Creative Content Manager

Role: Creative Content Manager

Location: Remote (within UK)

Salary: Within Grade 4 of Uplift’s payscale -From £56,126 to £62,915

Hours: Standard working hours 9.00 - 17.30, with availability to attend external events which may fall outside these hours. Flexible working requests will be considered.

Length of contract: Fixed 12 month contract

Benefits: Annual Professional Development Allowance, Employee Assistance Programme, home office set up allowance, consideration of flexible working requirements and work/workplace adjustments, and organisational focus on employee wellbeing

Starting date: ASAP Closing date: Sunday 22nd November, 11pm

Proposed interviews: w/c Monday 7th December 

About us

Uplift supports efforts to create a rapid and fair transition away from oil and gas production in the UK.

We urgently need to phase out oil and gas drilling to stay within safe climate limits. Yet, despite having renewable resources in abundance, the UK remains Europe’s second largest oil and gas producer.

We can and must be ambitious about moving past oil and gas production, while empowering and supporting workers and communities who rely on the industry for their livelihoods. Working with everyone from policy-makers and Parliamentarians, to academics and campaigners, Uplift undertakes research, analysis and campaigning to support a rapid and fair transition away from oil and gas production in the UK. 

Role summary

As Creative Content Manager, you will work to ensure that the creative content and social media strategies of Uplift’s public campaigns meet the needs of the current political and economic context within the UK and globally, whilst strengthening the movement away from oil and gas. You will work closely with the Head of Campaigns, the Digital Mobilisation Manager and our three Campaign Managers to develop and execute powerful social media and creative communication strategies to support a just transition away from oil and gas in the UK. 

You will be accountable for the creative communication strategies across Uplift’s campaigns: including social and multimedia creative, visual and video storytelling, creative concepts, production standards, commissioning, experimentation and development of creative capability. This role is managed by and works closely with the Head of Campaigns.

Core responsibilities will include:

● Social media and creative content strategy and execution

● Digital team management and staff development

● Digital content infrastructure, capacity and coordination

● General responsibilities and duties

Please see the Job Description below for a full role summary and person specification.

Application

We kindly request that candidates do not use generative AI tools to draft their application responses or cover letters. We are looking to evaluate your unique communication skills and personal experiences. As an organisation we value authenticity rather than perfection and applications that appear heavily AI-generated or use generic responses may affect your chances of being shortlisted. 

To apply for this role, please submit a job application form which will be reviewed by our Careers Team. Please do not send your application via email. 

Accessibility and Anti-Oppression are at the core of Uplift’s values and therefore we strongly encourage applications from candidates whose backgrounds or accessibility/support needs mean they have been traditionally under-represented in the climate and environment sector. Therefore we also encourage candidates to complete our equal opportunities monitoring form. Questions are optional and your answers will be treated confidentially and will in no way affect your application. This form is received separately from your application when we receive it and does not form any part of the shortlisting or interview process. 

Unfortunately, we can only consider candidates who are already eligible to work in the UK.

Strictly no agencies.
 

Job Description:

Role summary

As Creative Content Manager, you will work to ensure that the creative content and social media strategies of Uplift’s public campaigns meet the needs of the current political and economic context within the UK and globally, whilst strengthening the movement away from oil and gas. You will work closely with the Head of Campaigns, the Digital Mobilisation Manager and our three Campaign Managers to develop and execute powerful social media and creative communication strategies to support a just transition away from oil and gas in the UK.

You will be accountable for the creative communication strategies across Uplift’s campaigns: including social and multimedia creative, visual and video storytelling, creative concepts, production standards, commissioning, experimentation and development of creative capability. This role is managed by and works closely with the Head of Campaigns. 

Core responsibilities:

Responsibility Area 1: Social media and creative content strategy and execution

• Lead on the overall development and delivery of our social media and creative content strategies across the organisation, supporting digital staff to develop and execute social media and creative content strategies for each campaign and the organisation as a whole.
• Support staff on each campaign to deliver and refine existing organic social media, paid media, creative content and brand strategies, ensuring content is always optimised against campaign objectives and overall campaign strategies.
• Lead on creative production processes at Uplift to ensure maximum impact and reduce friction, coordinating across the organisation, with freelancers and with campaign partners to ensure consistent high quality and coherence across campaign brands.
• Lead on developing new campaign brand identities and maintain overall campaign coherence to brand guidelines on all online and offline placements, working with outside agencies as needed.
• Lead on bringing in and managing external support on social media and creative content as needed, developing and maintaining a network of creative partners, contractors and influencers engaged in our campaigns and wider work.
• Track political, public and media debates regarding the future of oil and gas and developing responsive social media and creative content strategies.
• Collaborate with Heads of other teams, campaign managers and other staff to achieve cross-team campaign goals.
• Ensure Uplift is at the forefront of exploring and testing new ways to deliver digital content, leading on the development of new digital approaches on creative content and social media strategy and bringing data-informed decision making to how we approach digital campaigns.

Responsibility Area 2: Digital team management and staff development

• Line management of Uplift staff on our social media and creative production teams including providing guidance, oversight and support for work objectives, performance and professional development.
• Co-lead on the ongoing development of Uplift’s Digital team and our digital capacity, working alongside the Head of Campaigns and the Digital Mobilisation Manager to assess and address specific training and development needs.
• Support the Head of Campaigns and the Head of Movement Building with the ongoing development of the Campaign and M