Senior Social Media Content Editor

Senior Social Media Content Editor

Salary: National – ranging from £43,300 – £57,000 and London from £46,400 – £60,000 per annum

In the Communications directorate at the FCA we change opinions and behaviours to enable a fair and thriving financial services market for the good of consumers and the economy. It’s an exciting time as we’re expanding our team and changing how we do things to deliver more engaging, insight-led, audience focused communications. If you want to be part of a supportive and fun team, work across a wide range of issues and are ready to be challenged, curious and creative then come and join us.

The team/department 

The Strategic Communications and News team is new to the FCA’s Communications directorate. This team is at the heart of what and how the organisation communicates – working with the strategy team to help set and deliver the FCA’s external communication objectives and ensuring that our communication is clear, concise and compelling. The team is split into three: strategic communication partners, editorial and speechwriting, and social media, the team where this role sits. 

What you will be doing (the role)

• Supporting the Lead Associate with social media content creation, planning, scheduling and reporting

• Helping to deliver the organisational social media plan for organic and paid-for content, working effectively and collaboratively with the Strategy & Planning team and Strategic Comms Partners

• Day-to-day responsibility for managing the FCA’s social media channels, keeping them updated regularly with a stream of creative, distinctive and engaging content and writing copy for social media posts that align with our strategy

• Managing the production and editing of high quality and visually appealing and accessible social media content including animations, videos and podcasts

• Staying on top of trends and best practice in social media, bringing inspiration to the team for how to make our channels best-in-class and sharing expertise with communications colleagues to help build capability

• Monitoring and analysing social media performance metrics to identify areas for improvement and make data driven changes to the output of our channels

• Ensuring consistency in brand messaging, tone and visual identify across channels

• There may also be an opportunity for line managing a more junior Social Media Content Editor

What you will get from the role

It’s an exciting time to be joining the FCA Communications directorate and this role will be key as we develop our new social media function. You will have the opportunity to make a real difference to the way we communicate and will shape the look and feel of our social media channels.

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

• Private healthcare with Bupa

• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)

• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary

• Income protection

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

The skills and experience you will have

Minimum

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role. 

• Experience of managing multiple corporate social media channels (I.e., LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube) 

• Experience of delivering creative social media content targeted at relevant audiences

• Proven experience of working with colleagues and stakeholders confidently and constructively in order to deliver creative content

Essential

• Experience of how to plan, create and execute social media campaigns 

• Experienced designer, videographer or podcast producer

• Knowledge of different social media channels and what content works best on each to achieve objectives

• Highly proficient at Hootsuite or similar channel management platform

• Familiar with relevant platforms, tools and systems to support social media delivery, syndication, monitoring and evaluation including Pulsar, and other aggregators/publishing systems, Google Analytics 4

• Strong technical knowledge of fast changing social media channels, trends and opportunities – including those offered by AI and emerging technologies

• Ability to turn complex information into clear, compelling, concise social-first content ideas tailored to the channel and audience for most impact

• Previous line management experience and/or demonstrable experience of supporting and coaching more junior team members would be advantageous

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of nearly 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here.

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our role.

Flexible working

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.

Multi-location

As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.

Useful information

Applications for this role close at 23:59 on Thursday 5th September 2024.

This role is graded as Senior Associate – Corporate.

There are two Senior Social Media Content Editor roles available.

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact: 

• For internal applicants, please contact Melanie Dubock at [email protected]

• For external applicants, please contact Rosie-Grace Ford at [email protected]

What to expect from our interview process

The interview process will be over one or two stages where your core competencies will be assessed.

Application support

We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.

If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.