Social Media Coordinator - C&E

Package Description

Job Reference: (13698)
Band: B
Contract type: Fixed Term contract to 27th December 2024
Location: Salford
Salary: Up to £31,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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Job Introduction

We’re looking for a Social Media Coordinator to join our social media team, within the BBC's Children’s and Education department. The ideal candidate will have a wealth of social media knowledge and know to engage a tween audience on vertical platforms such as TikTok and Instagram.

This role will be primarily promoting CBeebies brands, Bitesize for Parents and BBC Teach to an audience on social media, using bespoke and commissioned social content to bring our programming and wider campaigns to new, underserved audiences and existing fans. This could also extend to working across our Newsround social accounts.

Main Responsibilities

• Producing innovative, engaging content across our social media channels, ensuring all posts are aligned with our brand tone of voice and values as well as being high impact social content.
• Keeping abreast and sharing insight of the latest social media trends, platforms and influencers. Sharing this insight with the team and through ideas.
• Editing video and image content for social media platforms, mainly Instagram and TikTok
• Collaborating with other teams to produce content and support TV shows and campaigns

Are you the right candidate?

• We’re looking for someone who lives and breathes social media, particularly Instagram and TikTok, keeping abreast of the latest trends, sounds and influencers
• A content creator who can generate stand-out, social-first ideas that make our audience take action and engage
• A self-starter who can come up with unique ideas, shoot content and produce first class assets using software such as Adobe Premiere and PhotoShop, along with in-app editing skills
• A team player who wants to get stuck in, share knowledge and ideas and take on a wealth of exciting projects and campaigns

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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