Our Media : Digital and Social Content Manager - 6m FTC

Social Media Manager is needed in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Client: Our Media

Location: Bristol, UK

Contract: Full Time

About Our Media

Our Media is a leading special-interest content business, based in the buzzing, creative city of Bristol. We’re home to market-leading brands in craft, cycling, science and nature, homes and music. We help our audiences pursue their passions through highly trusted, original content – in print, video and online. Our much-loved brands include BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Your Home, Gathered.how, BikeRadar and Cycling Plus.

Position

The Digital and Social Content Manager is a specialised member of the editorial team, reporting into the Senior Digital Editor for multi-craft site Gathered. The role involves line management duties, mentoring and developing more junior members of staff through managerial support and providing top quality editorial feedback to direct reports and fellow members of staff.

Role and Responsibilities

In addition to producing top quality, SEO-friendly editorial craft content, the Digital and Social Content Manager is responsible for maintaining and growing the Gathered brand across our top social media channels, with an especial focus on Pinterest. They are responsible for maintaining our relationship with Pinterest, as part of our regular Partnership Programmes, and ensuring that content is consistently posted to our channels to increase inbound traffic to the Gathered website.

Requirements

Essential:

• Writing digital, SEO friendly articles across a wide range of topics
• Write advertorials for paid clients and work with ad sales team
• Organisation of commerce-led affiliate articles for the team
• Mentor print teams to help them create content every month for Gathered
• Monitoring the ‘Sewing and quilting’ section of the website and deploying content updates to ensure it continues to grow YoY, in line with monthly page view targets
• Working with Head of Social Media in the planning and execution of comprehensive, forward-looking content strategy across platforms
• Building engagement and a sense of community across social media and newsletter audiences
• Reporting to the team and management on social media growth and trends on a monthly basis
• Line management of one individual (support planning schedules and workloads)
• Good knowledge of social media platforms including Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok essential
• Write weekly newsletters for Gathered’s Sewing vertical (with the option to write another newsletter on a freelance basis)

Useful, but not essential:

• Review social media ad copy
• Scheduling daily social media posts for release across all channels
• Monitoring the Gathered inbox for requests and queries
• Basic knowledge of Photoshop and Canva

Other Information

We respect and value differences. We believe that when people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives work together, we can create the most value for our people, readers, customers, and society. If you are excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with everything listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, as you may still be a good fit for this or other roles.

We’re striving to create a more diverse and inclusive environment and to ensure our content is representative of all our audiences. We have established five internal D&I network groups to help our people feel supported and included, and to provide an open environment for people to network, mentor and exchange ideas, solutions, and experiences. If there is anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible for you, please do let us know at recruitment@ourmedia.co.uk.

Flexible and Hybrid Working

We know we create great things and have fun when we come together in person and collaborate. We also know that working from home brings great benefits in terms of being able to focus on our work, and manage our personal lives around our roles. With this in mind, we have established a hybrid working pattern, with 60% of the working week spent in the office.

Our people also benefit from a flexi time policy, and a flexi location policy which gives everyone the opportunity to work from another location for two weeks during the year.

We are open to discussion about flexible working requests for any flexibility needs not covered by these policies.

Company Benefits Include

• Pension contribution matched to 5%
• Season ticket loan
• Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
• Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
• Social committee, regular in-house learning events
• 4x life assurance

Our Values

We strongly believe that work is not just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it. We want our people to thrive and develop, and we want to effect positive change in the world.

We have an ambitious and robust sustainability strategy, which includes a zero-to-waste, renewable-energy-fuelled office at Eagle House, the complete removal of single-use plastics from our supply chain, and a roadmap to be fully carbon neutral by 2030.

To put that spirit at the heart of our business, we recently co-created a set of values with input from everyone here. Our values are:

• Be kind
• Always curious
• Be the best we can be

Apply today to take the next step in your career with Our Media. Please note, we review CVs on an ongoing basis and may close the role early due to high interest. If you’re interested in joining us, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.