Social Media Assistant - talkSPORT.com

Job Description:

Social Media Assistant - talkSPORT.com
Location:
London
Department
talkSPORT
Salary Range:
Not Specified
Advertising End Date:
28 Dec 2025
**Job Description**
**Social Media Assistant - talkSPORT.com**
**Role:** Casual - flexible hours based on team needs and the sporting calendar.
**Location:** London Bridge (minimum three days a week).
**The Team:**
talkSPORT is the world's biggest sports radio station and a globally renowned digital publisher, with a social footprint of more than 10M followers.
The talkSPORT.com team spans several departments - including editorial, social, audience and tech - and we're looking for a new Social Media Assistant to help manage and deliver the creation of high-quality graphics and the scheduling and delivery of website articles across our social channels.
**The Role:**
talkSPORT is looking for a Social Media Assistant (Casual) to join our website team.
You'll utilise your creativity to take a proactive lead on creating bespoke, high-quality graphics for our various social media channels. These will serve to spark on-platform engagement - encouraging audiences to interact with our posts - and to drive traffic back to our owned and operated platforms, namely talksport.com .
Working closely with the Social Media Editor and wider editorial team, you'll support the day-to-day running of our accounts, ensuring talkSPORT's website content is promoted quickly, accurately, and creatively across platforms including Facebook, X, YouTube and Instagram.
Alongside supporting our main UK-focused social channels, you'll also play a key role in helping to build and grow talkSPORT's new U.S. sports social accounts, therefore knowledge of a variety of sports is essential.
This is a hands-on, fast-paced role ideal for someone who lives and breathes sport and wants to kick-start a career in social or digital media.
**Day to day you will:**
+ Create highly engaging graphics for our social channels, based on the sporting news cycle, to encourage conversation and debate
+ Post and schedule talkSPORT.com stories, clips, and graphics across multiple social platforms
+ Write sharp, engaging headlines and captions that help drive views, engagement and conversation
+ Create and crop visuals using Photoshop, Canva, or similar tools to support our editorial teams
+ React quickly to breaking news, trending topics, and live sports moments with timely, platform-optimised posts
+ Help monitor real-time traffic and social engagement to inform what's working
+ Work collaboratively with the wider editorial and video teams to ensure content consistency across platforms
**What we're looking for in the ideal candidate:**
+ Comfortable using Photoshop and/or possessing general graphic design skills
+ Strong knowledge and passion for multiple sports, with a particular interest in Football, Boxing, and NFL
+ Experience of creating and scheduling content across various social channels
+ Understanding of what content performs well across specific platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and X
+ Excellent spelling, grammar and attention to detail
+ Ability to work accurately and efficiently under pressure
+ Willingness to work evenings and weekends around key sporting events
+ Able to commute into our London Bridge offices at least three times a week
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