Social Media Executive

City, Edinburgh
Energy Saving Trust

Closing Date: 03/12/2021

Issue Date: 22/11/2021

Position Ref: LT 791

Location: Edinburgh

Salary: Between £26k – £28.5k (depending on experience)

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

The role

Want to use your outstanding social media skills to help people in Scotland create warmer homes, reduce their energy bills, and lower their carbon footprint? Then join us as our new social media executive for Home Energy Scotland. Funded by the Scottish Government and managed by Energy Saving Trust, Home Energy Scotland works with people and organisations to help address fuel poverty and the climate emergency. As part of Energy Saving Trust’s wider marketing and communications team, you’ll work with a range of marking professionals and energy experts to deliver your role.

What you’ll do

In this role:

• You’ll be responsible for planning and managing social media for Home Energy Scotland and several other Scottish programmes.
• You’ll report on your social media activity and turn data into insight to improve engagement.
• You’ll manage in-house and external paid digital campaigns for a wide range of our programmes delivered in Scotland.

What you’ll bring

As well as bags of enthusiasm for all things social, you will have:

• Demonstrable experience of managing organic social media channels.
• Demonstrable writing and editing experience for social media, with the ability to turn complex issues into succinct, compelling content.
• Strong knowledge and experience of managing and building paid digital marketing adverts and campaigns (both in-house and with agency).

Energy Saving Trust offers a range of benefits to all employees such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, company pension and a wellbeing allowance.

This is a permanent position. We are open to flexible working patterns and blended (home and office-based) working is possible for this role.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

Applications close 5pm, Friday 3 December. Interviews are intended to be held w/c 13 December 2021.

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Only people living in the UK with the right to work in the UK may apply for this position.