Social Media Content Creator

Hope for Justice; Tennessee; Hybrid; USD 45,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Medical, dental and vision benefits

4 weeks paid vacation

401(k) with employer match

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Hope for Justice is seeking a Social Media Content Creator to develop engaging, platform-appropriate content to raise awareness and support campaigns against human trafficking. The role includes filming, editing, copywriting and design for social channels, with hybrid work in Tennessee.

You will produce short-form videos, create graphics, and collaborate with teams to empower staff globally while maintaining safeguarding standards and a strong brand voice.

Qualifications

• Experience creating content for social media channels (personal or brand).
• Demonstrated growth in metrics (followers/engagement).
• Experience with non-profit or advocacy campaigns is desirable.
• Familiarity with safeguarding/content guidelines is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create engaging social media content for multiple brands and campaigns.
• Produce short-form videos and reels for platforms like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube.
• Capture photos/videos at events and interviews.
• Monitor comments and DMs; respond and escalate issues as needed.
• Support social campaigns with asset creation and collaboration with teams.
• Train and empower global staff to capture content.

Skills

Creative thinking

Storytelling ability

Written communication

Verbal communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree (related field)

Tools

CapCut Pro

Adobe Premiere

Final Cut Pro

Adobe Express

Canva video editing

InShot

Later.com

Hootsuite/Buffer

Job description

Location: Hybrid / Tennessee, USA
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Commercial & Marketing | Media
Annual Salary range:from $ 45,000.00 to $ 52,000.00
Salary details: Dependant on Experience

Hope for Justice is looking for a Social Media Content Creator to create engaging, impactful and platform-appropriate social media content that helps raise awareness, grow audiences, inspire action and supports Hope for Justice's work to fight human trafficking. This creative role involves filming, editing and producing short-form video content, plus copywriting and design, for social channels.

Main Duties

CONTENT CREATION, STORYTELLING AND CAMPAIGN SUPPORT

• Plan and create engaging social-first content (text, graphic and video) for Hope for Justice, Slave-Free Alliance and our associated sub-brands, events and campaigns.
• Produce short-form video and reels by filming and/or editing short videos for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube, and any other emerging social platforms, including filming yourself.
• Capture photography and video content at events, visits, interviews and similar.
• Identify powerful stories and shareable moments.
• Create basic graphics or designed assets for social media, or brief and work alongside our Senior Graphic Designer to create more complex assets.
• Support campaigns through creation of social assets, including collaborative campaigns alongside colleagues such as our Philanthropy team or Training team.
• Empower staff around the world (for example, in Ethiopia and Uganda) to capture desired content for our social channels through training and sharing best practice. This might be from the field, when attending events, or simpler pieces-to-camera.

COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT

• Monitor public comments and private DMs across our socials and respond, ensuring our audiences feel engaged with through appropriate replies / comments / reactions. Deal with or upscale complex or hostile enquiries appropriately, especially any with a safeguarding component.

SOCIAL TRENDS, AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

• Stay up to date with platform developments and trends.
• Identify opportunities for reactive content, based on items in the news or pop culture, announcement, trending issues, or similar.
• Review content performance and engagement metrics to improve output.

CONTENT PLANNING AND PUBLISHING

• Contribute content ideas and schedule content natively or using third-party scheduling tools such as Later.com

SAFEGUARDING

• Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise.

Key Result Areas

• Key social metrics and indicators hit departmental targets in line with overall Digital & Communications strategy
• Social media aspects of awareness and fundraising campaigns hit their goals, plus those associated with specific needs, such as event sign-ups
• Content generates positive feedback and avoids creating reputational risk or financial harm for Hope for Justice and Slave-Free Alliance
• Help maintain a consistent brand voice and ensure messaging stays within guidelines agreed with Marketing Manager and Head of Digital & Comms
• Content is tailored and packaged appropriately for different audiences and purposes, for example fundraising, awareness, policy, business-focused content, faith-focused content, and so on

Soft Skills

• Creative thinking and storytelling ability
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Strong visual eye and content instincts
• Up-to-date with social media trends
• Communication and collaboration

Technical Skills

• Video filming and editing, with working knowledge of at least one of: CapCut Pro, Adobe Premiere (Rush or Pro), Final Cut Pro, Adobe Express, Canva video editing, or InShot
• Basic photography and content capture
• Basic design skills, with a knowledge of Canva, Adobe suite products or equivalent tools
• Familiarity with social scheduling tools such as Later.com, Hootsuite or Buffer
• Familiarity with accessibility issues surrounding digital content, such as use of alt-text, captions, and copywriting best practice.

Experience & Education

Education

• Educational qualification in a field related to communications, marketing, journalism or design (desirable)

Experience

• Experience creating content for social media channels, either a personal channel with significant follower count, or for a brand (essential)
• Demonstrable experience of how your content grew key metrics for one or more social channels, including follower counts, likes and engagement (essential)
• Work experience or volunteering with a non-profit organization or campaign, especially one dealing with vulnerable or at-risk people, justice issues or international development (desirable)

For all roles:

Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise.

Benefits of working at Hope for Justice

Hope for Justice is committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff. This includes:

• Medical, dental and vison benefits with employer contributions
• Supplemental life insurance
• Hybrid and Flexible working environments
• 4 weeks paid vacation increasing annually up to 22 days (prorated based on start date and hours worked)
• 11 paid holidays
• Birthday Day
• Dependent leave
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• 401(k) with employer match
• Employee Assistance Program for staff and their family.

Job Type: Full time

Salary: Up to $52,000 depending on experience

Closing date: November 27, 2026 with interviews taking place on a rolling basis

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy – to view this please click here . Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme . In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Personal data of the selected candidate(s) may be transmitted to INTERPOL for a security check for the purpose of identifying threats the candidate could pose to children and vulnerable persons in regard to a sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment offences.

We would like to inform you that due to the high number of applicants we receive, we regret that we are not able to respond individually to all applicants. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps in the selection process, thank you for your understanding.