• Full Time
  • UK (Remote)
  • £23,000 - £27,000 GBP / Year

Website Rewilding Britain

Think Big. Act Wild.

Rewilding Britain is looking for a Social Media and Digital Assistant who will apply their creativity and digital expertise to deliver high-quality, innovative digital communications for the charity, helping increase Rewilding Britain’s reach and impact across social media, email and their website.

Overview:

  • Full-time position
  • Language: English
  • Location: Remote within the UK
  • Salary: £23,000 – £27,000 per year
  • Applications closing: 3rd November, 2024

Job Description

We are now seeking a Social Media and Digital Assistant to join Rewilding Britain and apply their creativity and digital expertise to deliver high-quality, innovative digital communications for the charity, helping increase reach and impact across social media, email and our website.

You will be part of a team with a mission to raise awareness of rewilding and promote Rewilding Britain’s campaigns, fundraising appeals, practitioner resources and policy initiatives.

The post-holder will be a strong communicator with hands-on social media production experience, who’s passionate about emerging technologies, has fantastic organisational and team working skills, thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to make a difference.

Responsibilities

As a Social Media & Digital Assistant, you will be responsible for the following:

Social media delivery and community management:

  • Plan and deliver inspiring and effective social media content, including as part of engagement campaigns, fundraising appeals and initiative launches, and in support of our partners and members.
  • Produce text- and video-/graphic-based social media posts and campaigns that are both suited to our target audiences and adapted for the most appropriate social channels.
  • Carry out community management across the charity’s digital channels, triaging queries and drafting responses.
  • Assist with the optimisation of Rewilding Britain’s current social media channels and the identification of new opportunities/platforms/trends that would help further our mission.

Email communications:

  • Support the Communications and Engagement team with the planning, building and scheduling of email communications (campaigns, supporters, fundraising, corporate partners etc) within Mailchimp.
  • Assist with the AB testing of our email marketing and executing a plan of continuous improvement for our emails.
  • Support with managing our enquiry inboxes as and when required.
  • Reporting and optimising
  • Collate statistics on the performance of our social and email channels, in line with our KPIs, and work closely with the Digital Communications Lead to make ongoing recommendations for our output.
  • Implement feedback and lessons learned to refine and improve our social media approach.
  • Stay current with sector and specialist trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously grow the effectiveness of our channels, particularly social media.

Communications support:

  • Take responsibility for triaging internal requests for content output across our channels and coordinate this across the Communications and Engagement team.
  • Assist the team in keeping our image library up to date, by uploading and tagging new imagery.
  • Support the team by uploading content to Rewilding Britain’s website, following best practice. You may also provide support for more involved web optimisation projects.
  • Support with the preparation and delivery of online and in-person events. As well as providing social media and email support, this could include representing Rewilding Britain alongside other team members at events, exhibitions, workshops, conferences, rallies and more.
  • Contribute to content production across the team, where relevant, such as producing blogs or carrying out image research.
  • Support the Communications Team with general administrative tasks where required.

Role Requirements

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

  • At least two years’ experience in a similar digital communications role, delivering successful content across social media and/or email to further organisational objectives.
  • Proven experience in managing social media channels in a professional role, including LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, as well as others that might be relevant for Rewilding Britain.
  • Experience of reporting on digital communications and campaigns and measuring impact, using analytics tools such as Google Analytics or Plausible and social media management tools such as Hootsuite and Metricool.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills for effective engagement.
  • Skills in creative content development, such as video creation and editing and producing simple graphics for our channels.
  • A thorough understanding of current social and digital communications tools, landscape and trends.
  • Strong organisational skills with experience in delivering across multiple projects and deadlines.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with crossfunctional teams.
  • High standards of writing and reading proficiency
  • A degree is not essential, but the candidate must demonstrate that they have obtained at least GCSE or equivalent in English (Pass or above)

Personal qualities:

  • The ability to work in an agile environment, responding to the every-day needs of the business while also delivering on longer-term objectives.
  • Self-motivated with the ability to work effectively and autonomously from home, while also working collaboratively as part of a tight-knit team.
  • Has a passion for digital communications and keeping up with the latest trends, with a keenness to apply this to our cause.
  • Creativity, with the ability to unlock innovation as an individual and a team player.
  • A passion for nature restoration and rewilding and an eagerness to develop learning in this area.

Desirable:

  • Experience working in a sector relevant to rewilding, and understanding of the rewilding movement.
  • Experience in producing email communications in a professional environment.
  • Experience in managing web content, with an understanding of best practice and familiarity with web content management systems.
  • An understanding of SEO and the role this plays in digital communications.
  • An understanding of social media’s role in paid advertising and a willingness to support with paid social campaigns.
  • Skilled in using email marketing systems (such as Mailchimp) to build emails and/or automated journeys.
  • Skills in relevant content production programmes such as Adobe Creative Suite.

How to apply?

To apply for this role, please send your CV as well as a one page summary on what you would bring to the role to jobs@rewildingbritain.org.uk by 11:59pm Sunday 3 November 2024.

We aim to hold online interviews on Thursday 21 November 2024 via Zoom and shortlisted candidates will be expected to complete a task to share at the interview (the brief will be given when invited to interview).

To apply for this job email your details to jobs@rewildingbritain.org.uk.