Job Description

Our objective is to achieve exceptional customer engagement, foster intimacy, drive website traffic, and increase revenue through strategic utilisation of the social media marketing roadmap. 

The ideal candidate should possess a comprehensive understanding of various social media platforms and how to optimise content for maximum engagement. 

Your expertise in social media marketing will be essential in achieving our goals and establishing strong brand connections. 

Key Role

• Create marketing and social media campaigns and strategies, including planning content creation, implementation schedules and paid advertising.
• Create and distribute engaging written or graphic content in form of email marketing, web pages, blog content and social media messages.
• Support with development and monitoring of brand guidelines and key messages.
• Grow and expands social media presence into new social media platforms, plus increase presence on existing platforms including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
• Analysing and reporting on digital communications KPIs and optimising campaigns to develop improvement plans where needed.

To excel in this role, you need professional experience in communications and marketing, media development, digital marketing or fundraising, websites, email marketing, and social media. Experience in the voluntary or statutory sector and a knack for networking and relationship-building would be great.

Requirements and skills

• Proven experience in social media marketing or as a digital media specialist
• Excellent consulting, writing, editing (photos, videos and text) presentation and communication skills.
• Adequate knowledge of web design, web development, experience of using content management systems and SEO
• Experience of writing and creating email campaigns using software
• Experience of website and social media analytics and the ability to produce reports that communicate the meaning behind the data with recommendations.  Positive attitude with good multitasking and organisational ability with a proactive mindset and great interpersonal skills.
• Ability to use initiative, think creatively and solve problems and work closely with the team.

Terms and Conditions 

Based: Remote

Annual Salary: c£29,000 

Probationary period: 3 months. 

Group personal pension plan: available on satisfactory completion of 3 months service. 

Life Assurance: up to four times annual salary. 

Holiday: 25 days annual leave plus public holidays. 

Application and interviews 

• Please apply by submitting your CV and Covering letter explaining why you feel you meet the vacancy criteria. 

• We do not have a specific closing date for this post but will assess applications as they arrive and arrange interviews as required on a rolling basis until we fill the vacancy.

• Interview questions will be provided in advance

Appointment will be subject to receipt of satisfactory references and a basic DBS check. Further information regarding the Fishermen’s Mission can be obtained from our website. Find us on Twitter (@thefishmish) and Facebook