SOCIAL MEDIA EXECUTIVE

We’re looking for a highly-engaged, proactive individual with a keen eye for both detail and social/cultural trends. The successful candidate will provide essential support to our internal content managers and the Social Video Manager to execute channel plans, as well as spotting engagement opportunities to drive meaningful interactions with their audiences.

The ideal candidate will have excellent experience managing online communities, understand how to optimise content for specific platforms and be confident in using design and video tools (Photoshop, Azzuu, Slate) to optimise assets for high-impact on social. They must also be able to spot storytelling opportunities, ensuring our channels are well planned, but also reactive, relevant and authentic.

It goes without saying the successful applicant will have a real passion for sport – and football in particular – is dedicated, sociable and committed. Strong communication skills are a must for this role, as well as a proactive approach.

Our Social Media Executive will act as a Community Manager, with a clear focus on engaging with social media communities and execution of content plans across channels including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X and Threads. This is a vital role, working closely with our content managers, to ideate, create and publish planned and live reactive content, actively engaging with the audience to foster community growth and deepen connections. The role holder will support across matchdays and media days, requiring willingness to work weekends and evenings as and when needed.

• Actively interact with online communities, engaging with other users’ posts and comments

• Identifying social and cultural trends that can become content opportunities – delivered with relevancy and authenticity

• Ideate and publish planned and live content across social media channels

• Assist with writing captions that fit each platform’s tone, best practices – using design and video tools (Photoshop, Azzuu, Slate) to optimise distribution

• Provide dedicated support to our internal channel managers and our Social Video Manager across channel management, planning and content scheduling

• Support across matchdays – ensuring content opportunities are identified, delivering content output and engaging the community

• Monitor platforms and conversations to spot storytelling opportunities and then ideate how they are delivered across the channels

• Contribute to ideation and briefing sessions, working closely with the client, to drive creative innovation and effective implementation of the content strategy

• Use platform analytics to monitor engagement performance, particularly around community activity and reactive content, to inform future strategy

• Essential: Demonstrable experience in managing and engaging with online communities, preferably for an agency or a sports rightsholder

• Essential: Excellent knowledge of the social media platforms and how to optimise for each one
  Essential: A proven track record of actively managing and building online communities, driving positive engagement

• Essential: Experience working with high-profile talent, brands and/or organisations

• Essential: Experience creating and publishing reactive content under pressure

• Essential: Experience of working in sport
  Essential: Proficient in using design and/or video editing software (eg. Photoshop, Azzuu, Slate) to rapidly optimise assets

• Essential: Strong communication skills

• Essential: Willingness to work weekends in line with the sporting calendar

• Essential: Strong copyediting, with a sharp eye for detail

• Essential: Experience of working in a team environment

• Desirable: Experience of using analytics tools to assess content performance

• Desirable: Experience working with editing software such as Adobe Photoshop

• Desirable: Some knowledge, and a desire to enhance existing know-how, regarding how AI can improve workflows, processes and delivery

The successful applicant will receive the following: 

• A competitive salary

• 25 days of annual leave

• A day off for their birthday

• Private healthcare

• Regular performance and salary reviews

Ten Toes is a fully-committed sports marketing agency with a clear and passionate ambition: to bring talent, brands and organisations closer to their fans - and to each other.

We build personal brands for world-class athletes like Harry Kane, Alessia Russo and Maro Itoje, aligning them with causes and commercial partners that fit. Our network extends far beyond our roster, and we regularly broker major talent deals on behalf of global brands.

We’re trusted by some of the most respected organisations in sport – from FIFA to Matchroom, The FA and England Rugby – to help shape their strategies, tell better stories and drive deeper fan connections.

And we’ve helped brands like Meta, Just Eat, LG and Visa make the most of their partnerships through channel strategy, content and activation.

With a dedicated, super smart and loyal team, we’ve been recognised by AdWeek, Leaders in Sport and the Sport Industry Group, showing how our ethos is that we are ‘all in’ - fully committed - in everything we do.