Social Media Manager

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Full-time / Fixed-term December 2025 - December 2026
DEPARTMENT: BBC HR
LOCATION: London - Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £50,000 - £59,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We're looking for a strategic, experienced and creative social media leader to be our Social Media Manager - Social Campaigns - BBC Three, responsible for leading the social campaigns for some of the very biggest TV programmes at the BBC, with a strong focus on BBC Three. Line managing a team of four and reporting to the Head of Social, iPlayer and Three, the role will help deliver a coherent, consistent social media experience for UK 16-34s, with a strong focus on 16-24, working closely with the TV Social Production, Edit and Planning teams as well as other promotional, editorial and production teams at the BBC, to ensure each campaign delivers on the agreed social strategy, maximises engaged reach with young audiences, delivers content of the highest creative quality, and drives traffic around the BBC portfolio and reaches youth audiences at scale.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM: If you're a wizard of media production and understand the commissioning process like the back of your hand, then read on. You'll be a leader, an influencer, a champion of new ideas, steering world-leading creative campaigns with confidence and originality. Your experience in both managing teams and anticipating the audience desires across platforms and devices will be your secret weapon, allowing you to translate behaviours into winning social strategies that drive youth-skewing content across the UK and drive journeys to iPlayer.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Oversee a range of social media campaigns, acting as the strategic and editorial lead for those campaigns across all social platforms, working closely with the Publishing, Production, Edit and Planning teams to align strategy
• Publish and edit content in collaboration with Production, Edit and Planning teams to ensure alignment with strategy
• Help lead BBC TV's strategic and creative development in the social space, setting strategy at a campaign level
• Work closely with Commissioning to plan/guide social activity around priority programmes
• Manage team resource and processes to maximise UK under-35 engaged reach at a campaign level
• Ensure social campaigns deliver on quality metrics, relevance and scale
• Work with relevant talent and Content stakeholders to align programme priorities and social activity, reporting to senior stakeholders as required
• Collaborate with the social Publishing, Production and Edit teams to ensure programme, asset and account priorities are aligned

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Experience delivering integrated social media projects alongside broadcast output, ideally in TV or audiovisual media, with a strong innovation component
• A strong track record of working on major TV shows or brands on social media, developing and delivering social media strategies, creating content and managing communities, using analytics to drive decision making at the highest level
• An understanding of media production and commissioning processes
• Leadership and influencing skills to drive forward new initiatives and influence strategic thinking at senior levels
• Ability to understand audience needs and behaviours across platforms/devices/content and translate this into strategic thinking
• Demonstrated ability to manage and nurture stakeholder relationships across production, talent, and internal teams to drive impactful social media campaigns and audience engagement

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Disclosure and Checks

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Information at a Glance

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Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.

• Excellent career and professional development.

• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.

• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

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We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

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Disability confident

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