Social Media Coordinator (Part-Time)

Location: South Surrey West Coast Gardens
Hours: 8:30am5:00pm 3040 hours per week

Pay: $2224/hr depending on experience.

West Coast Gardens is looking for a part-time Social Media Coordinator to bring our garden centres story to life online. This role isnt about big-picture strategy we already have photography design and branding covered. We need someone creative and reliable who can keep our Instagram and Facebook fresh fun and consistent.

What Youll Do

• Post content across Instagram and Facebook (stories reels photos) on a consistent schedule. This will include sales new & seasonal product educational posts fun/creative content and inspirational posts. Also includes some on-site event work during a weekend each month (some exceptions).

• Write captions that are friendly engaging and on-brand. Able to ask staff or research info about plant care/gardening for products. Use our blog as reference/inspiration for educational posts.

• Film quality videos of product plants and staff (can bear in mind lighting location sound story background etc) and also do light editing of video content such as quick how-to clips seasonal highlights in-store moments and occasional live-videos during events.

• Capture new products in professional looking photos. (A lightbox/photobooth can be set up - bonus if you are able to assist in this!)

• Engage with our audience in a friendly and professional manner through comments DMs and shares (in a human voice). Able to ask staff or research answers for gardening/plant care questions. This also includes reposting appropriate stories from influencers/customers/businesses that tag us.

• Keep posts aligned with brand standards (with support from our design team) always with professional quality and a fun/creative vibe.

• Use Canva to create stories including slides with text/graphics or other elements to keep our stories engaging and fresh! Also be able to use Canva templates weve set up for weekly repeating content such as sales.

• Searching and downloading photos/videos from our extensive archive from previous years (using Filecamp). Able to upload your photos/videos into correct folders)

What You Bring

• Expert at Instagram and Facebook posting scheduling (through Meta) and viewer interactions. This includes photos reels videos & stories.

• Creative eye for photos and short videos. Fabulous at using a phone-camera (or maybe you have your own preference) and make it look amazing.

• Strong writing skills and a playful approachable tone that still sounds professional and human.

• Organized and consistent you can keep a schedule.

• Team player! You can work with staff around the store as well as our design/marketing team and an occasional influencer to create social media that reflects our current goals and themes. Able to pitch ideas to team and work collaboratively. Able to respond to suggestions and pivot based on what is working.

• Experience managing a social media account across platforms is . We prefer retail or lifestyle but are open to other genre experience.