Social Media Assistant (Casual)
Social Media Assistant -
Role: Casual - flexible hours based on team needs and the sporting calendar.
Location: London Bridge (minimum three days a week).
The Team:
talkSPORT is the worlds biggest sports radio station and a globally renowned digital publisher with a social footprint of more than 10M followers.
The team spans several departments including editorial social audience and tech and were looking for a new Social Media Assistant to help manage and deliver the creation of high-quality graphics and the scheduling and delivery of website articles across our social channels.
The Role:
talkSPORT is looking for a Social Media Assistant (Casual) to join our website team.
Youll utilise your creativity to take a proactive lead on creating bespoke high-quality graphics for our various social media channels. These will serve to spark on-platform engagement encouraging audiences to interact with our posts and to drive traffic back to our owned and operated platforms namely .
Working closely with the Social Media Editor and wider editorial team youll support the day-to-day running of our accounts ensuring talkSPORTs website content is promoted quickly accurately and creatively across platforms including Facebook X YouTube and Instagram.
Alongside supporting our main UK-focused social channels youll also play a key role in helping to build and grow talkSPORTs new U.S. sports social accounts therefore knowledge of a variety of sports is essential.
This is a hands-on fast-paced role ideal for someone who lives and breathes sport and wants to kick-start a career in social or digital media.
Day to day you will:
Create highly engaging graphics for our social channels based on the sporting news cycle to encourage conversation and debate
Post and schedule stories clips and graphics across multiple social platforms
Write sharp engaging headlines and captions that help drive views engagement and conversation
Create and crop visuals using Photoshop Canva or similar tools to support our editorial teams
React quickly to breaking news trending topics and live sports moments with timely platform-optimised posts
Help monitor real-time traffic and social engagement to inform whats working
Work collaboratively with the wider editorial and video teams to ensure content consistency across platforms
What were looking for in the ideal candidate:
Comfortable using Photoshop and/or possessing general graphic design skills
Strong knowledge and passion for multiple sports with a particular interest in Football Boxing and NFL
Experience of creating and scheduling content across various social channels
Understanding of what content performs well across specific platforms such as Facebook Instagram and X
Excellent spelling grammar and attention to detail
Ability to work accurately and efficiently under pressure
Willingness to work evenings and weekends around key sporting events
Able to commute into our London Bridge offices at least three times a week
About The Candidate
About The Company
Required Experience:
Junior IC
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