Social Media Manager

Maidenhead, Berkshire
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

Location: May be office based in Maidenhead or can adopt a flexible hybrid option of part home/part office working

Contract Type: Fixed Term – 2 years

Salary: From £37,280 per annum, pro rata, depending upon experience

Hours: Full Time, 37 hours per week

About the CWGC

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission honours and cares for the men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars, ensuring they will never be forgotten. Funded by six Member Governments, our work began with building, and now maintaining, cemeteries at 23,000 locations all over the world.

Today, over a century after we first began, our work continues through our staff, supporters and volunteers who preserve our unique cultural, horticultural, and architectural heritage and ensure that the stories of those who died are told.

About this Role and You

Our Social Media team are at the heart of our Organisation’s digital content across our various social media platforms. They are passionate about tailoring content to reach our current audiences and committed to diversifying and developing multichannel paid and organic activity to widen our social engagement across the globe.

This is a terrific opportunity for a versatile and innovative social media expert to lead the development and delivery of a cross-platform strategy. Creating content in a range of digital formats for paid and organic methods on social media you will help shape our approach to community management and proactively grow our online presence.

Working in collaboration with our MarComs team you will develop creative content to ensure social media campaigns are successfully aligned to increase brand awareness and engage diverse audiences. You will be innovative, have a great commercial sense and be a trend spotter with a keen eye for emerging platforms in the social media landscape. Using your experience of day-to-day management of social media platforms, you will use your research and analytical abilities to provide strategic advice on issues, reputation and brand management. You will be relied upon to raise our profile, acquire new and far-reaching audiences and enhance our global reputation.

To be successful within this position you will have strong community management experience, with a strong grasp of paid and organic social best practice, together with a clear understanding of data compliance and legislation for social media and the implications for marketing in this space.

You will be able to demonstrate:

• Education to degree level or equivalent professional qualification
• Proven experience in a social media environment, with a track record of managing social media and content creation
• In-depth knowledge of the current social media landscape
• Team management experience
• Experience including but not limited to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram
• Knowledge of analytics software as well as paid advertising campaigns
• Strong ability for copywriting and social content creation
• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships utilising exceptional communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to understand and manage sensitive and delicate matters within campaign activity
• Excellent writing skills, with a good eye for design and layout
• Strong project management skills

In addition, we are looking for applicants who share our Values of Respect, Excellence, Teamwork, Communication, Professionalism and Commitment.

What We Offer:

– A generous holiday allocation, with 25 days annual leave, rising by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30

– Paid public holidays

– Paid office closure between Christmas and New Year

– Flexible working arrangements

– Generous Pension Scheme, with CWGC contributing up to 15%

– Up to six times salary Life Assurance cover

– Employee Assistance Programme

– We offer piece of mind for our employees travelling on business via International SOS

How to Apply

Please visit our Careers webpage for further details about the role and how to apply.

We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings and are committed to creating a respectful work environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect and where any unlawful and/or unfair discrimination is eliminated. We will not unlawfully discriminate directly or indirectly in recruitment or employment on grounds of sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation or marital status, religion or belief.