Social Media Intern (Paid, 3 days/wk)

London, UK (Hybrid)

£22K/yr – £25K/yrIntern/New GradInternship

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own social content creation and growth across Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, from concept through publication and performance analysis, while collaborating with the marketing team.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Create engaging posts, Reels and short-form video, working from Cotta's existing image and video library or shooting new content yourself if you'd rather, across Instagram, Facebook and YouTube
Track social and cultural trends and translate the relevant ones into content ideas for Cotta
Help grow our follower base and engagement across all three platforms
Edit and design content using whatever tools you're most comfortable with, Canva, Instagram's native editing tools, CapCut, or similar (Canva access provided, but we're not precious about the toolkit)
Support managing community interactions (comments, DMs) and keep our channels feeling responsive and alive
Monitor performance (likes, shares, follower growth, watch time) and feed learnings back into what we post next
Support the wider marketing team with ad hoc content and campaign needs

Requirements

A genuine, demonstrable interest in social media, you understand what makes people stop scrolling and why
Personal experience creating engaging content (your own accounts, a side project, a passion page, whatever it is, show us)
Comfortable using at least one design/editing tool (Canva, CapCut, Instagram's native editors, etc.), we care about the output, not which tool you use
Strong written English and an eye for detail
Based in or able to commute to London
Eager to learn, genuinely curious, happy to ask questions and take feedback on the chin

Preferred

A degree or coursework in marketing, communications, media or a related field (not required)
Basic shooting or video editing experience
Experience with a food, hospitality, D2C or marketplace brand

Benefits

Direct mentorship from Cotta's executive leadership team and exposure to how a startup builds a brand from the ground up
Real ownership of channels with a genuine audience, not busywork
A genuine, front-of-mind path to extend or convert to a permanent role for the right person
Standard part-time employee terms: pro-rated annual leave (approx. 16.8 days/year, roughly 8 days across the 6-month placement) and pension auto-enrolment (subject to standard eligibility criteria), same statutory rights as any other Cotta employee

Cotta

Cotta is an artisanal food marketplace for exceptional flavours, no occasion required.We bring together independent chefs, small-batch artisans and local producers, the kind of makers you'd usually have to seek out for yourself, and we gather them in one place. Everything arrives with real provenance and a name behind it, ordered as easily as anything else you'd have delivered, and without the compromise that usually comes with that convenience.So we're bringing the taste and comfort you'd find from your own personal chef together with the joy of discovering a great local market, and putting both within everyday reach. It all carries the care and standards you'd expect from the best independent shops.For the chefs, artisans and producers we work with, we're here to help them grow on their own terms, with the tools and the audience to do it, and without losing the thing that makes them worth finding in the first place.

London, England, GBR

7 employees (1 in marketing)

cottavita.com