Sport Social Media Manager

Job Description

The Sun Online is the biggest digital newsbrand in the UK and now the fastest-growing news site in the US. The Sun’s multi-award-winning Audience department sits at the heart of our newsroom, with our talented journalists publishing the best coverage of news, sport, TV and showbiz, lifestyle and family value. The team is constantly evolving, driving record traffic across all platforms, growing new audiences, and building engagement and loyalty with our readers.

We’re looking for a talented,highly motivated, resourceful individual, with deep knowledge of social media platforms and sports news, to join The Sun Sport Social team.

Day to day you will:

• Manage and grow multiple accounts including The Sun Football, Sun Sport and Dream Team on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

• Suggest themes and stories, and guide editorial on what is and isn’t working for social

• Send push notifications on a range of sporting topics to drive page views

• Cover a range of high-profile sporting events including the Premier League, World Cup, Olympics and major boxing matches

• Source and create high-quality original engagement content including graphics, and work with the video team to script and upload video content

• Work directly with editorial, digital, video, picture, design, commercial and marketing teams, ensuring their respective demands are met

• Contribute to The Sun’s adoption of emerging social platforms and tools, and be part of the process to help grow The Sun’s sport social channels

What we are looking for from you:

• Detailed knowledge of social media platforms and analytics tools

• A keen interest in football, boxing, MMA, horse racing and US sports

• A background in sport editorial or copywriting is preferable

• Newsroom experience would be an advantage

• Good communication skills

• Calm under pressure and able to deliver work at a consistently high standard

• Proactive and displays a willingness to take on any task

• Take initiative in order to achieve desired results

• Organised and a good problem-solver, able to eliminate obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches

• Understanding of the Sun Sport brand, both print and digital

Application process

Please send your CV and a cover letter.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• 30 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.