Social Media Officer (part-time) London, England
Job description
Permanent contract
Part time (21 hours)
Nationwide / split between home and our London Office
National: £29,500 - £33,500 pro rata (fully remote)
London: £33,000 - £37,000 pro rata (split between home and our London office)
Closing date: 23 February 2023
Interviews: 13 - 17 March 2023
About the role
The Social Media Officer will create and curate engaging social media content and coordinate social media activity across social media platforms. You will use your experience and expertise to enable supporters to have the best possible experience from Macmillan Cancer Support on social media.
About you
In this exciting role, you will create content and campaigns for Macmillan’s social media footprint, working with stakeholders from across the organisation.
You’ll be motivated to use your creativity and excellent knowledge of different platforms to come up with collaborative, impactful solutions to briefs, as well as driving innovation in our content approach for each channel. We're looking for someone who prides themselves in keeping up to date with social media trends, who is thorough in their work, with great attention to detail, and is a brilliant communicator. You will have copywriting, photo editing skills and experience of using native and third-party social media tools to optimise and evaluate social media activity.
You will use your experience and credibility to consult on content and moderation best practice to colleagues and inspire stakeholders by sharing the potential of social media to bring value to the lives of people living with cancer.
About us
We help millions of people with cancer across the UK live life as fully as they can through physical, emotional and financial support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to be their best self to work.
Recruitment Process
In order to ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.
The application deadline is 23:59 on 23rd February 2023. Please complete your application at your earliest convenience as we reserve the right to close advertising early due to high volumes of applications.
Virtual interviews will be held between 13th - 17th March 2023.
Location and Travel
This role’s location is flexible with office and home-based options across the UK as well as a dual location – both home and in our London Office.
We encourage flexibility in how you work, whether that’s flexibility over when, where and how you work. We want to help you be at your best every day; and so, we will always strive to be flexible and to promote a positive work life balance, to enable all of us to do whatever it takes for people living with cancer.
What can we offer you?
We commit to actively developing you and offer benefits including private medical insurance, life assurance, pension, generous annual leave, and interest free loans for season ticket, gym membership and a vast range of discounts via our benefit platform which helps make our employees money go further.
We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.
In order to ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.
So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan People Services Team on [email protected] for advice and recruitment adjustments.
If you would like to discuss your application or anything further in regards to a career at Macmillan Cancer Support please email us at [email protected].
