Senior Social Media Manager - fixed term contract

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Social Media Manager to join our Media Relations and External Affairs team on a 12-month fixed-term contract commencing in January 2027. This is an exciting opportunity to lead AHDB's strategic approach to social media, ensuring our channels, campaigns and content support organisational objectives, sector priorities and wider communications activity. The role is based on a hybrid working arrangement, with time split between our Coventry headquarters and remote working from home.

In this role, you will act as AHDB's social media expert, providing strategic advice to directors, senior leaders and stakeholders while leading and developing the Social Media team. You will use audience insight, performance data and industry best practice to maximise the impact of our digital communications, helping to strengthen engagement with levy payers, stakeholders and wider audiences. We're looking for an experienced communications professional with significant social media expertise, strong leadership skills and the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.

About AHDBWe are the independent, impartial public body that unlocks success in British agriculture. Funded by a levy from over 100,000 British producers in the beef, lamb, pork, dairy and cereals sectors, we support and champion farmers, growers and processors, often where no one else can or will.

We share the expert, evidence-based research and reports that inform on-farm decision making. We promote British produce to the UK public through domestic marketing campaigns, and we identify and open new global export opportunities to help farm businesses grow.

We help levy payers learn more, sell more and export more to remain sustainable and profitable. Together, we deliver the insights, the influence and the impact that farmers need.

• Lead the development, implementation and continuous improvement of our social media strategy
• Oversee the management of AHDB's social media channels, ensuring activity supports organisational objectives and sector priorities
• Act as our lead expert on social media, providing strategic advice to directors, senior managers and stakeholders
• Lead, manage and develop members of the Social Media team, setting priorities and supporting professional development
• Deliver impactful social media campaigns and projects that drive engagement and measurable outcomes
• Develop reporting frameworks and use audience insight and performance analytics to inform decision making
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, supporting reputation and engagement objectives
• Lead the social media response to emerging issues, misinformation and periods of heightened public interest

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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To apply, simply upload your CV and Cover Letter via our careers portal by clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this page. Our hiring managers will review your application, and we’ll be in touch with the outcome shortly after the closing date.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an initial interview via MS Teams. If successful, a second-stage face-to-face interview will be held at our HQ in Coventry, Warwickshire, following our competency-based framework.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a significant number of suitable applications.

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