We’re VIVID! –We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people!

We’re hiring a Digital Content and Social Media Officer to join our team, contractually based in our Portsmouth office. This is a full time, permanent position working 37 hours per week. We offer a flexible approach to working between home and the office, with a minimum of 20% of this to be office based to promote collaboration and team working.

Want to know what we can offer you?

26 days holiday (plus bank holidays), with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
A productivity-related bonus scheme to enhance your take-home
A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
Private medical insurance
Health care cash plan called Medicash
Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
Access to counselling, legal and financial information
Electric car scheme
Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes

Here’s the facts about the role:

As Digital Content and Social Media Officer you’ll be responsible for forward-planning and implementing social media activities across all our social media sites, that will include reactive and proactive social media content working closely with customer facing teams to help manage our online reputation.

You’ll keep all online content across our corporate communications channels, including our website, up to date, accessible and customer focused. Using your skills and experience, you’ll maximise online reach and engagement amongst target audiences on our key messages to elevate the positive profile of the VIVID brand. Working closely with the Digital Communications Specialist, you’ll plan and implement all digital comms activity and devise online engagement tactics to support the communications strategy.

You’ll champion collaboration and have a high level of energy, drive and standard of work to deliver successful reputational outcomes. You’ll have excellent attention to detail and an active and in-depth knowledge and use of social and digital media in a corporate communications environment.

Ideally you’ll hold a degree level or relevant communications or marketing qualification. You’ll have previous experience working in a similar role, with particular experience managing an organisation’s social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. You’ll be up to date on social media developments and trends as well as search engine optimisation. You’ll be proactive in forward-planning and coming up with new creative ideas and content to maximise reach and engagement.

We're a leading provider of affordable homes and extensive support services in the south of England. We believe that everyone has the right to a safe and secure place to call home, and from the moment customers move into their VIVID home we’re here to help with that and more.

Our customers have access to a wide range of tailored advice to sustain their tenancies and look after their wellbeing. We invest in our homes and communities for the long-term, and this means in the quality, safety and energy efficiency of existing homes and neighbourhoods, with a firm focus on improving services so they’re easy to use and access by our customers.

We’re addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the south, building the right type of homes to meet the needs of our local communities. We’re the fifth largest developer of new homes amongst housing associations in England, having built over 1,500 last year.

This is summed up in our vision “More homes, bright futures”.

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