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Role Summary 

One in seven babies is born premature or sick and needing care on a neonatal unit – this isn’t what most parents expect for their baby. 

Bliss is the UK’s leading national charity for babies born premature or sick, and we are looking for Social Media Officer to join our enthusiastic and passionate team where you will make a real difference to the lives of families and babies in neonatal care. 

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to help support our Communications team and to learn more about a range of activities and initiatives along the way.

  • Location: Hybrid, with a minimum of 3 days over 2 weeks worked in our London Bridge office
  • Salary: £28,000 FTE    
  • Terms: 30-35 hours a week, permanent.
  • Regular evening/weekend work (remote) at certain points during the year

Role Details

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to gain experience in a range of skills and expertise ranging from social media management, scheduling and monitoring, creating compelling content, as well as monitoring and evaluating impact.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

  • Demonstrable ability to develop a comprehensive social media strategy that includes planning, creating, scheduling and monitoring of impactful campaigns on across social platform that drive engagement with Bliss’ services, fundraising, advocacy and brand. 
  • Ability to collaborate closely with teams across the organisation to conceptualise and create compelling reels, short-form videos and other multimedia content to engage our audiences
  • The experience in running paid social media advertising campaigns to meet specific objectives, as and when required. 
  • Ability to respond to messages and comments on social platforms in a supportive tone of voice always keeping in mind the sensitivities of our audiences and being alert to any messages that might be offensive or triggering or a potential risk to reputation.

 

For more details please view the job description and person specification below.

Job Description

Download the Social Media Officer job description (opens as a PDF).

How to apply

Interested applicants are requested to submit the following documents to [email protected]:

  • Your CV (please ensure this does not include your age, gender or any other personal characteristics)
  • Supporting statement explaining how you meet the criteria in the person specification. This should address the essential points of the person specification and is expected to be no more than 1000-1500 words long

 

This information is used when shortlisting candidates for interview.

Please also submit an Equal Opportunities Form. This will not be used when shortlisting candidates, and is anonymous, but helps us monitor and improve our recruitment practices.

It is Bliss’ policy not to contact applicants who have not been invited for an interview so if you have not heard from us three weeks after the closing deadline, you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful.

Recruitment Timeline 

  • The deadline for applications is 5pm Wednesday 19 February 2025.
  • First round interviews will be held virtually on w/c 3rd March.
  • Second round interviews will be in person at our London Bridge offices on w/c 10th March.