Senior Content and Social Media Officer

Application Deadline:

7 September 2025Department:

Marketing and BrandEmployment Type:

Permanent - Full TimeLocation:

LondonReporting To:

Associate Director, Brand and ContentCompensation:

£28,155 / year

Description

Now is an exciting time to join the Brand and Content team as we implement our new content strategy and evolve our brand.

If you have experience in content and social media and want to develop your skills and expertise in a talented and well-respected team, we’d love to hear from you.

You’ll be integral in communicating who we are, what we do and why to different audiences.

This role is about producing and promoting content that gets more people on to our programmes; building awareness of our brand; and helping the education sector to understand the value of high quality, evidence-based professional development. You’ll support others to do the same too.We’re looking for a collaborative and proactive communicator who can work with stakeholders to create brilliant content; deliver a high-quality experience for audiences on our social media channels; and help everyone to use our brand well.

We live our values of ‘keep getting better’ so you’ll be encouraged and empowered to ensure our content, channels and team make the best impact possible.

Who are Ambition Institute?

A great teacher changes the future every day. Especially for children who have had a tough start in life, a teacher can be the critical factor in their success.

At Ambition Institute we help schools tackling educational disadvantage to keep getting better and help their teachers and school leaders to become more expert over time.

That’s how we’ll make sure every child gets a great education and the best possible start in life.

We train

teachers and leaders at all levels to get better at the things that make the biggest difference: what you teach, how you teach it, and how you create the conditions for schools to thrive.We share

what works. Everyone can benefit from evidence of how great teaching and leadership can improve schools and change lives, so we connect people to the latest research and best practice.We champion

every teacher and school leader’s potential to develop, as the driving force for sustainable school improvement.

We would like you to:

Plan, produce and publish compelling, accessible and high-quality video, written and visual content to promote our programmes, brand and influencing messages.Administer our social media accounts day-to-day, and manage boosted and advertised content posts.Monitor and report on content and social media performance, contribute metrics to the wider team reporting, and implement recommendations to improve our content and social media.Lead projects and carry out ad hoc tasks to drive the continual improvement of our brand, content, social media and team operations.Working in a hybrid way, you’ll be attached to either our

Birmingham, London or Manchester

office and will report to Associate Director, Brand and Content. In line with our current ways of working, you’ll be expected to be in the office at least 1 day a month, in addition to team days and this may be reviewed by Ambition.Skills, Knowledge and Experience

To succeed in this role, you''ll be a strong copywriter with the ability to adhere to a tone of voice and style guide. It is essential that you have experience and confidence in the day-to-day social media management of corporate accounts. Experience of video-first content creation and in filming and editing video on a smartphone is highly desirable.

If this has sparked some interest, we welcome an application from you.What’s in it for you….?

Competitive annual salaryProfessional development for all staff25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays and ''winter shut down’ at the end of December/beginning of JanuaryEmployer pension contribution of 11%Agile, hybrid working culture, so you can manage when and where you workStaff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our workBlind recruitment process to ensure equality and fairness in our hiringEnhanced maternity pay after a year’s serviceShared parental leave packageAccess to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support lineComfortable and collaborative workspaces in the city centres of Manchester, Birmingham and LondonWork-from-home technology package to support hybrid workingInterest free season ticket / bike loansWe don’t expect the person we hire to have all of the following, but this should give you a sense of what would enable you to thrive in this role and in our organisation:

You care deeply about educational disadvantage and being part of an organisation that challenges inequalityYou have a good work ethic and strive to make a difference in the job you doYou always give maximum effort to understand and meet the needs of our partners and participantsYou always have a great attitude so we “can do” for all our colleagues, partners and participantsYou are open to feedback and learning because we want to keep getting betterYou work with your initiative to bring new ideas and a fresh perspectiveYou are well organised and can prioritise work that will have the greatest impactYou want a career with a person-centred organisation with a cause at its heart.You have a collaborative work ethos, bring warmth and good humour to work and constructive outlook to every situationYou enjoy working in a fast-moving workplace, with a great support structure around youYou would like to grow with an ambitious organisation as it progresses over timeWant flexibility in how you work – splitting your time between one of our offices and remote working and managing your own working patterns to get the job done.Applications will be accepted for all office locations.

All applications must be received by the closing date 23:59 on 7 September 2025. Interviews are expected to take place w/c 15 September 2025

We recognise that AI function tools (such as. ChatGPT or other generative AI tools) are here to stay and can be helpful for applications including to assist in researching for application responses and to shorten your first draft. However, we are observing a growing trend in the use of AI, and we would caution applicants against relying too heavily on such tools when drafting responses.

The pitfall of such tools is that they produce generic responses that don’t showcase individuality, specific experiences or real-life examples. This usually results in applications being unsuccessful. We want to evaluate your response, and we will be looking for answers that use examples and experiences that are clearly specific to you. You are more likely to successfully demonstrate your soft skills like communication and teamwork when preparing answers to application questions yourself and this helps mitigate the unintended consequences of AI-generated responses.

If we suspect you have used AI inappropriately, the panel reviewing your application may adjust how your response is rated. For more details of what we consider to be acceptable use of AI function tools in our application process, please review our

FAQs

on our careers page.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and the most vulnerable in our society and, as such, we are unable to employ individuals with relevant convictions, including the following: a conviction for an offence involving violence or dishonesty, of a sexual nature or against minors, or for any other offence that is relevant to the nature of the services provided by our organisation.

For any questions or queries please review our

FAQs | Ambition Institute Careers (pinpointhq.com)

in the first instance. If we''ve not addressed your question in this section, please email us at

jobs@ambition.org.uk

As an employer, we have a responsibility to prevent illegal working in the UK by ensuring that our employees have the right to work in the UK. Therefore, as part of the recruitment process to verify your eligibility you will be required to produce relevant documentation.

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