Location: St Mary's Stadium, Southampton
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Up to £32,000 per annum
Criminal Record Check: Enhanced with Child’s Barred List
Saints Foundation is the charity of Southampton Football Club. We support people in need throughout Southampton, providing life-changing opportunities to help our communities thrive.
What is the role?
We're looking for a creative, passionate and proactive Social Media Executive to bring our work to life through engaging digital content and storytelling. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop our social media presence, creating content that inspires audiences, showcases the impact of our work and helps grow awareness and support for Saints Foundation.
Based at St Mary's Stadium, you'll spend much of your time out in local communities, capturing powerful stories, photography and video content from our projects, participants, staff, players, ambassadors and supporters.
What will you be doing?
You'll lead the day-to-day management of Saints Foundation's social media channels, creating and delivering engaging content across a range of platforms. Working closely with colleagues across the organisation, you'll visit projects, events and campaigns to capture high-quality photography, video and written content that showcases the difference our work makes. You'll use audience insights, platform analytics and performance data to continuously improve content, grow engagement and maximise reach.
The role will involve building strong relationships with delivery teams to uncover and share impactful stories, working alongside fundraising and marketing colleagues to support campaigns and appeals, and identifying creative opportunities to engage new and existing audiences. You'll also support Foundation events and matchday activity, while helping maximise opportunities to feature Southampton FC players, ambassadors and staff in our content.
Is this you?
We're looking for someone who is:
Creative, enthusiastic and passionate about storytelling and content creation.
Experienced in managing social media channels for an organisation, charity, brand or sports organisation.
Skilled in creating engaging content across platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and TikTok.
Confident capturing and producing high quality photo and video content.
Able to use analytics and performance data to evaluate content and improve results.
Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
A strong communicator who can build positive relationships with colleagues, participants and stakeholders.
How this benefits you…
If you are successful, you can look forward to a healthy benefits package;
Access to 2 free match tickets for every home league game
Access to our staff Health & Wellbeing initiatives (Mental & Physical Health).
Discounted Southampton Football Club merchandise.
25 days’ holiday per year excluding bank holidays plus your birthday off each year.
Contributory Pension Scheme.
Worldwide Travel Insurance for you and your family.
Learning & Development opportunities - supporting you to develop your potential and achieve in your career.
Free onsite parking.
Cycle to Work Scheme.
Collaborative & inclusive working culture.
Southampton Football Club is part of St. Mary’s Football Group, which also includes the affiliated registered charity – the Saints Foundation.
We as a Group compete with a culture which promotes respect, unity, aspiration, innovation and discipline – this is The Southampton Way.
We look for people with integrity, compassion and support for those around them; people who take pride in what they do with an honest approach, who embrace a challenge while also being accountable for their decisions; people who have the energy and passion to bring an innovative approach to their role and strive to be different from the rest; people with the aspiration to lead the way and become an example to others.
Within the walls of St. Mary’s Stadium, Staplewood Campus and our other sites and development centres across the South of England, you’ll be given the platform to work in a vibrant, intelligent and challenging environment with the potential to develop and become the best at what you do.
We don’t stand still, we are constantly moving forward.
Be part of it…