Social Media Manager

Who we are

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy
efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate
emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part
of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and
rewarding.

Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• We offer an outstanding pension scheme including employer contributions of up to 9%, 11% or
  13% (age-linked).
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Private BUPA insurance.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with service-linked increases as well as three
  goodwill days over the Christmas period.
• Staff wellbeing allowance of up to £25 per month / £300 per year.

Please see our careers page
for the full list of benefits we have to offer and why Energy Saving Trust is a great place to
work.

The team

• The marketing communications team successfully delivers an increasing number of programmes
  and campaigns for funders, clients and businesses.
• Our aim is to deliver highly effective campaigns and return on investment with an
  increasingly agile and flexible approach.
• As a team, we want to identify and embrace new ideas, develop processes and ways of working
  that support the team, incorporate greater evaluation of our work, and share our insight.

The role 

• Working closely with the head of content and the wider content team, this role delivers our
  organic social media strategy. The social media manager leads on increasing cross-channel
  awareness and engagement to meet our KPIs with support from our social media executive.

Our current social media manager says:

“This is an exciting and varied role which brings together strategy and creativity. Every
day I get to engage with our consumer and business communities, develop creative content, and
drive real impact for our brand through meaningful social media engagement and growth.” 

What you’ll do 

• Use attention grabbing, creative storytelling to get consumers and businesses to save
  energy and lower their carbon emissions to help the UK reach net zero.
• Work with multiple internal stakeholders to manage the social media forward planner and
  ensure all content is appropriately optimised for our Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram
  and YouTube accounts.
• Work reactively with our press and policy teams to communicate via social our expert
  position on breaking news and government announcements.  

What you’ll bring 

• Demonstrable strong experience of delivering a social media strategy and improving
  awareness and engagement.
• Previous line management experience and delegation in a social media role.
• Superb organisational skills with demonstrable experience of working with multiple internal
  stakeholders to juggle a busy multi-channel social media request process and calendar.

This is a fixed term, 12-month maternity cover, with an expected start date of 18 November 2024
and end date of 14 November 2025. Our standard weekly hours are 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday.
As standard we offer all contracts as blended (home and office-based) working.

For more information, please see job description on our website.

Applications close at midnight on 21 July. Interviews are intended to be held w/c 5 August.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient
applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as
early as possible.

Please click ‘apply online’ via our recruitment portal. We will ask for your personal details,
work history and a supporting statement. Applications submitted without a supporting statement
will not be considered.

In your supporting statement please explain how you meet the essential areas in the job
description. Applications submitted via email or without a supporting statement will not be
considered.

Reasonable adjustments: We are a Disability Confident Committed
employer. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible
for, everyone.

If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the
recruitment process, please get in touch with [email protected] or call reception on
+44 (0)20 7222 0101. We will do our very best to support you. 

Flexible working: We offer a range of flexible working arrangements, including
working from home, compressed or part-time hours, job shares and other arrangements. There is
no need to justify your preferred working pattern and we encourage our people to work in
whichever way helps them to perform at their best.

We will be happy to discuss this and our blended working model at the interview stage with you.

Please note, that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this
post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

Diversity and inclusion

Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace where
everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best.

We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities
and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview
slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the minimum
criteria for a role. Find out
more here.

You can find out more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.