Proteus Digital

Social Media Apprentice

Cardiff, UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableIntern/New GradInternship

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and help drive client content across multiple platforms while learning the agency side of social media, from creation and scheduling to reporting and trend analysis.

  • Own content creation and campaign coordination across Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn
  • Learn reporting, trend research, and client management workstreams
  • Progress toward a Social Media Executive role through apprenticeship and hands-on projects

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Helping write captions for client content across Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn
  • Creating carousels, graphics and static posts in Canva
  • Scheduling and posting content across Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn
  • Helping pull together monthly performance reports
  • Researching trends, hooks and formats, and what’s performing and why
  • Keeping up with platform and algorithm changes across Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn
  • Working closely with our Account Manager to keep every client on track
  • Completing your apprenticeship qualification alongside the role

Requirements

  • Based in Cardiff, with a genuine desire to work from our office at The Maltings
  • A real passion for social media. You use it, you think about it and you’ve got opinions on it
  • Good writing skills, and an eye for what makes a post stand out
  • Curious, keen to learn and not afraid to ask questions
  • Organised and reliable. When you say you’ll do something, you do it

Preferred

  • Some experience with Canva
  • Running your own account, or one for a club, a society or a side project

Benefits

  • Earn a recognised, fully funded apprenticeship qualification while you work
  • Have a clear and realistic path to a Social Media Executive role once you’ve qualified
  • Get a pay review at the end of your 3-month probation
  • Be mentored directly by the founder and our Account Manager, with real investment in your growth as a creative and a strategist
  • Work on a wide variety of brands, from health clinics, property and trades to coaches and tech companies, across the UK, the US, Australia and Europe
  • Gain hands-on experience in paid social and attribution, seeing exactly how content turns into enquiries for our clients
  • Get access to premium AI tools, including Claude, and the freedom to experiment with them
  • Get 28 days’ holiday including bank holidays, plus your birthday off every year
  • Join our workplace pension scheme
  • Have the opportunity and support to grow your personal brand alongside the role

Salaries

Social Media median pay in the United Kingdom

£37K/yr

Most pay falls between £31K and £44K. Based on 304 salaries.

Social Media Apprentice

Proteus Digital · Cardiff, UK · On-site