Tactical Hiring for Social Media Executive – Sports at Dubai Full Time

Job Summary

We’re looking for someone who is on their A-game with social, can spot upcoming trends, is able to identify sports news on all social platforms and support live events, posting in real-time.Our team is awesome. They inspire awe. We need someone who can harness and exponentially increase this awesomeness.

Your responsibilities will be

Strategy

• Identify and understand how sports fans consume and engage with content to drive traffic and gain engagement. You will take part in the definition of the strategy and execution processes.
• Work with the team to develop creative and engaging content ideas.
• Know how to use and get the best out of social platforms native functions and think outside the box with how native platform features can be used to drive engagement.

Relationships

• Building and developing one-on-one relationships on social beyond answering inquiries and dealing with crisis’ within community management.
• You will be attending events alongside the Sports team liaising with the client, fans and players; so you will need to build strong relationships with clients while taking a real interest in the industry and reporting back social media KPI metrics to improve.

Execution

• Write weekly content calendars for social pages whilst identifying the tone, look and feel of the social accounts.
• Take care of social publishing and community management.
• Report back on KPIs to maximise the impact for the client.
• Develop content concepts and brief the creative teams on these.
• Support live coverage at events; this may be regionally or international.

You have

• Passion to stay on top of sports news, deep research and understanding how sports fans consume content.
• A strong ability to look beyond your favourite sport and get fully immersed in that sport regardless of what it is, whether it’s football, golf or polo!
• A basic understanding of social media metrics to supervise client KPI’s.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, able to deliver outstanding social content that make the nuances of emerging technology digestible to a broad range of demographics within the sporting sector.
• A proactive and self-motivated personality that strives for excellence.