Social Media Manager

Accepting Applications Until:

7 October 2025

Job Description

Your Role: Broadcast Journalist

LBC’s Social Media Manager will report to LBC’s Head of Social Media and will play a meaningful role in creating compelling content that sets the news agenda and brings LBC’s award-winning on-air content to the online environment.

As a Social Media Manager at Global, you will:

Key Responsibilities

• Photo/video editing (30%): Taking LBC’s on-air content and reporter-made off-air content and creating compelling social media videos for our various platforms. You’ll also make thumb-stopping images that make our clips stand out from the crowd.
• Copywriting (30%): Crafting attention-grabbing sells and engaging headlines.
• Management (20%): Deputising for the Head of Social Media and running the team in their absence.
• Strategy (20%): Recognising patterns and trends to determine what sort of content to create to best serve our audience.

What You’ll Love About This Role

Think Big: You have the potential to reach billions of people in this role. Create amazing content that will be seen all over the world.

Own It: Be part of a talented and hard-working team with a growing online following.

Keep it Simple: Build our subscribers with high-quality content.

Better Together: Collaborate with a team of journalists and social media experts to make our content as good as it can be.

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• Learnt the ins and outs of what makes LBC’s audience tick.
• Continued the positive trajectory of follower-growth.
• Built good working relationships within the social media team and with LBC presenters
• and producers.

What You’Ll Need

• Adobe Suite proficiency: Premiere Pro and Photoshop skills are required.
• Attention to detail: Our content is regularly watched millions of times. We don’t want millions of people to see a mistake next to the LBC name! Disciplined proof-checking is required.
• Creativity: Finding fun and inventive ways to sell our content to as many viewers as possible.
• Pride in your work: Numbers aren’t everything. We want to create a good product that our audience can enjoy and appreciate. Let’s make beautiful content.
• Coaching and Development: Nurturing talent by empowering and guiding individuals to unlock their potential
• Building Trust: Creating and maintaining an inclusive environment where diverse views and experiences are welcomed and celebrated in your team
• Creativity: Finding fun and inventive ways to sell our content to as many viewers as possible.