Inspired Schools

Head of Social and Digital Engagement (12 month FTC)

London, UK (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expContract

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Owns the global social and content strategy for 125+ schools, leads a 10-person team of Digital Executives, and partners with school leadership to drive paid and organic campaigns, content governance, and cross-market initiatives.

  • Lead social content centre of excellence and strategic framework across markets
  • Align social activity with school, regional, and commercial priorities using data-driven KPIs
  • Scale with AI tools and innovative content solutions to improve reach and ROI

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and develop a centre of excellence for social media and content across 125+ schools, ensuring robust, progressive and effective social activity across all markets
  • Understand the needs of individual schools and markets, developing social strategies, frameworks and content that align with local priorities and business objectives
  • Lead and develop a team of 10 Digital Executives, ensuring the content strategy is aligned with business objectives and local market requirements
  • Work closely with school leadership teams, CEOs and marketing teams to ensure social and content activity supports school, regional and commercial priorities
  • Lead paid and organic social campaign management, optimising activity to maximise awareness, engagement and return on investment
  • Monitor industry developments, emerging social products and digital trends to identify new opportunities, revenue streams and efficiencies for the business
  • Identify opportunities to improve the global social strategy, including addressing gaps, maximising existing resources and driving incremental awareness
  • Support content marketing across social media and content discovery platforms, advising on KPIs, content strategy and best practice
  • Share regular social and content best practice, insights and updates across marketing teams to build capability and consistency
  • Report on key performance indicators, including brand awareness, ROI, engagement and retention, using data to inform strategy and decision-making

Requirements

  • Proven experience leading and motivating a large, distributed team
  • Team player and collaborative
  • Analytical and data-driven thinker
  • Strong time-management skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
  • Ability to work in and foster a positive team environment
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Creativity, flexibility and adaptability
  • Confident problem solver
  • Professional demeanour
  • Self-motivated attitude to problem solving

Salaries

Social Media median pay in the United Kingdom

£37K/yr

Most pay falls between £31K and £44K. Based on 292 salaries.

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Head of Social and Digital Engagement (12 month FTC)

Inspired Schools · London, UK · Unknown