Description
We are looking for a social media wizard to join our Digital Communications team to grow and engage our online community of over 1.4 million people. In this role, you will be crafting scroll-stopping visuals and captions while monitoring growth and optimising content for our key channels, including TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, and YouTube. You will be instrumental in shaping our social media strategy and promoting key moments like the publication of our impact report and announcement of VIPs attending our annual Summit.
About One Young World
One Young World is a global force dedicated to building a fair and sustainable future.
We develop the world’s most impactful young leaders - from every country, and every sector - to tackle the biggest issues facing humanity. World peace and prosperity depend on our leaders being held accountable, doing more, and doing better for every community and ecosystem on our planet. That’s what our community of 18.5k Ambassadors - or young leaders- work to do across all SDGs.
In 2024/25, we impacted over 8.1 million people and Ambassador-led projects featured in this Impact Report generated $747,305,118 in social value. Together we are activists, humanitarians, world-leaders, business-leaders, thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians and innovators. And we are united by our belief that every challenge has a solution, if we are bold enough to take action, even when the odds feel stacked against us.
Our online channels play a key role in celebrating and promoting our community’s impact at every opportunity. Young leaders receive global recognition, funding and collaboration opportunities and a platform that amplifies their impact.
What will you do?
Day-to-day Responsibilities
● Create and schedule Instagram and TikTok content to grow One Young World’s social presence – developing creative, engaging posts, responding to trends and tracking performance.
● Be an active participant in weekly brainstorming sessions, using the opportunity to pitch content ideas for our social channels. Use your insights to inform the broader social media strategy for our organisation.
● Schedule content on Sprout Social
● Grow and manage our online community by answering questions about opportunities, celebrating wins, social listening, monitoring brand reputation and replying to comments.
● Support the Senior Digital Content Officer in drafting the newsletter and researching material for blogs.
At the One Young World Summit
● Support team by drafting content to post during the Summit.
● Create and post TikTok content to engage our online community and beyond.
● Maintain and update social media tracking tools, including Sprout Social lists (e.g. attendees, VIPs) and spreadsheets of key account handles.
● Support with equipment orders, ensuring all equipment is ordered, maintained and stored correctly.
● Support with Digital Communications admin tasks during the Summit, including: - Uploading session photography to Flickr
- Monitoring social media
- Tagging social content in Sprout
- Support Digital Content Officers with content capture during the Summit
What you’ll need
● 1–2 years of professional experience in social media content creation, or demonstrable excellence through student projects, volunteer work, or informal content creation (e.g. managing a successful personal or community account).
● Excellent storytelling skills, with the ability to write, edit and shape compelling narratives in a social-first format.
● Design and basic video production skills - you’ll need to be confident in CapCut and Canva; ideally, you also have experience with Adobe Illustrator and Premiere Pro.
● Have a great eye for detail, ensuring high-quality content with attention to spelling, grammar, punctuation and brand guidelines.
● A sharp eye for social media trends and algorithm changes, and a natural fluency in Gen Z culture and online behaviour.
● Knowledge and interest in current events, social issues and cultural sensitivities.
● Right to work in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, we cannot offer sponsorship for this role.
Desirable:
● Proficiency with social media scheduling and analytical tools, like Sprout or Brandwatch
● Knowledge of trend tracking tools and techniques to identify relevant content opportunities.
● Experience working with an internal or local charity or social development organisation, or working across different cultures.
● Multi-ligual