Senior Digital Media Manager

Farringdon - with international travel

Closing Date: 3 March 2024
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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a creative and knowledgeable digital content professional with extensive multimedia experience to join us as our Senior Digital Media Manager where you will work with within our award-winning press team, across the organisation.

Please note: This role will involve a minimum of 1 day per week in our Farringdon office and there will also be international travel in this role.

About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.  When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave.  We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About the role
As a Senior Digital Media Manager, you will develop and lead on digital output for Save the Children UK's media team producing content for external media and our own social media channels. You will be able to co-lead on our social media squad as well as pitching and securing multimedia stories too.

In this role, you will:

• Co–lead our social media squad, to deliver impactful and creative campaigns across Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn Tik Tok and YouTube to an audience of over 1.5 million supporters. 
• Develop and produce world class digital content to support News, PR and Artist teams including film, photo, data visualisation, and other innovative formats. 
• Pitch and land stories with digital first outlets and photo & video desks, leveraging contacts, and targeting outlets in line with overall media strategy. 
• Map and identify opportunities for high profile digital partnerships engaging platforms, influencers, and digital commentators.  
• Produce world class digital content for our owned channels to deliver our campaigning and fundraising objectives in line with our digital strategy.  
• Platform children's voices across digital outlets in unique, creative, and compelling ways to position Save the Children as a leader in the sector on digital.
• Turn around content on tight deadlines in a high-pressure environment, keeping pace with fast-changing news agenda. 

About you

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Expert knowledge of social media, digital trends and developments.
• A track record of producing high-impact digital content in a fast-paced news environment. 
• Strong media skills including a sound grasp of what different media outlets want, a nose for a story and well-developed persuasion skills. A sound feel for the politics and concerns of different media outlets and their readership/audiences and the implications for Save the Children's messages. 
• Knowledge and expertise in developing creative projects for digital platforms.
• Excellent reactive skills and ability to make the most of breaking stories to maximise opportunities for engagement. 
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

What we offer you:
Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

•    We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
•    We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. 

Closing date: Sunday 3rd March 2024 

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:
The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter).  This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 
Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 
Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.