Full Time, Fixed term Maternity Cover for 14 Months

We're looking for a strategic thinking Social Media manager to help us tell the British Library story across our social media channels to a global audience in the millions. We need someone who loves to engage, excite and plan social media content and campaigns. Someone who understands different audience needs and who loves to come up with creative ideas that work within social media culture. We need someone who knows their Tik Tok from their Insta Stories, their threads from their GIFs and can craft socially engaging, smart and relevant posts across our social media channels.

Working within the Digital Engagement team, this role will cement new processes, devise creative and execute social media content every day.

The ideal candidate will have knowledge of all social media platforms and trends but especially know how Twitter, Facebook and Instagram work both to publish and the cultures on each of these platforms.

This is a great opportunity to help deliver against our social media strategy using incredible collection items and exhibitions. We need someone who can hit the ground running and keep momentum going during a busy campaign period.

This is a 14 month fixed term contract as a maternity cover.

As one of the world's great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation's intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world's largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.

In return we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits. Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 20.6% (this may be higher dependant on grade. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

Closing date: 26 May 2020
Interview date: 4 June 2020