Social and Content Lead

Surfing England; Bude; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A national governing body for surfing in the UK is seeking a Social and Content Lead to lead and create compelling content across social media channels. The role involves developing strategies to grow audience engagement and converting followers into members. Candidates should have a strong passion for surfing, experience with social media management, and skills in content creation and editing. This position offers the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic environment as part of a passionate team.

Benefits

Travel for events

Opportunity for progression

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• 2 years experience managing social media platforms or equivalent.
• Experience capturing surf content and personal storytelling.
• Strong knowledge of editing software.

Responsibilities

• Lead social media strategy and engagement.
• Generate content backed by analytics.
• Manage social media during events.

Skills

Knowledge of surfing and the surf community

Social media management

Filming high quality content

Editing skills

Creative writing

Organisation skills

Team collaboration

Enthusiasm for surfing

Tools

Editing software

Job description

Job Opportunity: Social and Content Lead

To lead on creating and delivering content on SE’s social media channels, helping to grow our audience, engagement and conversions to memberships. You will have a key role in telling the story of surfing in England, from our grassroots programmes to Team England, whilst delivering value for our partners and sponsors. It’s an exciting opportunity for a creative and motivated person with a passion for surfing to gain allot of experience across all aspects of a dynamic and fast paced national governing body.

Please note: due to the seasonal nature of Surfing England’s calendar, this role requires regular weekend working. From April to October, we run events on the majority of weekends, many of which require social media presence and are opportunities to capture great content. Flexibility and enthusiasm for event-based work (which are often early starts and late finishes) is essential for this role.

Key Responsibilities

• To take the lead on creating a strategy for Surfing England’s social media channels, creating a plan for growth and increased engagement
• Management of our social media platforms, working across the team to generate content and stories, backed up with analytics and performance data
• Creating content that tells the story of our surfers and community, delivering an engaging feed that draws in a diverse audience
• During events, work as part of the events team, taking responsibility for social media and content creation, including creating media briefs, managing our freelance photographers and videographers and post event writing press releases, finalising edits and sharing across our platforms and press partners
• Being creative and innovative in your approach to developing our social media, bringing forward ideas to help deliver partner outputs, create new revenue streams, grow our membership and reach new audiences
• Ensuring the appropriate nature of all content, and refining content from other team members, freelancers, coaches, etc

Person Specification

We’re a small, passionate team and alongside technical competence we need people who bring positive energy and a great attitude to the team.

You’ll be proactive and adaptable and a natural do-er, taking initiative to see what needs doing and make it happen, whether that’s capturing content, problem solving with corporate partners or helping put up event gazebos. You’ll take pride in your work, and bring a positive, optimistic energy to everything you do.

Required Skills, Experience and Knowledge

• Knowledge of and passion for surfing and the surf community in England
• Preferred 2 years’ experience managing social media platforms for a brand, company or person(s) (or an equivalent level of demonstrable experience)
• Recent experience of filming high quality surf content, with a strong understanding of how to capture both action content and personal story telling
• Strong editing skills, with a quick turnaround. Sound knowledge of editing software (desktop and mobile)
• Experience in creative writing
• Excellent organisation skills. You’ll be juggling lots of workstreams, with high demands from the team for content
• Be a genuine team player, and be prepared to assist with ad-hoc tasks such as event site build, break, trailer loading, driving vans with kit, etc
• Bags of enthusiasm for surfing and for using surfing as a tool for positive change

This job description identifies the main purpose of the role and its responsibilities. Due to being a small organisation, there may be requirements outside of this.

If you believe you could take on this role and fulfil its tasks and wish to join Surfing England at a pivotal time with a vision for growth and positive impact – then we want to hear from you!

Location: Office based – Braunton, North Devon. With lots of travel for events, etc.

Hours:Preferable full time, a minimum of 4 days a week considered

Employment type:12 months initial contract, view to permanent

Requirements: Full clean UK driving license and own vehicle (mileage for work purposes will be paid)

This role reports to the Operations Manager.

To Apply

Please submit:

• A video introducing yourself, talking us through your ideas to grow our social media channel to 100k (no longer than 5 minutes);
• A link to your portfolio and/or social media channels

Closing deadline: Sunday 18 th January at 23:59.Please note we reserve the right to close applications early.

Interviews: Wednesday 4 th or Thursday 5 th February at our office in Braunton, North Devon. If you have a preference of day, please specify in your application.

If you have queries about the role, please contact Hannah on [e-mail] (please note away from the office from Saturday 20 th – Monday 5 th January).

About Surfing England

Surfing England is the sport’s National Governing Body (NGB) as recognised by Sport England and we look after the sport from grass roots through to Team England. At the heart of what we do, is serving and supporting our membership of surfers, surf coaches, clubs and schools.

There has never been a more exciting time to be involved in English surfing. A vibrant and exciting club scene, artificial waves being rolled out in major cities, record levels of participation and some amazing talent coming through the competitive ranks.Alongside the sporting potential of surfing, it is also being recognised as a fantastic tool for positive social change, with many of our clubs & schools involved in amazing projects, from overcoming the barriers to get teenage girls involved in sport to providing mental health support for the blue light emergency services.

This role will play an integral part in the future of Surfing England, whilst offering the right person a rare opportunity to gain hands‑on experience across events, performance sport, community programmes and partnerships. You’ll develop a broad skillset, build industry connections, and play a meaningful role in the growth of surfing in England, with opportunities for progression as the organisation evolves.