Social Media Specialist

Arlington, VA (On-site)

$74K/yr – $113K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the day-to-day management of AV’s corporate social media channels, including publishing, reposting, sharing, commenting and audience engagement.
  • Exercise independent judgement within established communications guidance to determine when and how AV should engage with relevant content, conversations and breaking developments.
  • Monitor social platforms, media coverage, industry conversations and competitor activity for timely engagement opportunities, emerging narratives and potential reputational issues.
  • Identify and promptly flag issues, posts, narratives or engagements that may require communications leadership review or response.
  • Develop and maintain the social media content calendar in coordination with PR, marketing, executives and business teams.
  • Draft platform-specific content that reflects AV’s voice, business priorities and communications objectives.
  • Amplify company news, earned media, executive engagements, events, demonstrations and thought leadership across appropriate channels.
  • Support real-time and live social coverage at trade shows, demonstrations, media engagements and company events.
  • Support executive social media presence, including drafting, amplification and identification of engagement opportunities.
  • Track channel performance and use analytics to improve content, timing, engagement and audience growth.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in communications, digital media, marketing, journalism or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in social media, digital communications, content development or related communications work.
  • Demonstrated experience managing corporate or organizational social media channels, including publishing, engagement, monitoring and analytics.
  • Strong editorial judgement and ability to independently determine when to publish, engage, amplify, flag or escalate social media activity.
  • Working proficiency with visual content creation tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, CapCut or similar platforms.
  • Experience using social media listening and analytic tools.

Preferred

  • Experience providing real-time social media coverage at events, demonstrations, conferences and media engagements.
  • Experience working with professional photo and video libraries or digital asset-management systems.
  • Familiarity with paid social media campaigns and audience-growth strategies.
  • Familiarity with basic video editing, motion graphics or other social-first-multimedia production.
  • Experience supporting communication rollouts, production launches, and high-visibility announcements.

Benefits

  • Benefits : AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown.  For more information about our company benefit offerings please visit:  http://www.avinc.com/myavbenefits .

AeroVironment

Aerovironment Inc is an information technology and services company based out of 1088 Bishop St, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

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