Social Media Assistant, BBC Children in Need

JIM - Jobs In Manchester; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

The BBC Children in Need is seeking a Social Media Assistant to support their digital marketing efforts during the busy appeal season. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain experience in digital marketing projects, working across various social platforms and with a dedicated team, facilitating the charity's mission to support children and young people.

Qualifications

• Experience copywriting to brand guidelines.
• Experience in social media content planning and posting.
• Experience filming and editing short-form content.

Responsibilities

• Support Digital Marketing Managers with charity’s social media accounts.
• Coordinate content production and editing.
• Respond to supporters directly.

Skills

Copywriting

Social Media Management

Video Editing

Content Scheduling

Filming

Tools

Adobe Premiere

Job description

Job Requisition ID: 24358

Job Closing Date: 24 June 2025

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: A

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract / Attachment, Full-time (01 September 2025 – 31 December 2025)

DEPARTMENT: BBC Children in Need

LOCATION: Salford – Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £23,000 – £25,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. If you’d like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there’s no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

BBC Children in Need believes that every child should have the chance to thrive and be the best they can be.

Our digital marketing teams helps enable this through our social, email and website channels. Our Social Media Assistant is a key role during our busy appeal season, supporting our digital marketing executives to deliver our campaign across our social platforms.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Working across our entire appeal, this is an opportunity to gain experience in a wide range of digital marketing projects, getting involved in everything from video production and editing to writing, scheduling and moderation. You will work alongside a small number of highly supportive digital marketing colleagues whilst also getting the chance to learn from a wide range of teams within the charity who are united in their desire to help children and young people.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Supporting Digital Marketing Managers with looking after the day to day running of the charity’s social media accounts (currently Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, TikTok).
• Social media content planning
• Coordinating with our creative team for content production as well as copywriting, filming and editing content yourself
• Content scheduling
• You will also support our supporter care team in responding to our supporters directly.
  
  

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience of copywriting to specific tone of voice/brand guidelines
• Experience of posting and scheduling content across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Linkedin for a charity or other not for profit organisation
• Experience filming short form social media content
• Experience video editing in Adobe Premiere or equivalent for a charity or not-for-profit organisation
• Experience of working to tight deadlines and managing time independently
  
  

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

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Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.