, full-time 35 hours per week (We would consider reduced hours)

• Hybrid working available with 60 per cent home working.

• Starting salary: £31,700 per annum (depending on experience) with a generous pension contribution: up to 10 per cent employer contribution on annual salary.

• CMS offers 36 days of annual leave pro rata (including bank holidays) as well as enhanced paid sickness, maternity, paternity and adoption leave.

• CMS supports the mental wellbeing of its employees and offers a generous rewards and wellbeing package, including:

access to 24/7 employee assistance programme with qualified counsellors

up to three volunteer days a year

up to three family emergency leave days a year

retreats and resources for prayer life

We welcome applications from everyone. We particularly welcome applications from individuals from minority groups as they are currently underrepresented within our organisation. All appointments are made on merit of skill, experience and potential as set out in the job description and person specification.

The organisation you’ll be joining

Church Mission Society is comprised of people who are passionate about mission and fired up about helping people follow Jesus. For over 200 years CMS has been at the forefront of global mission, living out the gospel of Jesus, seeing lives changed and communities transformed. If you join CMS, you will find an organisation that has been reinvigorated with a fresh vision to make disciples of Jesus among people at the edges, both in the UK and around the world.

Your role

The fundraising and communications group at CMS has ambitious goals and targets and you’ll play a key role in helping successfully deliver on these. You’ll harness the huge potential of social media and other digital platforms to help CMS get the attention of our target audiences, build brand awareness, raise money and recruit people to our mission programmes. As well as having a strong working knowledge of social media platforms, you will need to be able to create and edit video as well as other forms of compelling content.

What you’ll need to succeed

It is essential that the post holder has proven social media, organic and paid content production experience, including video creation, and knowledge of social media posting and interaction via Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn in an organisational context.

In addition, we are looking for proven website editing experience using a content management system such as WordPress and email marketing via a client such as DotDigital.

It is also a requirement that this post holder is committed to the aims and values of CMS.

Further details can be found in the job description and person specification available to download on the CMS website.

Our commitment to you

Our core values of being pioneering, relational, faithful and evangelistic are integral to everything we do, and we work hard to ensure that every member of staff is valued, supported and encouraged to continually learn and develop their skills.

We are committed to the safeguarding and protection of the people we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff. We believe that every child or adult we come into contact with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm and abuse. Our recruitment and selection processes are in line with our Safeguarding Policy and the SCHR Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, which CMS is a member of as part of our commitment to safeguarding.

Closing date

We must get your application by midnight on Sunday 20 September 2026

Interviews are planned to be held on Wednesday 29 September 2026 in CMS House, Oxford.

To apply

Please send your application form, CV and evidence of your digital and social media work, including video content that you have edited (for example, links to online work or a portfolio of work) via our website or by post to HR Team, Church Mission Society, Watlington Road, Oxford OX4 6BZ. CVs will only be considered when sent with a completed Application Form, which is available to download from our website.

Candidates for all UK roles must already be eligible to work in the UK, with a valid visa and work permit if required.

As a member of the Inter-agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, CMS has committed to systematically check with previous employers from the last five years for any ‘SEAH’ (Sexual Exploitation, Abuse or Harassment) issues relating to all potential new hires.

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