Social Media Manager
Salary: Up to £40,500 (depending on experience)
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours a week)
Fixed term, 12-month maternity cover, with an expected start date of 18 November 2024 and end date of 14 November 2025
Location: Flexible within the UK (blended from our offices in Cardiff, Edinburgh or London)
Closing Date: 21/07/2024
Ref: LT 1262
Working closely with the head of content and the wider content team, this Social Media Manager role delivers our organic social media strategy. The Social Media Manager leads on increasing cross-channel awareness and engagement to meet our KPIs with support from our social media executive.
Our current social media manager says:
“This is an exciting and varied role which brings together strategy and creativity. Every day I get to engage with our consumer and business communities, develop creative content, and drive real impact for our brand through meaningful social media engagement and growth.”
Who we are
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.
At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.
Here are some of the benefits we offer:
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We offer an outstanding pension scheme including employer contributions of up to 9%, 11% or 13% (age-linked).
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Enhanced parental leave.
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Private BUPA insurance.
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25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with service-linked increases as well as three goodwill days over the Christmas period.
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Staff wellbeing allowance of up to £25 per month / £300 per year.
Please see our careers page for the full list of benefits we have to offer and why Energy Saving Trust is a great place to work.
The team
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The marketing communications team successfully delivers an increasing number of programmes and campaigns for funders, clients and businesses.
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Our aim is to deliver highly effective campaigns and return on investment with an increasingly agile and flexible approach.
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As a team, we want to identify and embrace new ideas, develop processes and ways of working that support the team, incorporate greater evaluation of our work, and share our insight.
What you’ll do
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Use attention grabbing, creative storytelling to get consumers and businesses to save energy and lower their carbon emissions to help the UK reach net zero.
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Work with multiple internal stakeholders to manage the social media forward planner and ensure all content is appropriately optimised for our Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube accounts.
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Work reactively with our press and policy teams to communicate via social our expert position on breaking news and government announcements.
What you’ll bring
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Demonstrable strong experience of delivering a social media strategy and improving awareness and engagement.
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Previous line management experience and delegation in a social media role.
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Superb organisational skills with demonstrable experience of working with multiple internal stakeholders to juggle a busy multi-channel social media request process and calendar.
This is a fixed term, 12-month maternity cover, with an expected start date of 18 November 2024 and end date of 14 November 2025. Our standard weekly hours are 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday. As standard we offer all contracts as blended (home and office-based) working.
To apply click the apply button.
Applications close at midnight on 21 July Interviews are intended to be held w/c 5 August.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Reasonable adjustments: We are a Disability Confident Committed employer. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for, everyone.
If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch.
Flexible working: We offer a range of flexible working arrangements, including working from home, compressed or part-time hours, job shares and other arrangements. There is no need to justify your preferred working pattern and we encourage our people to work in whichever way helps them to perform at their best.
We will be happy to discuss this and our blended working model at the interview stage with you.
Please note, that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.
Diversity and inclusion
Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best.
We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.
We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the minimum criteria for a role