Responsibilities

• Monitor assigned stations social handles to ensure adherence to publishing recommendations in terms of copy, cadence, and creative
• Prepare recurring content performance reports, and work with your team to synthesize the data to formulate strategic content plans aimed at growing each station’s audience and increasing engagement
• Create and distribute recurring competitive content reports with the goal of putting our stations at the forefront of digital innovation
• Track social media trends, and actively contribute content recommendations to your team for potential execution by the stations
• Create low-lift content for distribution across all social platforms as needed.
• Post trending content across station social media platforms as needed.
• Troubleshoot any and all issues stations experience within the Sinclair digital ecosystem and with all social platforms.
• Any other duties as assigned pertaining to social/digital content.

Requirements

• 2-3 years of experience in social media strategy and content creation for a media organization or brand (direct newsroom experience highly preferred)
• Experience using editing tools such as (Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, etc.)
• Exceptional knowledge of all aspects of social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok
• Experience creating performance reports using social media analytics platforms (i.e. Sprout/Hootsuite, Google Analytics, etc.), and ability to articulately translate that data into actionable plans
• Must have a highly curious mind, possess the ability to spot trends in social media, and the skills to create engaging digital content
• Must be highly motivated, extremely organized, and come to the position with a digital-first mindset
• Must be comfortable with ambiguity and change that may come about as our team evolves over time
• Late-night, early-morning, weekend, and holiday work may occur depending on the news cycle
• Flexible hours, including on-call responsibilities.

Benefits

• Full time positions are eligible for benefits that include participation in a retirement plan, quarterly and annual incentive plan bonuses, life and disability insurance, health, dental and vision plans, flexible spending accounts,15 paid vacation days, 2 paid personal days, 9 paid holidays, 40 hours of paid sick leave, parental leave, and employee stock purchase plan.