Job description

Are you excited about creating rich content that tells engaging stories?

Informative, inspiring content and engaging social interactions are an essential part of how we inspire our visitors to visit, join and connect with us. We have a vacancy in our social media team for a Social Media Assistant to help bring history to life for our visitors and members on channels including Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, and Twitter.

You will play a key role in our team, assisting with the creation of content, responding to our audiences and reporting on performance. This is a highly collaborative role and you'll be working closely with social media executives and developing strong working relationships with experts and stakeholders throughout the business. You'll need to have a curious mind to search for the best content, be a creative communicator (with good grammar), and have strong attention to detail.

Everyone is welcome at English Heritage and we are always looking for people who reflect the diversity of the country today, to help us make it more relevant to the diversity of the people, communities and places we serve. From remote sites to inner city monuments, from regional teams to our Head Office, the diversity of our teams is critical to making sure our heritage is inclusive, exciting and accessible.

We continually look for new ways to promote the past in a way that is inclusive to all and that celebrates the cultural diversity of England's heritage. By joining English Heritage, you will be part of a charity that is already on an exciting journey to tell everyone's story.

You can find out more about us and what we do here, https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/ here. Meet some of our People and hear about why they enjoy working with us here https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/jobs/working-at-historic-places/.

This is a full time role with the flexibility to be based largely at home or as hybrid from our offices in London, Bristol or Swindon. There will also be some travel to sites required each month.

You'll find it's a workplace like no other - taking you behind the scenes of these extraordinary sites and supporting you to share your ideas, inspire others and make a difference.

By joining us, you'll enjoy the rewards of a great team environment in inspiring locations, helping to make our sites a wonderful place to visit. You'll also be joining our charity, which through our 400+ historic monuments, buildings and sites, brings the story of England to life for over 10 million visitors each year.

Benefits include:

• The opportunity to progress your career within the heritage sector;
• Apprenticeship opportunities
• Subscriptions to professional bodies
• Free access to all English Heritage sites for you another adult and up to 6 children (under 18 in the family group)
• 25% discount in our shops and cafes;
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Shared Parental leave
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays pro rata rising to 28 days after 3 years, with the option to buy additional leave
• Matched pension contributions up to a maximum of 10% which can be paid via salary exchange or salary deduction
• Flexible hours