London City Lionesses | Content & Media Manager

We\’re looking for a Content & Media Manager to join our growing team at London City Lionesses.

If you have the aspiration, drive, and qualifications to join our Club, please apply to careers@londoncitylionesses.com with your CV and cover letter by 19th January.

The London City Lionesses are part of the Kynisca group, setting a vision and building an infrastructure in which all the players and staff can thrive.

Owned by Michele Kang, our vision for Kynisca is to:

1. Become the most pre-eminent sports organisation in the world;

2. Have a high-performance culture of winning on and off the pitch;

3. Train women as women; and

4. Motivate and inspire the next generation of girls and women.

Role Purpose:

To lead our media, content, communications and PR activities to tell our story and grow our brand.

This is a new position within the business, so the responsibilities are not set in stone. We need someone who can jump in, get things done and work with the team to shape the future of the club.

Responsibilities:

Content & Social Media

• Lead the development and delivery of the club’s content and social media strategy to build the club’s visibility and fanbase through engaging and differentiated content.
• Lead the ideation, planning and creation of club content inline with strategy
• Guide and assist with the production of our club content – working with agencies and freelancers where appropriate.
• Work closely with the Brand & Marketing manager to define Club TOV and best practice across social media content and editorial.
• Examine the social media landscape to ensure trends are identified and applied to content in an efficient manner
• Adopt a measurement and effectiveness mindset – ensuring our content delivers against club KPIs.
• Be responsible for all website content including publishing.
• Be responsible for the matchday programme.

Media & Communications

• Responsible for the day-to-day narrative and publicising the ongoing story of the LCL, by securing coverage in national, regional and international Media
• Match Day Media Ops – manage match day media operations and activity including accreditations, liaising with journalists and arranging player and coach interviews.
• Manage and coordinate key activity and announcements such as player signings, player appearances, partnerships and sponsorships for 1st team and Academy.

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Critical Experience

• 4 + years experience working in content roles.
• Demonstrated skill at content optimisation on all major social media channels
• Track record of an innovative approach to content – embracing new channels and ideas.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated solutions focused and able to work under pressure with own initiative
• Highly proficient on Adobe Suite
• Experience with mobile content filming and editing software such as CapCut
• Experience using social media analytic tools
• A deep understanding of social media platforms and consumer trends
• Ability to communicate key business messaging in a format which is suitable for social media
• Experience working either for or with social media agencies
• The postholder should be open to travel and working weekends and weeknights (mainly to attend football matches).

Characteristics

• Passionate about women’s football and broader women’s sport culture.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to deal with matrix stakeholders & ambiguity.
• Creative mind – who is well experienced at taking ideas to reality
• High standards of personal integrity and EQ.
• Comfortable and able to work on own initiative, and with a multi functional team
• Has a learning mindset; is keen to continue their self-development and keep up to date with best practice and learning opportunities
• Continually seeks to improve efficiency and performance
• Seeks out and embraces new ways of thinking and working – not afraid to fail.
• Highly organised individual who recognises the importance of structure and planning

How to apply:

If you have the aspiration, drive, and qualifications to join our Club, please apply to careers@londoncitylionesses.com with your CV and cover letter by January 19th

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received.

Interviews will be held at a date to be confirmed and only those invited to interview will receive return notification from London City Lionesses.

Safeguarding Statement:

London City Lionesses and Academy are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to endorse this commitment.

This post requires Enhanced Criminal Records Checks and may include checks against the Barred Lists, as such it is exempt from Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974). Therefore all convictions including spent convictions that have not been subject to filtering by the DBS should be declared.

Equality Statement:

We are an equal opportunities employer.

• The successful candidate must ensure a positive commitment towards equality and diversity by treating others fairly and not committing any form of direct or indirect discrimination, victimisation or harassment of any description and to promote positive working relationships between all internal and external stakeholders.