Social Media Specialist

Licensed sponsor Lilywhite House Full-time Posted 3 hours ago

Who We Are

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur is an iconic English football club, playing in the Premier League and Women’s Super League. From North London to the world, our fanbase spans continents, cultures, and generations.

Tottenham Hotspur is a club that’s always dared to push boundaries, breaking new ground, and rewriting history. We are at our brightest when we’re all together.  Our club, our teams, our community. 

We are entering a new era at Tottenham with a new club strategy, new leadership, and a focus on putting our supporters at the heart of everything we do as we continue to strengthen our connection with our home, each other, and the DNA of our club.  A big part of achieving this is through our marketing department, a centre of excellence responsible for our Brand (what we say), our Creative (how we say it), and our Digital strategy (where we say it).    

Job Purpose

This role is to help boost our social team to new levels. We are looking for an all-rounder with the opportunity to take on particular focus on our women’s and stadium accounts, to make sure we deliver to the highest standard across all subjects and platforms, with one consistent tone of voice and pride in our work.

Key Responsibilities

Above all, planning, scheduling and posting across all of the club’s channels
Execute our fan growth and engagement strategy, ensuring we are building and engaging our online communities
Content creation across the Spurs fanbase and community on a daily basis, ensuring what we make aligns with our core content objectives
Analysing and optimising social output to achieve peak performance
Work directly within a team of content producers, content creators and graphic designers to produce industry leading social content
Work flexibly, including evenings and weekends as per the needs of the calendar
React to events on and off the pitch in real-time and offer appropriate input and content across club platforms
Utilise the club’s social platforms so we’re promoting and driving traffic to owned and operated platforms
Managing social media freelancers (junior level), to support our output on matchday
Stay abreast of the latest social trends, platform tools and emerging platforms to help inform THFC’s social strategies

Person Specification

Personal Attributes

A passion for women’s football and music/cultural events and moments is a huge advantage
Forward planning: Thinking ahead, generating innovative ideas
Creative thinker with an organised approach
Values and respects others, building relationships and collaborating
Behaving proactively, and taking responsibility and solving problems where they arise
Challenging our team on how can we be innovative and different
Working well in a team
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly-pressured environment
Building and maintaining trusting relationships with players and senior coaching staff, communicating in an effective and appropriate manner

Skills and Experience

Excellent knowledge of social media platforms, trends and the football landscape
Great knowledge of social media tools (such as but not limited to Sprout Social, Blinkfire, WSC)
Confident to create and deploy efficient workflows using tools such as e.g. Slate, Azzuu, etc and have a knowledge of video and graphics workflows
Excellent attention to detail, spelling, and grammar
Great knowledge of football (and wider sports and culture)

Our Responsibility to you

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. Successful candidates are to be reminded they would be subject to various background, DBS, and reference checks for this role.

We welcome applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, gender, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications or due to business needs, so early applications are encouraged.