Social Media Coordinator 

Exciting new role in a fast-growing organisation working with responsible businesses to change capitalism. We’re looking for candidates who can expand our culture and challenge business as usual. We strive to foster an environment where all staff can bring their whole selves to work, by their own definition.

The B Corp Movement

The B Corp community is a global movement of businesses who provide leadership by demonstrating their commitments to people and planet and create examples of success for others to follow. There are now over 4,000 B Corps in over 75 countries and covering 150 sectors, including Patagonia, The Body Shop, Kickstarter, innocent and Ella’s Kitchen.

B Lab 

B Lab was created in 2006 with the mission to inspire and enable people to use business as a force for good. There are B Labs across the globe and B Lab UK is a charity that launched in 2015. Our purpose is to redefine success in business through building a community of engaged businesses, raising awareness of the B Corp movement and championing change in the UK economy. The B Lab UK team is small, friendly, hard-working and committed to changing how business operates.

The purpose of this role

The Social Media Coordinator will be a compelling communicator and storyteller with expertise in social media channels and tools and a passion for using the power of business to transform the world. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in raising awareness about the B Corp movement in the UK. This motivated and passionate individual will create and deploy content across all B Corp UK/B Lab UK social media channels to inspire business as a force for good and raise awareness about stakeholder governance models, while developing new, creative tactics to engage with the wider public audience.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement creative and engaging social media campaigns to support our priority programs, products, topics, events, and partnerships, and capitalise on the innovation opportunities specific to each platform

• Collaborate with the B Lab UK team and key stakeholders within the Global Network to ensure alignment on content themes and priorities 

• Monitor and update the social content calendar to enable advance planning and ensure synergy with top level content themes

• Create and manage a regular reporting structure that enables us to identify clear improvements and optimisations based on data on social media performance, engagement, growth, campaign metrics, etc

• Create social media toolkits to distribute to the B Corp community and other networks and encourage participation in campaigns 

• Design assets, write copy and schedule posts which align with the marketing team’s objectives and content strategy 

• Daily engagement with posts and messages to build meaningful connections on our platforms and inspire our online community to take action 

• Ongoing monitoring of relevant community, partner and news channels, to ensure we are engaging with the key issues of the day

• When required, set up, monitor and optimise paid social campaigns 

Skills & Experience

Essential

• At least 2 years experience working in a social media role - or comparable lived experience plus the core competencies required for the role

• Exceptional written and verbal communications skills 

• Demonstrated success managing multiple social media platforms and an in-depth knowledge of the platform functionality on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter 

• Strong administrative skills with an eye for organisation and prioritisation

• Ability to juggle short deadlines, multiple projects and work with global counterparts 

• Familiarity with these (or comparable) platforms: G Suite, Google Analytics, Sprout Social, Slack and Zoom 

• A strong eye for design and experience with design tools such as Adobe Creative (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) or Canva 

Desirable

• A dedicated interest or previous professional experience working with a purpose-driven organisation, campaign or project

Person specification

• Passionate about the role that business can play in creating the future that benefits all people and the planet.

• Committed to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic start-up environment where work is varied, fast paced, and hugely rewarding

• Good interpersonal skills and a team player

• Self-motivated, proactive and structured worker, happy to work independently

• Eligible to work in the UK (we will not be able to provide visa sponsorship)
  

Reports to: Marketing and Communications Manager

Salary & Benefits:

• £30,000 per annum, pro rata [Full time is 40 hours per week]

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and discretionary office closure over Christmas

• Flexible working options, and 2-3 days working from home

• Pension

• Life Assurance

• Medical/Health cover

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Wellbeing allowance

• Income Protection

• Working in a shared flexible office workspace with other like-minded organisations

• Volunteer days