Social Media Executive

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 286630**Salary**:

- £30,637 - £34,951-
**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- 2A**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- COP - CEO**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- This post will be office based in Vauxhall, South London. The role will require some travel to other parts of the country.About the job

**Job summary**:
This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.

**About us**:
We’re the professional body for the police service in England and Wales. We work with everyone in policing to set standards, to share knowledge and good practice and to support the development of police officers and staff. Our mission is to drive a consistent approach across policing where the public and the service expect it, to boost professionalism and to improve leadership at every level.

Although we're a small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.

We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers network for equality and inclusion (ENEI) membership and status as a disability confident employer means everyone can bring their whole self to work.

**Job description**:
**Person specification**:
Some of your responsibilities will include:

- Using social media tools/social listening to understand the different viewpoints and perspectives of others and then using this information to inform our approach.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of an evaluation plan for all social media activity
- Be innovative in our co-ordination, execution and delivery of social media messages, briefing content creators where necessary to increase our social reach and effective engagement with the College’s different audiences.

To be successful in this role you’ll need:

- A sound understanding of social media and digital campaigns and able to spot a good creative idea from a bad one.
- Good experience of developing and editing copy
- Educated to degree level probably with relevant equivalent experience.

Please see the attached job description which contains full details of the role.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Innovation and execution of a social media campaign
- Experience of engagement during a crisis
- Experience of using social listening tools to your advantage
- Demonstrate an ability to run and co-ordinate a social media campaign

**Benefits**:
The College is a great place to work. We're passionate about our people and offer a wide range of benefits, including (but not limited to):

- Defined benefit pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Up to 30 days holiday (this is in addition to 8 public holidays and 2.5 privilege days)
- Continued professional development and structured career paths
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Flexi-time (for certain grades)
- A range of flexible working arrangements
- Benenden Healthcare
- National Dental Plan
- Discounts for on-line shopping
- Free employee support line
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Rewards and recognition scheme

We also have a number of thriving staff networks that provide the opportunity for advice, support and to drive change. A place to get your voice heard, share experiences and challenge our working practices to ensure equality of opportunity for all.

For more information about our benefits and staff networks, visit What we offer as an employer, College of Policing

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.Vacancy reference: CEO6315

Interviews will be held in London.

For further information visit our ‘Work for us’ page.

Please note that in order to work for the College of Policing you must have the Right to Work in the UK with indefinite leave to remain. In addition, you will also be required to provide an address history in the UK for the preceding 5 years.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups: