Social and Content Lead

Job Opportunity
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Social and Content Lead

To lead on creating and delivering content on SE’s social media channels, helping to grow our audience, engagement and conversions to memberships. You will have a key role in telling the story of surfing in England, from our grassroots programmes to Team England, whilst delivering value for our partners and sponsors. It’s an exciting opportunity for a creative and motivated person with a passion for surfing to gain allot of experience across all aspects of a dynamic and fast paced national governing body.

Please note: due to the seasonal nature of Surfing England’s calendar, this role requires regular weekend working. From April to October, we run events on the majority of weekends, many of which require social media presence and are opportunities to capture great content. Flexibility and enthusiasm for event-based work (which are often early starts and late finishes) is essential for this role.

• To take the lead on creating a strategy for Surfing England’s social media channels, creating a plan for growth and increased engagement
• Management of our social media platforms, working across the team to generate content and stories, backed up with analytics and performance data
• Creating content that tells the story of our surfers and community, delivering an engaging feed that draws in a diverse audience
• During events, work as part of the events team, taking responsibility for social media and content creation, including creating media briefs, managing our freelance photographers and videographers and post event writing press releases, finalising edits and sharing across our platforms and press partners
• Being creative and innovative in your approach to developing our social media, bringing forward ideas to help deliver partner outputs, create new revenue streams, grow our membership and reach new audiences
• Ensuring the appropriate nature of all content, and refining content from other team members, freelancers, coaches, etc

We’re a small, passionate team and alongside technical competence we need people who bring positive energy and a great attitude to the team.

You’ll be proactive and adaptable and a natural do-er, taking initiative to see what needs doing and make it happen, whether that’s capturing content, problem solving with corporate partners or helping put up event gazebos. You’ll take pride in your work, and bring a positive, optimistic energy to everything you do.

• Knowledge of and passion for surfing and the surf community in England
• Preferred 2 years’ experience managing social media platforms for a brand, company or person(s) (or an equivalent level of demonstrable experience)
• Recent experience of filming high quality surf content, with a strong understanding of how to capture both action content and personal story telling
• Strong editing skills, with a quick turnaround. Sound knowledge of editing software (desktop and mobile)
• Experience in creative writing
• Excellent organisation skills. You’ll be juggling lots of work streams, with high demands from the team for content
• Be a genuine team player, and be prepared to assist with ad-hoc tasks such as event site build, break, trailer loading, driving vans with kit, etc
• Bags of enthusiasm for surfing and for using surfing as a tool for positive change

This job description identifies the main purpose of the role and its responsibilities. Due to being a small organisation, there may be requirements outside of this.

If you believe you could take on this role and fulfil its tasks and wish to join Surfing England at a pivotal time with a vision for growth and positive impact – then we want to hear from you!

Location
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Office based – Braunton, North Devon. With lots of travel for events, etc.

Hours
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Preferable full time, a minimum of 4 days a week considered

Employment type
:12 months initial contract, view to permanent

Requirements: Full clean UK driving license and own vehicle (mileage for work purposes will be paid)

This role reports to the Operations Manager.

Please submit:

• A video introducing yourself, talking us through your ideas to grow…