Community Manager

UK (Hybrid)

£30K/yr – £40K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and grow the outdoors community and content engine with a focus on social channels, storytelling, and both B2C engagement and B2B credibility.

  • Own and build the community and social channels, shaping a consistent, inspiring presence.
  • Drive the B2C journey from first visit to sign up and booking using audience insights.
  • Deliver compelling participant stories and partner content to strengthen advertiser propositions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and build the community
  • Own our social media channels — Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and beyond — with a consistent, inspiring presence.
  • Respond to, celebrate and amplify community activity — sign ups, finish lines, fundraising targets, challenges, club spotlights, personal bests.
  • Create and manage an email newsletter that keeps our audience informed, motivated and connected.
  • Tell great stories
  • Seek out and produce compelling participant stories — written, visual and video — that bring the platform to life.
  • Commission and edit content from the wider outdoor community.
  • Write short-form content such as event guides, destination guides and activity inspiration to help motivate people to get involved.
  • Drive B2C revenue growth
  • Work with the wider team to optimise the B2C journey from first visit to shortlist to maximise sign-ups and bookings.

Requirements

  • A genuine passion for getting active outdoors and for active lifestyles — you live it yourself.
  • Proven experience in community management, content creation or social media — ideally in sport, fitness, outdoor or lifestyle.
  • A strong, versatile writer who can adapt tone and style across formats, including short-form social, long-form editorial and email newsletters.
  • Confident across social media platforms and email marketing tools.
  • Proactive and takes ownership — you spot what needs doing and get on with it, rather than waiting to be told.
  • Commercially aware — you understand that engagement should ultimately help the business grow.
  • Comfortable in a growing business where priorities shift, and you genuinely enjoy working closely within a small team.
  • Organised, self-motivated and comfortable managing your own workload across office and remote days.
  • Data-aware — you understand what the numbers are telling you and use them to improve.
  • Experience with working with events or outdoor brands is a plus.

Preferred

  • Experience with SEO or content strategy.
  • Basic video or photography skills — enough to produce authentic, on-the-ground content.
  • Familiarity with CRM or email platforms such as Mailchimp, HubSpot or similar.
  • Experience working with or within events, charity challenges or outdoor brands.
  • Experience with live or social video content creation.

Benefits

  • £30,000-£40,000 starting salary depending on experience
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays
  • No bank holiday or weekend working
  • Subsidised entry fees for events on the platform
  • Monthly team lunches and quarterly away days
  • A collaborative, values-driven team that's genuinely passionate about what we do
  • How we work
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TimeOutdoors

TimeOutdoors is the community for outdoorsy people who want to be active and feel great. The website brings together:💪 more runs, rides, swims, walks, triathlons, challenges and outdoor activities than any other site in the UK💪 our own social platform designed specifically for outdoorsy people💪 no-nonsense health and well-being advice (coming soon).As a community we help each other achieve our goals and inspire others to take on their own goals.We've recently launched the One Million Challenge, our community challenge to spend one million hours active outdoors. It's free to sign up and people can clock up hours however they like using a fitness tracker - join in on the website!

Founded in 2000
Brearton, England, GBR
7 employees (3 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
192.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
73.7%
Direct
19.5%
Referral
2.9%
Social
1.5%
Paid
0.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (43% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1