Senior Social Media Officer

Turning Passion into Purpose.

London South Bank University is excited to be recruiting for the post of Senior Social Media Officer working as part of the Content and Creative team.

Working alongside a friendly team of creatives, this position will provide the successful candidate with the opportunity to lead and strengthen the organic social media function for the university. Bringing your creativity and drive to help build and shape a new strategy, be responsible for its execution and adding innovation and ideas every step of the way. As Senior Officer you will play an important role ensuring platforms are optimised, planned, and reflect brand values, support current students, and showcase the university to applicants helping to bring campaigns to life.

About You:

We are looking to hear from candidates who have the following skills/experience:

• Extensive experience of delivering high-impact social media campaigns.
• Excellent written communications skills, with excellent attention to detail.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of social media.
• Strong planning skills, being able to identify priorities, work to clear goals and manage deliverables.

The ideal candidate will bring a creative mind and be degree educated, highly motivated and able to work as part of an established team. Experience with social media monitoring tools and project planning software is also highly desirable.

A full list of key responsibilities and the required skills and experience for this role, alongside guidance on what to submit within your application can be found in the candidate pack. The candidate pack is attached to the full advert for this position on our careers site, which you can access via the "Apply" button.

Benefits of Working With Us:
As a leading Higher Education Institution LSBU offers staff a highly competitive benefits package including holiday entitlement starting at 26.5 days per annum, professional development opportunities and flexible working. Full details on the range of benefits we offer can be found here.

Key Dates:

• The closing date for applications is 23:59 Tuesday 8^th April 2025
• Interview/assessment – Thursday 17^th April 2025

We are happy to talk flexible working and reasonable adjustments and aim to make our recruitment and selection process accessible to all, please contact us to discuss any support you need. The diversity of LSBU’s staff and students is a source of our strength and the richness of ideas and perspectives that this diversity brings makes LSBU a unique place to work.

Depending on the individual circumstances of the candidate this role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UKVI Skilled Worker route. More details on this can be found within the candidate pack.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early, should we receive sufficient applications.

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