Job Description

Global Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Social Media Manager - Global

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Accepting Applications Until 9 September 2025

Your new role

LBC’s Social Media Manager will report to LBC’s Head of Social Media and will play a meaningful role in creating compelling content that sets the news agenda and brings LBC’s award-winning on-air content to the online environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Photo/video editing (30%): Taking LBC’s on-air content and reporter-made off-air content and creating compelling social media videos for our various platforms. You’ll also make thumb-stopping images that make our clips stand out from the crowd.
• Copywriting (30%): Crafting attention-grabbing sells and engaging headlines.
• Management (20%): Deputising for the Head of Social Media and running the team in their absence.
• Strategy (20%): Recognising patterns and trends to determine what sort of content to create to best serve our audience.

What You’ll Love About This Role

• Think Big: You have the potential to reach billions of people in this role. Create amazing content that will be seen all over the world.
• Own It: Be part of a talented and hard-working team with a growing online following.
• Keep it Simple: Build our subscribers with high-quality content.
• Better Together: Collaborate with a team of journalists and social media experts to make our content as good as it can be.

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• Learned the ins and outs of what makes LBC’s audience tick.
• Continued the positive trajectory of follower-growth.
• Built good working relationships within the social media team and with LBC presenters and producers.

What You’ll Need

• Adobe Suite proficiency: Premiere Pro and Photoshop skills are required.
• Attention to detail: Our content is regularly watched millions of times. We don’t want millions of people to see a mistake next to the LBC name! Disciplined proof-checking is required.
• Creativity: Finding fun and inventive ways to sell our content to as many viewers as possible.
• Pride in your work: Numbers aren’t everything. We want to create a good product that our audience can enjoy and appreciate. Let’s make beautiful content.
• Coaching and Development: Nurturing talent by empowering and guiding individuals to unlock their potential.
• Building Trust: Creating and maintaining an inclusive environment where diverse views and experiences are welcomed and celebrated in your team.

Creating a place we all belong at Global

We are dedicated to creating a place where different voices are represented, amplified and celebrated. We know that we can’t serve our diverse audiences without first celebrating it in our people, which is why we’re passionate about creating an inclusive culture where every Globaller can belong. So, no matter who you are or where you are from, you can find your place at Global.

As a business, we believe in the importance of a healthy work-life balance and the value of a flexible and agile workforce. Therefore, we operate a Smart Working approach. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during your recruitment process, drop us an email at recruitment@global.com, we’ll be happy to help.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Marketing and Sales

Industries

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution

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