Senior Social Media Executive

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We are looking for a Senior Social Executive to join our Community team in London on a 3-month fixed-term contract.

The 1000heads Community team is a proud, powerful collective of Social Media obsessives, driven by the desire to deliver kick-ass editorial + social conversation to some of the world's most impressive brands. You will work closely with a whole host of departmental specialists, from Insights, to Design, to Strategy to deliver transformational social-first work for our clients. From cultivating online conversation through quality-led moderation to crafting and activating the editorial vision for our clients - everything we do is delivered with a belief that fans of a brand brought together, as a community, can become an unstoppable force.

To be part of the community team, you must be a social platform obsessive, a curious copywriter and a publishing platform junkie. If TikTok gives you thrills and carefully curated Instagram feeds leave you visibly electric, this is the team for you.

Responsibilities

• Creative copywriting, which flexes for all things social and then seeing that content through to its live home through publishing across social channels.
• Stimulating and sustaining conversations and relationships with a brand's audience through on-the-pulse community management.
• Supporting in the delivery of the day-to-day delivery of editorial calendars and creative campaigns.
• Working directly with our creative studio to ideate and brief on engaging content to charge our organic social-first activations.
• Building solid relationships with our clients and using your entrepreneurial skills to identify business development opportunities
• Offering strategic thinking, creative spark, and commercial understanding to elevate existing plans.
• Researching the latest social tools, platforms and trends - and working to ensure that we are the first to innovate and experiment.
• Supporting our insight team in delivering reports, performance tracking & trend analysis to clients.
• Remaining culturally attuned and constantly challenging the team and our clients with new opportunities for innovation across the industry.

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; you should speak the language of the internet.
• A strong appreciation (and minor obsession) with formats, trends and memes that makes people stop and pay attention.
• An expansive understanding of social media and the value it can offer to brands of all industries.
• An eye for creative content, both written and visual, and knowledge of the nuances of social media formats - if you know your Reels from your TikTok, this job is for you.
• Excellent organisational, time management & collaboration skills
• The ability to work under pressure when it's called for whilst always keeping an eye on the finer details.
• Proficiency in using a wide variety of social platforms and tools that are used to drive efficiency within the accounts we work.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite & similar (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) to a good standard.

Plus the ability to think:

• Creatively (capable of thinking differently and disruptively)
• Strategically (able to analyse situations and see the big picture)
• Intelligently (critical think that identifies gaps and fills them)

Benefits

• Additional holiday day for each year of service, up to 25 days
• Additional festive shutdown period between Christmas and New Years period
• Subsidised gym membership
• Private Medical Cover
• Company Pension Scheme
• Personal development fund
• Cycle to work scheme
• Regular company socials/away days,
• Free breakfasts and weekly drinks
• Flexible working, hybrid 1-2 days per week
• Plus other cool perks