Social Media Executive - EXTEND

London, UK (On-site)

£35K/yr – £39K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own the social execution for global campaigns, combining hands-on content creation with platform-specific strategy and quality control that meets BBC standards.

  • Global social delivery: Lead paid and organic activity across multiple platforms for StoryWorks campaigns.
  • Asset creation and quality: Produce visuals and copy that meet editorial and advertising rules.
  • Strategy and optimization: Shape innovative social approaches and ensure high quality across formats and channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Supporting social campaigns: Deliver paid and organic activity across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and more for global StoryWorks campaigns.
  • Creating campaign assets: Produce high-quality social visuals and copy that meet BBC and industry advertising standards.
  • Developing social strategy: Ideate and execute innovative approaches to content promotion and platform-specific formats.
  • Ensuring BBC-level quality: Maintain editorial and production excellence across all commercial social outputs.
  • Troubleshooting issues: Resolve reported problems, collaborating with internal teams to ensure smooth delivery.

Requirements

  • Hands-on involvement in paid campaigns, content creation, community management and channel growth.
  • Excellent grammar, strong copywriting and close attention to detail.
  • Ability to work accurately under pressure and to tight deadlines.
  • Confidence managing your own workload and communicating clearly with stakeholders.
  • Comfort using Google Docs and Microsoft Word, with a passion for media and storytelling.

Preferred

  • Understanding of social media performance metrics and optimisation.
  • Basic design or video-editing skills for social content.
  • Awareness of social and advertising standards (e.g. ASA/CAP guidelines).
  • Exposure to branded content, commercial storytelling or partnerships.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with production, editorial and marketing teams.
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BBC Studios

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III.The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena.From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain’s most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we’re the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK’s largest distributor of British content.

Founded in 1995
London, England, GBR
6.3K employees (2,847 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
238.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.9%
Direct
36.6%
Referral
21.1%
Social
5.4%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,735 (28% of company)
Median Tenure
3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

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