Social Media Executive, Radio 1, Bbc Sounds

5 days ago

London, United Kingdom BBC Full time

Job Introduction
We are looking for a Social Media Executive who shares our love of BBC Radio, music, and pop culture to join a creative team using social media to help young fans discover live radio, music and podcasts. This role sits in the BBC radio’s central social media team that runs accounts, commissions video, memes and moments, and edits and optimises content for channels that reach millions every week.

Main Responsibilities
Your challenge will be to create fun, authentic and engaging content for our channels that bring our audio output to life, give young fans access to some of the biggest stars and broadcasters in the world, and amplifies some of the most exciting music and radio moments of the year.

You will work alongside a team of social media managers and executives, digital production teams and our DJs and presenters. Your job will be to support huge social campaigns, react quickly to memes and trending moments, devise brilliant thumb stopping formats and ideas that our audiences will love, laugh with or be thrilled by.

Within this role you should expect to work on any of our Pop Radio brands - Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2, 6 Music and Asian Network - but the role will have a Radio 1 focus.

You will need to demonstrate the following:

- A passion for audio, our radio programmes and DJs, and love music
- Proven experience of working with a youth publisher, radio broadcaster or developing your own personal brand/account
- Strong video and image editing skills - must be able to work within the Adobe Creative Suite, be a mobile filming expert and use a variety of apps, filters and sound options to create world class, thumb stopping social formats for platforms such as TikTok or Reels or Shorts.
- Familiarity with social media analytics and how to use them to inform content decisions and choices
- Confident at communicating your ideas, and persuading teams to collaborate at all levels whether they are DJs, artists and guests visiting our stations or production teams

About the BBC
We don’t focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Package Description
Band: C
Contract type: Continuing contract
Location: London or Salford
- **_Excellent career progression _**- the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
- **_Unrivalled training and development opportunities_** - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
- **_Benefits _**:

- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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