Social Media Assistant

Social Media Assistant -

Role: Casual - flexible hours based on team needs and the sporting calendar.

Location: London Bridge (minimum three days a week).

The Team:

talkSPORT is the worlds biggest sports radio station and a globally renowned digital publisher with a social footprint of more than 10M followers.

The team spans several departments including editorial social audience and tech and were looking for a new Social Media Assistant to help manage and deliver the creation of high-quality graphics and the scheduling and delivery of website articles across our social channels.

The Role:

talkSPORT is looking for a Social Media Assistant (Casual) to join our website team.

Youll utilise your creativity to take a proactive lead on creating bespoke high-quality graphics for our various social media channels. These will serve to spark on-platform engagement encouraging audiences to interact with our posts and to drive traffic back to our owned and operated platforms namely .

Working closely with the Social Media Editor and wider editorial team youll support the day-to-day running of our accounts ensuring talkSPORTs website content is promoted quickly accurately and creatively across platforms including Facebook X YouTube and Instagram.

Alongside supporting our main UK-focused social channels youll also play a key role in helping to build and grow talkSPORTs new U.S. sports social accounts therefore knowledge of a variety of sports is essential.

This is a hands-on fast-paced role ideal for someone who lives and breathes sport and wants to kick-start a career in social or digital media.

Day to day you will:

• Create highly engaging graphics for our social channels based on the sporting news cycle to encourage conversation and debate

• Post and schedule stories clips and graphics across multiple social platforms

• Write sharp engaging headlines and captions that help drive views engagement and conversation

• Create and crop visuals using Photoshop Canva or similar tools to support our editorial teams

• React quickly to breaking news trending topics and live sports moments with timely platform-optimised posts

• Help monitor real-time traffic and social engagement to inform whats working

• Work collaboratively with the wider editorial and video teams to ensure content consistency across platforms

What were looking for in the ideal candidate:

• Comfortable using Photoshop and/or possessing general graphic design skills

• Strong knowledge and passion for multiple sports with a particular interest in Football Boxing and NFL

• Experience of creating and scheduling content across various social channels

• Understanding of what content performs well across specific platforms such as Facebook Instagram and X

• Excellent spelling grammar and attention to detail

• Ability to work accurately and efficiently under pressure

• Willingness to work evenings and weekends around key sporting events

• Able to commute into our London Bridge offices at least three times a week