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Your Role: Broadcast Journalist
LBC’s Social Media Manager will report to LBC’s Head of Social Media and will play a meaningful role in creating compelling content that sets the news agenda and brings LBC’s award-winning on-air content to the online environment.
As a Social Media Manager at Global, you will:
Key Responsibilities
- Photo/video editing (30%): Taking LBC’s on-air content and reporter-made off-air content and creating compelling social media videos for our various platforms. You’ll also make thumb-stopping images that make our clips stand out from the crowd.
- Copywriting (30%): Crafting attention-grabbing sells and engaging headlines.
- Management (20%): Deputising for the Head of Social Media and running the team in their absence.
- Strategy (20%): Recognising patterns and trends to determine what sort of content to create to best serve our audience.
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think Big: You have the potential to reach billions of people in this role. Create amazing content that will be seen all over the world.
Own It: Be part of a talented and hard-working team with a growing online following.
Keep it Simple: Build our subscribers with high-quality content.
Better Together: Collaborate with a team of journalists and social media experts to make our content as good as it can be.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
- Learnt the ins and outs of what makes LBC’s audience tick.
- Continued the positive trajectory of follower-growth.
- Built good working relationships within the social media team and with LBC presenters
- and producers.
What You’ll Need
- Adobe Suite proficiency: Premiere Pro and Photoshop skills are required.
- Attention to detail: Our content is regularly watched millions of times. We don’t want millions of people to see a mistake next to the LBC name! Disciplined proof-checking is required.
- Creativity: Finding fun and inventive ways to sell our content to as many viewers as possible.
- Pride in your work: Numbers aren’t everything. We want to create a good product that our audience can enjoy and appreciate. Let’s make beautiful content.
- Coaching and Development: Nurturing talent by empowering and guiding individuals to unlock their potential
- Building Trust: Creating and maintaining an inclusive environment where diverse views and experiences are welcomed and celebrated in your team
- Creativity: Finding fun and inventive ways to sell our content to as many viewers as possible.
Global London, England Office
30 Leicester Square, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 7LA
