COM230 - Social Media Coordinator

Location: The Spine, Liverpool (Hybrid)

Salary: Grade 4, £27,000 - £31,000 (appointment made depending on skills and experience)

Contract type: Permanent

Working hours: Full time (35 hours a week). Standard working hours between 9am – 5pm, Monday to Friday. Hybrid working, with a minimum of 2 days a week in the office.

We’re looking for someone to help develop our social media presence, using it to promote the RCP and engage with our members and the wider health community. You will have devised and delivered strategies for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. You'll need a keen eye for what’s working and for new trends and ideas. You’ll need a keen ear for social listening to keep us in touch with the issues that matter to our members and opportunities for the RCP to influence healthcare on their behalf. This is a great role for anyone passionate about social media as part of coordinated communications campaigns and ready to work with others to achieve great results.

Key Responsibilities

• RCP-wide day to day management and monitoring of social media channels
• Planning and creating posts for campaigns and key dates
• Writing design briefs for RCP’s design team to create social media graphics
• Supporting others, including officers and senior staff, to use social media effectively to amplify the RCP’s messages
• Supporting the Media Manager, including producing daily and weekly media roundups

About You

• Previous professional experience of developing and managing social media channels
• Able to write quickly and accurately under pressure
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Creative and always full of ideas
• Flexible, proactive and collaborative approach to work

About the Royal College of Physicians

We are a patient-centred, clinically led organisation with a core mission to improve patient care and reduce illness. As the leading body for physicians, with 40,000 members in the UK and internationally, we aim to lead debate and influence the way in which healthcare is designed and delivered, promoting good health and leading the prevention of ill-health.

Benefits include 27 days of annual leave (pro rata), 7% employer pension contribution, season ticket loan (access to this loan is after probation) and much more.

For more information about either role and our benefits, please view the job description and person specification. Apply online.

Closing date: 25 January

Interviews: week commencing 6 February

The RCP positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.

The RCP is all about our people – our members, our staff, our volunteers and leaders. We educate, influence and collaborate to improve health and healthcare for everyone and know we can only do this by being inclusive, encouraging and celebrating diverse perspectives. That’s why welcoming and having people who represent the 21st-century medical workforce and the diverse population of patients we serve is so important to us.