Social Media Specialist

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club; Greater London; Presencial; GBP 32.000 - 43.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is seeking an all-round social media professional to elevate our content across men’s, women’s, and stadium accounts, delivering a consistent tone and bold storytelling. You will plan, schedule and post across all channels, drive engagement and grow our online communities while collaborating with content producers and designers.

You will stay ahead of trends, manage freelance contributors on matchdays, and react quickly to events to maximise reach.

Formación

• Excellent knowledge of social media platforms, trends and the football landscape.
• Great knowledge of social media tools such as Sprout Social, Blinkfire and WSC.
• Confident to create and deploy efficient workflows with video and graphics knowledge.

Responsabilidades

• Above all, planning, scheduling and posting across all of the club’s channels.
• Execute our fan growth and engagement strategy, ensuring we are building and engaging our online communities.
• Content creation across the Spurs fanbase and community on a daily basis, ensuring alignment with core content objectives.
• Analysing and optimising social output to achieve peak performance.
• Work directly within a team of content producers, content creators and graphic designers to produce industry leading social content.
• Work flexibly, including evenings and weekends as per the needs of the calendar.
• React to events on and off the pitch in real-time and offer input and content across club platforms.
• Utilise the club’s social platforms to promote and drive traffic to owned platforms.
• Managing social media freelancers (junior level) to support output on matchday.
• Stay abreast of the latest social trends and emerging platforms to inform THFC’s social strategies.

Conocimientos

Social media expertise

Football knowledge

Content strategy

Herramientas

Sprout Social

Blinkfire

WSC

Descripción del empleo

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur is an iconic English football club, playing in the Premier League and Women’s Super League. From North London to the world, our fanbase spans continents, cultures, and generations.

Tottenham Hotspur is a club that’s always dared to push boundaries, breaking new ground, and rewriting history. We are at our brightest when we’re all together. Our club, our teams, our community.

We are entering a new era at Tottenham with a new club strategy, new leadership, and a focus on putting our supporters at the heart of everything we do as we continue to strengthen our connection with our home, each other, and the DNA of our club. A big part of achieving this is through our marketing department, a centre of excellence responsible for our Brand (what we say), our Creative (how we say it), and our Digital strategy (where we say it).

Job Purpose

This role is to help boost our social team to new levels. We are looking for an all-rounder with the opportunity to take on particular focus on our women’s and stadium accounts, to make sure we deliver to the highest standard across all subjects and platforms, with one consistent tone of voice and pride in our work.

Key Responsibilities

• Above all, planning, scheduling and posting across all of the club’s channels
• Execute our fan growth and engagement strategy, ensuring we are building and engaging our online communities
• Content creation across the Spurs fanbase and community on a daily basis, ensuring what we make aligns with our core content objectives
• Analysing and optimising social output to achieve peak performance
• Work directly within a team of content producers, content creators and graphic designers to produce industry leading social content
• Work flexibly, including evenings and weekends as per the needs of the calendar
• React to events on and off the pitch in real-time and offer appropriate input and content across club platforms
• Utilise the club’s social platforms so we’re promoting and driving traffic to owned and operated platforms
• Managing social media freelancers (junior level), to support our output on matchday
• Stay abreast of the latest social trends, platform tools and emerging platforms to help inform THFC’s social strategies

Person Specification

Personal Attributes

• A passion for women’s football and music/cultural events and moments is a huge advantage
• Forward planning: Thinking ahead, generating innovative ideas
• Creative thinker with an organised approach
• Values and respects others, building relationships and collaborating
• Behaving proactively, and taking responsibility and solving problems where they arise
• Challenging our team on how can we be innovative and different
• Working well in a team
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly-pressured environment
• Building and maintaining trusting relationships with players and senior coaching staff, communicating in an effective and appropriate manner

Skills and Experience

• Excellent knowledge of social media platforms, trends and the football landscape
• Great knowledge of social media tools (such as but not limited to Sprout Social, Blinkfire, WSC)
• Confident to create and deploy efficient workflows using tools such as e.g. Slate, Azzuu, etc and have a knowledge of video and graphics workflows
• Excellent attention to detail, spelling, and grammar
• Great knowledge of football (and wider sports and culture)

Our Responsibility to you

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. Successful candidates are to be reminded they would be subject to various background, DBS, and reference checks for this role.

We welcome applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, gender, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications or due to business needs, so early applications are encouraged.