Senior social media executive

About Us - The Social Shepherd 🐑


We're a Social-first agency helping global brands, household names, and high-growth scale-ups accelerate their business growth.


Having recently won Best Large Social Agency in the UK and seen continued growth, we're now looking to take on our next team member to enhance our Social team!


Our service offering includes Organic Social, Paid, Creative & Influencer


We’re a team of 70+ across Bath, London, New York and Miami, with ambitions to continue growing and expanding our talented team.


First of all, here are some important things…


🏠 Work From Home: we operate a hybrid model where team members come to the office 3 days a week, one of which is Wednesday, as our all-agency anchor day, and 2 days from home.


🏋️ Benefits Package: Our collaboration with Bupa & Perkbox grants you access to a spectrum of health services, discounts, benefits, and perks. And that's not all – enjoy your birthday off and kickstart a healthier commute with our cycle-to-work scheme, all yours upon successfully completing your probationary period.


🕐 Flexible hours: some people are early birds, and others like to start later. We allow people to set their own times, with some people starting at 8am and getting to finish up earlier! We trust our team to get their work done on their schedule.


❤️ We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability status. We want to support diverse and inclusive work environments and are actively looking for people who share our values.


Roles & Responsibilities


As a Senior Social Media Executive, you’ll work alongside a Social Media Manager on all organic social media content & strategy, planning monthly content calendars, creating and scheduling content, as well as writing copy.


You'll understand and monitor trends, ensuring you keep your clients relevant in today's fast-moving social-first world.


* Work on social media content plans and strategy whilst constantly optimising content to achieve the absolute best results for clients, taking into account performance across different channels.
* Applying original thought to create beautiful content for our clients using tools such as Canva, Photoshop & Adobe Suite, etc.
* Write witty and humorous copy on our brand's channels, as well as your time in community management.
* Work on social media content plans and constantly optimise content to achieve the absolute best results for clients, taking into account performance across different channels.
* You’ll help manage the client's social media communities by replying to comments & messages they receive.
* You’ll build client-facing relationships alongside our Social Media Manager and Social Media Director
* Build reports for clients, so we can show them the results they’ve achieved from working with us.
* Monitor and understand all social media algorithms to inform how our content strategy should be shifting.


Requirements


* 1+ years of social media management is required. Brand or Agency.
* You want to build a career in Social Media Marketing and see yourself growing within a fast-growth agency.
* Good copywriting capabilities (witty/humorous/trend-led) as well as confident with platforms such as Canva.
* You are an enthusiastic & passionate person who genuinely cares about your work and wants to do your best.
* You enjoy being creative and analytical.
* You'll have strong organisational skills.
* Curious and adaptable: it’s a fast-moving industry, and social advertising is even more so, products change and adapt weekly, and you must be happy with keeping up to date with changes and learning about how they may impact our output.


Salary


£26,000 to £30,000 depending on experience.


Interested?


Apply through this job listing.


Questions?


Message hello@thesocialshepherd.com with any questions and we'll be happy to help!