Social Media Specialist - OCM

Auburn, AL (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and coordinate Auburn's flagship social channels across content creation, scheduling, publishing, and performance tracking, collaborating with the OCM team and campus partners to ensure unified messaging and timely engagement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Supports the creation, scheduling and publishing of engaging content across Auburn University's flagship social media accounts, maintains the monthly content calendar and uses an enterprise social media management platform for social media operations.
  • Gathers content, information and assets from OCM team members and maintains awareness of activities across Auburn's colleges, departments and units to help ensure the flagship accounts reflect the breadth of the university.
  • Shares responsibility for monitoring Auburn's flagship social media accounts, including comments, direct messages, mentions and audience engagement, and identifies issues or conversations requiring escalation.
  • Supports the integration and execution of social media content within university-wide marketing and communications initiatives to ensure consistent and strategic messaging.
  • Tracks basic social media metrics (e.g., reach, engagement, follower growth) and contributes to routine performance reports.
  • Stays current on social media trends, platform changes and industry best practices to identify relevant opportunities for Auburn's social media presence.
  • Assists with social media advertising campaigns, including campaign setup, audience targeting, monitoring and performance analysis.

Requirements

  • Level I: - Bachelor's degree - with no specific discipline
  • Level II: - Bachelor's degree - with no specific discipline and 2 years of experience in social media, communications, marketing, online content creation, digital event production, or digital media operations.
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Auburn University

Auburn University is a comprehensive land, space and sea grant research institution blending arts and applied sciences. The university continuously changes to accommodate today's needs, while still respecting the traditions and spirit of Auburn. As we grow and change, Auburn will always continue its tradition of excellence.The main campus had an enrollment during fall of 2017 of 29,776. Auburn University offers degrees in 15 schools and colleges at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels.Auburn University is known not only for its academic excellence, but also for its impact on Alabama as well. A recent study determined Auburn had a nearly $4 billion economic impact on the state of Alabama, including a $1.5 billion impact on the economy and a $2.4 billion impact in "human capital." Auburn's Technical Assistance Center, a collaborative engineering and business outreach unit, performs hundreds of projects annually for state industry, generating millions of dollars in increased efficiencies and saving or creating hundreds of jobs statewide.

Auburn, Alabama, USA
11K employees (543 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$101.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
38.6%
Direct
49.5%
Referral
10.4%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~11.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
393 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
6.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
11

Funding

Total Funding
$25.9M
Last Raise
$50K
Grant, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Grant • $50K
  • Oct 2024
    Grant
  • Jun 2024
    Grant • $893.2K

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