Social Media Executive, Time Out Saudi ITP Media Group

Key responsibilities

• Create and distribute daily and hourly content produced by the Time Out team across brand social media accounts.
• Ensure daily content targets and goals are met, and content is posted at newsroom speed.
• Identify the best platform for a particular piece of content, deliver it creatively and to a high editorial standard, across media including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and WhatsApp.
• Alongside the Editor in Chief, plan, keep and execute a social media calendar in line with the overall editorial strategy and calendar.
• Work with the Time Out editorial team to ensure our social media strategy informs and contributes to the overall editorial content strategy and calendar.
• Work with the Editor in Chief to ensure ALL content reflects overall content / editorial strategy.
• Devise a social media strategy that reaches, engages, informs and entertains a large audience, within the Time Out voice and brand guidelines.
• Have your eyes on the next big thing whether social media platform or trend on an existing platform, and quickly identify how Time Out can activate.

u>Personal attributes and essential skills

• A u>doer/u>.
• Positive attitude.
• Superb organisational and communication skills.
• Excellent grasp of digital marketing and best practice.
• Robust experience across a wide range of social media platforms.
• Confidence going out and about, shooting video on smartphones to create killer social content.
• Social media reporting experience.
• Ability to self-supervise and meet deadlines.
• Education: Must be educated to degree level or equivalent industry qualification.
• Languages: Fluent in written and spoken English, spoken and written Arabic desirable.