Social Media Assistant, talkSPORT.com (casual role)
Your Team: talkSPORT is the world’s biggest sports radio station and a globally-renowned digital publisher, with a social footprint of almost 10M followers.
The talkSPORT.com team spans across several departments – including editorial, social, audience and tech – and we are looking to expand with an additional Social Media Assistant, helping with the scheduling and delivery of website articles across our social channels.
Your Role:We are seeking a bright, innovative and passionate Social Media Assistant who is keen to grow their career within the sports media industry.
Reporting into our Social Media Editor, the successful candidate will be responsible for helping to manage our website’s output across Facebook, Twitter/X, and YouTube. This will involve liaising with the editorial team on story selection and publishing, identifying hooks within content that appeals to our social audience, and analysing real-time data to inform what to post and when.
Day to day you will:
Posting and scheduling a variety of talkSPORT.com articles across multiple social platforms
Creating visually appealing imagery from templates that complement website stories
Working collaboratively and at speed to post breaking news and jump on trending topics
Helping contribute to daily article ideation based on what’s trending across social media
Communicating with our video team on scheduling times to ensure there are no clashes
Monitoring traffic trends in real-time and feeding back any key insight or learnings
What we’re looking for from you:
A knowledge of and passion for a wide range of sports and social media platforms
Able to work at pace in a fast-moving environment
Comfortable communicating into our London Bridge offices at least twice a week
Strong communication skills and a real team player with good work ethic
Flexibility to work across evenings and weekends on a five-of-seven days rota
Experience overseeing social media accounts, preferably within the sports media industry
Experience using social media management tools and/or data analytics platforms
An understanding of how to optimise posts for different social media platforms
An ability to pick out bits of information within articles that appeal to social audiences
Basic knowledge of Photoshop and/or graphic design skills
We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio - home to Chris Evans at Breakfast. talkSPORT, the world’s biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans. Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar, Aasmah Mir. Talk is redefining speech broadcasting on digital audio platforms. We also have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
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