Social Media Officer – Health Equals

Our Foundation: 

We are an independent charitable organisation working to build a healthier UK. We aim for excellence across our work and will achieve this by producing research and analysis, shaping policy and practice, building skills, knowledge, and capacity, and acting as a catalyst for change. Everyone has a stake and a part to play in improving our health. By working together, we can build a healthier UK.

About Health Equals: 

Falling under the Health Foundation’s work to improve people’s health and reduce inequalities, Health Equals is the UK’s campaign for improving health opportunities. Made possible as a strategic initiative of the Health Foundation, we’re a group of people and organisations campaigning to make sure the things we know shape health and wellbeing are at the heart of policymaking and practice, so everyone can experience a healthy life and the opportunities that brings.

About the role: 

We are looking for a Social Media Officer to work as part of a small, start-up style team on our public campaigning initiative. This role provides an exciting opportunity to lead on our social media presence, ensuring that our always-on and time-limited public campaigns catch the attention of the public and policy makers across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and BlueSky.   

In this role, you’ll use your skills to schedule, design, deliver and monitor creative and engaging social media content that helps Health Equals to build its online presence and following, supporting its objective to raise awareness of how our health is shaped by ‘the building blocks of health’. As well as driving engagement with our public campaigns, you will lead on curating compelling evidence-based content from our 28 member organisations and wider supporters.

About you: 

You will be part of developing a clear voice and powerful communications that reach audiences across the public, private and third sector. Ultimately, you’ll contribute to building a new narrative about how health is shaped, as well as building pressure for policies across government that put good health and wellbeing at their heart.

We think this role is for you if you have excellent content creation skills and are adept at finding opportunities to reach broader audiences in innovative ways. You will enjoy keeping your finger on the pulse when it comes to trends and debate online, and know how to work with opinion formers, communities and influencers to produce quality content that resonates with target audiences.

You’ll be a confident communicator with excellent writing and editing skills, experienced in tracking performance and using insights to improve results, and be seasoned at working with colleagues to understand complex subjects and turn them into public friendly, accessible content, have experience using design software and working to brand guidelines is also key to success in this role. We think this role is for you if you have excellent content creation skills and are adept at finding opportunities to reach broader audiences in innovative ways. You will enjoy keeping your finger on the pulse when it comes to trends and debate online, and know how to work with opinion formers, communities and influencers to produce quality content that resonates with target audiences.

How to apply

You can find the job description for this role here. If you would like to apply click on the apply button within this advert.

Interview date: W/C 9th April 2025

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