Social Media Manager

Overview

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Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is seeking a Social Media Manager to lead the delivery of our social media strategy, ensuring our message reaches and resonates with the right audiences in support of our life-changing mission.

This is a rewarding opportunity for a strategic, creative social media professional to shape high-impact storytelling, build meaningful engagement, and help connect more people to the work we do in some of the world’s most remote communities.

Location
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Folkestone, Kent or Cranfield, Oxford (with hybrid working)

Rewards
:
Salary of £41,000, plus a generous pension scheme, annual leave entitlement, and other great benefits and professional growth opportunities

Contract
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Permanent, full-time

As our Social Media Manager
, you will shape our social media strategy to engage the right audiences, amplify our message and support our mission through exceptional campaigns. You’ll work across organic and paid channels, translating organisational priorities into platform-specific plans, campaigns, and editorial calendars, whilst working collaboratively with other departments to support their content-creation requirements. You’ll oversee our ambassador and influencer approach, shaping programmes that connect with audiences in authentic, credible ways.

You’ll co-ordinate inclusive, impact-led storytelling with trusted partners and put clear briefs and frameworks in place to ensure collaborations are ethical, effective, and support engagement and donor income, across one-off, regular, and monthly giving.

Additionally, you will:

• Champion a video-first, mobile-led approach across social channels
• Manage agencies, creators, and freelancers against agreed KPIs and budgets
• Lead performance tracking, insight and reporting across social campaigns
• Drive testing, learning, and optimisation to improve reach and engagement
• Monitor trends and social listening to identify relevant opportunities

To be considered as our Social Media Manager, you will need:

• At least three years’ experience in a similar social media management role
• Demonstrable experience in designing and delivering social media strategies that achieve cost returns in line with industry standards
• Proven experience leading both organic and paid social media activity within a mission-driven or charity context
• Experience working within an agile environment, with a good understanding of Scrum and sprint methodologies
• A track record of building and delivering successful ambassador or influencer programmes, including contracting, briefing, and performance measurement
• Evidence of translating insight and performance data into channel growth, supporter acquisition and measurable Donor Income, including one-off, regular and monthly giving
• Strong copywriting, storytelling and editing skills, with the ability to adapt tone across platforms
• A degree or equivalent

Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is a Christian organisation that uses light aircraft to deliver practical help, physical healing and spiritual hope to some of the world’s most remote and inaccessible communities.

For 80 years, MAF has been working in partnership with hundreds of other organisations to enable access to medical care, education, livelihood training and long-term support in over 24 low-income countries.

We believe that every community, however remote, should have access to the essentials of life – that’s why MAF’s flights are a lifeline, not a luxury.

• Salary of £41,000 per annum
• Annual leave entitlement of 22 days per year plus 8 paid public holidays per year
• Non-contributory pension scheme (10% of salary); employees may make voluntary additional contributions
• Death in service payment
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme

This is a fantastic opportunity for a proven social media strategist to join our mission-led organisation. You will have the chance to sharpen your expertise across exciting, high-profile projects with real, genuine purpose, allowing you to develop your craft, whilst knowing your work is part of something truly meaningful.…