In Area Finding Specialist 1 | United Kingdom | Part Time | Temporary

This position is central to the missionaries' role to 'Invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end.' This role has the responsibility to increase convert baptisms using local social media, predominantly Facebook, through both organic and paid activities. This role is an individual contributor doing career-level, professional work. Reports to a Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Set up successful paid social media (Facebook) ad campaigns for all the missions in an Area.
• Optimize the effectiveness of these ads by creating an audience that targets people within areas of strength that agree to meet with missionaries to learn more about the Church.
• Localize static ads and work with social media leaders and content creators within missions to develop high intent ads that are localized to a community.
• Help missionaries create “selfie video” and other localized video content that will resonate with locals, which is measured by the number of leads, the cost per lead and the key indicator outcomes that result from these ads.
• Work with the Finding Support Center (FSC) ad specialists to adapt strategies from other successful ads.
• May assist in editing videos.
• Train social media leaders and referral secretaries on their responsibilities, including best practices for first contact training, following up with missionaries for media referrals, mission/zone pages, message ads and personal profile finding.
• Review data on ad performance for each mission frequently and identify opportunities to improve.
• Work with Area Mission Specialists (AMS) with their needs for information, training and solutions for local social media issues for Areas or missions.
• Coordinate with AMS on outcomes and needs of missions.
• Work with Worldwide Finding team to share and learn about best practices, review outcomes, share and report on goals, conduct pilots and coordinate other efforts.

Qualifications:

• 2 years of any combination of related experience or progress towards or completion of a university (post-secondary) degree or an industry-recognized certification.
• Extensive experience in Meta Ads Manager and Business Suite.
• Successful experience utilizing Facebook Pages and Personal Profile for finding leads.
• Expertise in product, technology, service, strategy, and business complexities.
• Must have exceptional professional skills and experience with a proven track record of completing complex projects requiring multilateral support and coordination, oftentimes in different languages and cultures.
• Experience managing multiple tasks.
• Fluency in at least one other language, preferably Portuguese, in addition to English.
• Experience in making data-driven decisions where multiple stakeholders are involved.
• Demonstrate a bias toward action and results and performs work with a high degree of latitude.
• Highly skilled in the use of standard desktop software such as MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Developed communication and diplomacy skills used to persuade, influence and collaborate with others, including colleagues in other areas/departments and external customers/agencies.
• Demonstrate ability to work as a team with people from different backgrounds.
• To successfully perform the essential functions of the job there may be physical requirements which need to be met such as sitting for long periods of time and using computer monitors/equipment.