About the job

Job summary

We are Britain’s national equality regulator and a United Nations accredited ‘A status’ national human rights institution.

We uphold people’s rights without fear or favour. We use the full force of our legal powers to defend people from unfair or unequal treatment and to challenge breaches of the law. We advise on developing laws and provide guidance, training and support to enable compliance.

We bring people together to create change. We work with employers, governments and a wide range of organisations, to promote understanding of equality and human rights and we support them to make improvements in practice.

Our strategy for 2022-25 gives us a strong platform to show that we will use our powers to protect and promote equality and human rights, and that we have identified the main challenges in society where we can make a difference in our role as a regulator.

Job description

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is looking for an experienced social media manager to join our friendly and trusted press office. This is a new role and an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled, experienced and perceptive social media professional. The ideal candidate will love creating content and copy that brings complex and sensitive topics to life, while positively engaging and growing audiences across our social channels

Our work sits at the heart of some of the most polarising debates facing the UK. This is a role for a creative professional who has the intellectual rigour, sensitivity and attention to detail needed to navigate challenging social media environments.

You will:

• Create high quality content and copy for all EHRC social media accounts (currently Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube) to garner maximum engagement with our audiences.
• Develop, run and evaluate highly creative paid-for campaigns. You will choose the best channels for the assigned objective, reach the right audience and demonstrate value for money.
• Draft appropriate content for each account, according to its individual purpose, objectives and tone of voice.
• Use digital monitoring/listening tools to identify trends relevant to the work of the EHRC. Apply sound judgement to provide trusted analysis, advise on and deliver appropriate responses from social media accounts.
• Use analytical tools to evaluate the performance of our social media channels and posts and show impact. Suggest regular improvements to strategy, tactics, content and copy.
• Accompany spokespeople to visits and engagements to capture and create social media moments.
• Demonstrate best practice on social media for the EHRC as a whole and work across teams to ensure all accounts adhere to the same high standards.
• Support the wider press office by taking part in an out-of-hours duty rota (roughly one week in every five or six) and by contributing to a daily media analysis report.

Person specification

The full list of Knowledge, Skills and Experience required for the role can be found in the Candidate Pack.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £41,766, Equality and Human Rights Commission contributes £11,318 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

If this sounds like the role for you, please review the attached Candidate Pack for more information and submit your application today!

Appointment to the Equality and Human Rights Commission is overseen by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email the Commission’s People Helpdesk in the first instance.

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, you can contact the Civil Service Commission.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

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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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.