Social Media Producer – podcasts and video
A full time position at The New Statesman, London, UK
The New Statesman is looking for a talented, enthusiastic and efficient social media producer to help grow our podcasts and video audiences.
This is a dynamic and varied role for someone who is passionate about current affairs, brimming with ideas, and excited to help shape industry-leading audio-visual content. Working across our political and cultural podcasts and videos, you’ll play a key role in supporting the growth of our shows through social media promotion, marketing and platform-optimised distribution.
Main responsibilities
You will be responsible for growing our podcast and video audience by making and publishing creative social media assets, video trailers, and adverts - as well as editorial social-first video.
You will take a proactive approach to marketing our podcast and video content using owned, earned, paid and bartered opportunities, including activating collaborations and promo swaps, writing and sending press releases and communicating across our teams to ensure cross-promotion on all our platforms.
You’ll help to manage the publishing of podcast and video content on YouTube, social and podcast platforms, optimising for maximum reach and engagement using platform-specific best practices.
In addition, you will assist in the planning and production of podcasts and videos - including editing videos for YouTube. You’ll support the audiovisual team to deliver high-quality content that serve a politically engaged and curious audience.
Skills & Experience
You are a creative designer, able to turn high quality and well-designed assets around quickly.
You have experience in live action video, motion graphics and graphic design.
You’ve grown video and podcast audiences on multiple different social media platforms. You understand the algorithms and idiosyncrasies of each platform - especially YouTube - and you know how to produce content that will maximise audience reach and engagement.
You’re familiar with the challenges of growing a podcast listenership and have evidence that you know how to overcome them.
You have training or experience as a journalist and demonstrate excellent editorial judgement, with a strong interest in UK politics and current affairs and a keen awareness of the news agenda.
Other specific skills and attributes required:
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Experience writing scripts, briefs, outreach/marketing materials and digital copy
- Skilled user of Adobe Creative Cloud, especially Audition, Premiere and Photoshop
- Experience recording, editing and publishing audio
- Strong understanding of the podcast industry and ecosystem
- Good understanding of the New Statesman’s output and place in the political and media landscape
- Working knowledge of UK media law
Additional information
This role requires minimum of four days per week in our London office, plus flexibility to work outside of regular hours from time to time to meet the demands of a busy news agenda.
To apply
Send us your CV with a recent example of your video or social media work. This should demonstrate that you have experience producing the type of content required in the role. A separate covering letter is not required - just tell us in the body of your email why you think you are a good fit for this role.
Email rob.lemare@newstatesman.co.uk to apply.
Please mention podnews.net in your application.
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