Social Media Specialist

Oak Brook, IL (Hybrid)

$67K/yr – $73K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end social media lifecycle from content creation to publishing, community management, and performance optimization while collaborating across teams.

  • Lead day-to-day publishing, content creation, and asset management across platforms
  • Drive campaigns, live coverage, analytics, and continuous improvement with the Social Media team

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Executes day-to-day social media publishing across all organizational platforms, ensuring timely, accurate, and engaging content delivery.
  • Creates compelling social media content, including copywriting, photography, short-form video, graphics, and platform-specific creative assets that support organizational priorities.
  • Captures photo and video content at organizational events and develops social-first content from concept through final published asset.
  • Collaborates with the Social Media Manager to execute integrated social media campaigns, programs, and initiatives.
  • Monitors social media communities by engaging with audiences, responding to comments and messages, and escalating issues as appropriate.
  • Maintains social media operations, including publishing schedules, content calendars, digital asset management, content libraries, and workflow documentation.
  • Organizes, tags, archives, and maintains social media assets to support efficient content retrieval and long-term content management.
  • Supports live social media coverage for conventions and other organizational events.
  • Stays current on platform updates, emerging technologies, audience behaviors, and social media trends, proactively identifying opportunities to improve content performance and audience engagement.
  • Identifies and develops meaningful stories from member interactions, events, existing content, and social media conversations that align with Lions International’s mission and messaging.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Marketing, Communications, Public Relations, Digital Media, or a related field. High school diploma with an equivalent combination of experience will also be considered.
  • Minimum of 3 of professional experience managing social media for a brand, organization, agency, or nonprofit.
  • Demonstrated experience creating engaging content for multiple social media platforms, including copywriting, photography, video production, and short-form video editing.
  • Experience managing social media publishing platforms and community engagement across multiple channels.
  • Experience using social media management tools (e.g., Sprout Social or similar), and editing tools such as Canva, VEED, Adobe Creative Suite, CapCut, Premiere Pro, or comparable creative applications.
  • Experience capturing and producing content during live events is preferred.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and adapt to changing priorities.
  • Demonstrated understanding of social media trends, audience engagement strategies, and platform best practices.

Preferred

  • Experience capturing and producing content during live events is preferred.

Benefits

  • Three weeks paid time off
  • Flexible and hybrid work schedules (2-3 days per week in office).
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
  • Flex spending accounts for medical and dependent care
  • 401K with employer match
  • Reimbursable training
  • Casual dress
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Lions International

Lions meet the needs of our local communities and the world. Over 1.4 million people in 210 countries and geographic areas conduct vision and health screenings, build parks, support eye hospitals, award scholarships, assist youth, provide help in time of disaster and much more.

Founded in 1917
Oak Brook, Illinois, USA
4.8K employees (201 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$67K/yr – $73K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
201 (4% of company)
Median Tenure
5.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
379.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$5.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.8%
Direct
37.3%
Referral
7.4%
Social
1.7%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.8K

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Social Media Specialist

Lions International · Oak Brook, IL · Hybrid