Communications Specialist/ Social Media Manager

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Communications Specialist 4

Location: Remote

Duration – 8+ months. (possible to extension up to 18 months)

Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

1. Minimum 6+ years experience with Education marketing

2. Minimum 6+ years experience with Analytical ability – can drive insight to action.

3. Minimum 6+ years experience with Experience in a social media role.

The ideal resume would contain data driven mentality; go-getter/ self-starter & has a gaming background.

Job Description

  • We are seeking a full-time Social Media Manager (Communications Specialist 4) for Education. In this role, you will help manage and grow our Education owned social media channels, create social strategy and campaigns, and engage with players on social media platforms.
  • We are looking for a social media manager with a passion for education to join us in our mission to empower teachers and students.
  • In the role of Social Media Manager, you will report to the Head of Social Media. Your primary responsibility is to lead content creation, manage the content calendars (including scheduling and posting content), draft copy, monitoring and engaging with followers, and reporting on social metrics and insights. You’ll work closely with our Education business, marketing, community, product teams, as well as with our global community of educators.
  • We are seeking an energetic, creative self-starter with superb communication skills, and passion for education and technology. Other competencies include a familiarity with K-12 education, understanding of current social media trends, and ability to skillfully drive community growth and engagement.

Required skills:

  • 6+ years of experience in social media strategy planning, goal setting, and implementation
  • Experience managing high volume social media channels for well-known brand or product
  • Experience working in gaming sector preferred
  • Passion for education/social impact
  • Understanding of community engagement and audience strategy
  • Familiarity using data to adjust and optimize strategy and activations for community-facing channels, and report and communicate channel performance results.
  • Excellent collaboration, copywriting, and communication skills. English language.
  • Competent with Office 365 and analytics tools (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Sprinklr, Sprout Social and native social media analytics experience preferred)
  • Knowledge of Gaming preferred