The Humane League UK is seeking a creative and digitally-minded individual with the drive to end the abuse of animals raised for food.

The position:

As Social Media Coordinator, you will live and breathe all things social media, leading all activities across our Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, YouTube, and LinkedIn, as well as keeping an eye out for opportunities elsewhere on social media.

A social media wizard with strong working knowledge of social channels, you’ll implement a digital strategy focused on engaging and converting our community to take action for animals.

This role reports to the Digital Communications Manager.

We will be holding a webinar on Thursday 17th July at 7pm BST for you to find out more about the role and to ask any questions you may have. The webinar will be hosted by Hannah Yates, Head of Communications and Holly Spindler, Digital Communications Manager. If you’re interested, please register here.

A recording of the webinar, with captions, will be available within 48 hours after the end of the event.

Salary:

• Starting Salary of £35,870 or £39,457 for Inner London Weighting.
• For more information about the Social Media Coordinator salary please click here.

 Hours:

This is a full time position of 37.5 hours per week over Monday to Friday.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ownership of our social media channels, posting content regularly that is tailored to each channel and ensuring each channel’s features are used to create the biggest impact for our supporters.
• Planning and building social media campaigns that strategically integrate goals and consider metrics.
• Updating the communications calendar.
• Create inspiring concepts and develop these into compelling, on-brand, platform-specific content using tools like Canva.
• Social media community management including moderating and responding to comments and messages.
• Regularly monitoring social trends to create topical content.
• Using tools such as Google Analytics, Facebook insights, and Sprout Social to report on post performance and monitor and evaluate success, on a monthly basis.
• Design, run, and monitor social media advertising campaigns to grow and mobilise our network.
• Keep up to date with new features and tech related to social media platforms, as well as other organisations’ activity, to ensure the most engaging and effective content.
• Encourage and assist staff members in producing social media content, supporting them with creative and technical guidance and giving feedback.
• Contribute to other communications activities such as website and PR content, as necessary.
• Attend events, protests and actions as necessary.

For full details of the role, including the key competencies we see as the the most important requirements for being successful in this position, please visit our website here.

 Good to know:

You will have access to:

• ​A fully remote work environment and team (all equipment is provided)
• A 4 day working week (note: this is a year long pilot until July 2025 when its continuation will be assessed)
• A pro rata share of 25 days leave plus Public Holidays (reduced proportionately during four day week trial)
• ​Flexible working hours
• ​A workplace pension
• An annual learning and development budget
• Support for mental and physical wellbeing
• £25 per month reimbursement towards home working costs

At The Humane League UK, animal welfare is at the forefront of our everyday work and as such, many of our employees are vegan by personal choice. All of our events and workshops offer only plant-based meals. We welcome all mission-aligned candidates to apply, no matter where you are in your journey to end the abuse of animals raised for food.

We are looking to speak to a wide range of candidates with diverse backgrounds - #NonGraduatesWelcome

Our employees all work remotely but still enjoy a supportive, collaborative environment.

For our salaries to be fair, transparent and equitable we want to provide a system that delivers a competitive salary in the market and could eliminate potential biases in compensation (such as the gender pay gap). For more information about the Social Media Coordinator salary please click here.

 All applicants need to be:

1. ​Fluent in written and spoken English.
2. ​Live and have the right to work in the UK (we are unable to consider applications from those without the right to work in the UK).
3. ​Committed to our mission to end the abuse of animals raised for food.

The Process:

All applicants will be contacted within one week of the closing date to let you know if you have been successful in reaching the next stage.

Our full interview process comprises of the following stages:

• A skills test to give us an opportunity to see your skills in action (completed remotely).
• Join an online interview (via video call) so we can learn more about each other.
• Final Interview (via video call as above)

For full details of our recruitment process please click here.

To apply please click here