Splendid Communications is looking for a Social Media Intern to join the “Splendid Futures” programme. This six-month internship will give you an opportunity to work on some of the world’s most iconic brands as well as getting hands-on experience with our creative and passionate team.
What you’ll be doing
You'll engage in a structured induction process to ensure you’re exposed to every aspect of the role. These are some of the things you’ll get stuck into:
As a member of our digital and social media team, you will play an important role in helping to develop strategies and content that engage our clients' target audiences and elevate their brand presence online. You’ll collaborate with the team to deliver witty, social-first copy at speed and position brands in social conversation through relevant and easy to understand visuals. This is a role that will have you the sharing ideas and inspiration with clients and agency teams from the start.
- Collaborate with the social media and creative teams to brainstorm and develop content ideas and ‘always on’ strategies based on trending topics and insights
- Stay up-to-date with industry news, social media platform updates, and digital marketing trends to inform content creation and strategy decisions
- Assist in the creation of compelling social media content, including copywriting, visual assets, and multimedia elements.
- Manage the sharing of reactive and planned reactive social media content on brand channels.
- Track and measure the performance of social media campaigns and content
- Build knowledge of social influencers and content creator communities and build and maintain lists across different social channels of relevant potential partners for brand work. Occasionally support with creative mailer send outs
- Daily digesting of a broad range of online/social content and trends so you learn to recognise opportunities for clients and build your knowledge and contacts
- Drafting copy for social content
- Picking up the phone and selling stories and content ideas for your clients to influencers
- Logging media coverage, image rights and where relevant, social analytics and helping your team to report back on results
- Organising and helping to deliver influencer mailers including going out to shops in London to buy samples, managing sample deliveries and liaising with couriers
- Assisting with events, including researching of costs and logistics where needed
- Taking part in brainstorming and learning how to generate creative ideas for the agency and clients
- Presenting your thoughts and ideas to your team (including at Splendid Loves, an informal ideas sharing session)
- Working with your mentor and career development manager to regularly review your progress and learning, ensuring you get the best out of your Splendid experience
What we need from you
- Strong interest in pursuing a career in Social Media and a good understanding of what this involves
- The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for identifying and uncovering social media trends
- You’ll be a regular user of SnapChat and TikTok as well as Meta platforms, and know be familiar with channels like Reddit and Discord
- Genuine passion for food, drink and other lifestyle/cultural areas like music, art, publishing and entertainment
- Passion for reading a range of social and digital news updates and following content from lifestyle influencers
- Understanding and enthusiasm for how the most popular social media channels work, with some knowledge of how brands use them
- Strong skills in written and spoken English communication
- Good attention to detail and a commitment to producing high quality work
- Able to take responsibility for actions and meeting deadlines with a can-do attitude
- Strong team skills, passion and ambition to work together to deliver great work
This role is open to those with and without previous experience in social media and content creation (experience is useful but not essential).
The role will be based in our Splendid office in East London, so applicants will need to be able to attend the workplace throughout the week (although there may be an option for one day per week to be worked from home ).
Many of our interns have been successful in securing a permanent role with Splendid after the initial internship period. For this reason, please only apply if you’ve finished studying or are not committed to another job and can consider a potential role directly after the internship.
Perks
- Salary is equivalent to £25,650 per annum
- Take time out with a pro-rata allocation of 25 annual days holiday and early Friday finishes (4:30pm)
- Enjoy a birthday day off
- Benefit from a training plan dedicated to your development as an intern
- Look after your health with access to WeCare, a 24/7 online GP, mental health support service, get fit programme and more
- Access to tailored wellbeing support
- Mingle with the team at our monthly all-agency socials and our fortnightly office catered lunch
- Yummy snacks and drinks for those that get peckish during the day
We are keen to meet candidates from all backgrounds so please get in touch if your skills and experience are a fit.
To support our commitment to recruiting from diverse backgrounds, please do not include any personal information or qualifications in your cover letter.
We have a blind recruitment process, and applicants are shortlisted on their answers to the application questions only, so there is no requirement to send us a cv.
If we can help you by making any adjustments to our application process, email us at peopleteam@splendidcomms.com (please note this email is for adjustments only, we’ll only accept applications submitted through our website).
Applications close 21st August 2024 and face to face interviews will take place mid-September.