Content Creator

Content Creator, NLA

Reports to: Head of Communications

**Salary**: £26,000 to £28,000 depending on experience per annum Full Time.

NLA - London’s built environment community is looking for an exceptional coordinator to join our team. This is a great opportunity for a talented videographer and content creator to refine their skillset in a variety of content creation needs, working as a key member in a close team on a variety of creative and interesting activities.

**What is NLA?
NLA is London’s built environment community. Our purpose is to make London a better place to live, work and visit.

We explore the built environment and bring the industry together, encouraging debate, learnings and examination of buildings and all the spaces in-between. We do this through a busy year-round programme of research, events, festivals, exhibitions, publications, promoting debate and discussion about the future of cities.

Our fast-growing membership spans across public and private sectors, in London, UK and internationally, and we have two central London public exhibition galleries both with giant interactive models of central London, where anyone can come to learn about future plans for London.

**About the role
We are looking for an organised and motivated content creator and talented copywriter to provide a critical level of support to the team across a wide range of tasks, particularly for One City, the London Festival of Architecture (LFA), and other key programmes. This is a great role for a talented writer and content creator.

You will create and schedule cultural photography and influencer-style social media videography, managing and curating the daily Instagram feed of One City (112k followers) alongside other website, blog, TikTok and newsletter features, focused on the cultural offer of the City, including bars, cafes, art exhibitions, and more.

You will also create and schedule social media content across the business for key moments in NLA’s busy calendar, including report launches, the seasonal moments around LFA, and more.

NLA is proud to support flexible working in a relaxed and stimulating environment. We believe in giving our staff freedom and trust in order to bring out the best in them. You can work flexibly from our Farringdon office (with two mandatory team days a week), our City of London gallery, and from home.

Tasks include:

- Shoot and schedule high quality photographs of London architecture, NLA events and the City of London’s architectural gems and businesses for social media feeds across the business
- Shoot and create original videography for Reels and TikTok features
- Curate the One City Instagram feed with daily static photos and Reels roughly 3x a month
- Populate and manage the One City TikTok page (~20k followers)
- Update One City’s digital listings including writing bi-monthly newsletters, website listings, and blog features
- Work with City businesses and stakeholders and provide regular updates on content coverage
- Support social media updates across the business as applicable
- Work with freelancers for additional photography and videography needs across the business, including regular event photography
- Consistently analyse and develop photography and videography formats and platforms based on past successes / shifting trends
- Contribute to team brainstorms and generate ideas for content, brand initiatives and campaigns.

**What we are looking for**

You will be a creative self-starter with a passion for content creation and London’s culture and built environment. This is a great role for a talented creative with an interest in different forms of social media. You will thrive in a fast-paced, stimulating environment, and share our team’s core values by always being informed, rigorous, collaborative and responsive in everything you do.

Required experience and skills:

- Excellent photography and social-media-style videography skills
- Exceptional visual eye
- Strong copywriting skills
- Experience of working on social media campaigns under a busy schedule
- Clear interest in the built environment, architecture and/or design
- Some experience working in videography and content creation
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Ability to work under pressure and in a fast-paced environment
- A proactive team player
- Enthusiastic and willing to undertake other tasks and learn new skills
- Work to tight deadlines with a can-do attitude.

Not essential, but appreciated:

- Experience using Premiere Pro and other Adobe softwares
- Experience working in art, design or the built environment industry

This is a London-based role. Holiday 25 days per year (including Christmas closure) plus bank holidays. The normal working week is 40 hours, Monday to Friday, with limited ad-hoc morning/evening work that can be reclaimed as TOIL.

**Equal Opportunity**

It is the policy of NLA to treat all employees, visitors, and job applicants fairly and equally regardless of