Social / Content Strategist – Football

A fantastic opportunity for an experienced social and content professional to join a major organisation within professional professional, helping shape how it engages and grows its fanbase across digital channels.

You’ll be responsible for bringing fresh thinking to the organisation’s social output, combining creativity, audience insight and platform expertise to produce content that cuts through. Working across sport, culture and entertainment, you’ll have significant scope to introduce new ideas, experiment with formats and showcase the personalities and stories at the heart of the sport.

Day-to-day:

• Develop fresh social-first concepts, formats and campaigns designed to engage existing audiences and reach new fans.
• Take responsibility for the organisation’s social channels, ensuring content remains distinctive, relevant and consistent.
• Shape content plans across the season, turning wider objectives into engaging digital activity.
• Oversee external social agency, setting briefs, providing creative direction and ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Coordinate content capture around key moments in the sporting calendar, including player access, photography, media activity and pre-season.
• Work closely with commercial, marketing, communications and broadcast teams to deliver content across the organisation.

Key Requirements:

• Strong background in social media and digital content, gained either agency-side or in-house.
• Excellent knowledge of the major social platforms and how audiences consume content differently across each.
• A track record of turning strategic objectives into effective content plans and campaigns.
• Naturally creative, with the confidence to challenge established approaches and test new ideas.
• Comfortable managing creative or social agencies and getting the best from external partners.
• Experience managing and developing junior team members.

If you’re interested in pursuing, please apply with your most up-to-date CV and we’ll be in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.