Digital and Social Media Officer

  • Lay
  • Oxford

Church Mission Society

Do you understand digital marketing and enjoy creating compelling social media content? Can you make a video that stops the scroll? Would you like to put these skills to use to help others play their part in God’s mission?

  • Permanent, full-time 35 hours a week (we would consider reduced hours)
  • Hybrid working available with 60 percent home working.
  • Starting salary £31,700 per annum depending on experience, with a generous pension contribution: up to 10 per cent employer contribution on annual salary
  • 36 days of annual leave pro rata (including bank holidays) as well as enhanced paid sickness, maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
  • Generous rewards and wellbeing package, including:
    • access to 24/7 employee assistance programme with qualified counsellors
    • regular wellbeing coffee mornings
    • support on menopause for women
    • up to three volunteer days a year
    • up to three family emergency leave days a year
    • retreats and resources for prayer life

We welcome applications from everyone. We particularly welcome applications from individuals from minority groups as they are currently underrepresented within our organisation at this level. All appointments are made on merit of skill, experience and potential as laid down in the job description and person specification.

Your role

The fundraising and communications group at CMS has ambitious goals and targets and you’ll play a key role in helping successfully deliver on these. You’ll harness the huge potential of social media and other digital platforms to help CMS get the attention of our target audiences, build brand awareness, raise money and recruit people to our mission programmes. As well as having a strong working knowledge of social media platforms, you will need to be able to create and edit video as well as other forms of compelling content.

The organisation you’ll be joining

Church Mission Society is comprised of people who are passionate about mission and fired up about helping people follow Jesus. For over 200 years CMS has been at the forefront of global mission, living out the gospel of Jesus, seeing lives changed and communities transformed. If you join CMS you will find an organisation that has been reinvigorated with a fresh vision to make disciples of Jesus among people at the edges, both in the UK and around the world.

What you’ll need to succeed

It is essential that the post holder has proven social media, organic and paid content production experience, including video creation, and knowledge of social media posting and interaction via Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn in an organisational context.

In addition, we are looking for proven website editing experience using a content management system such as WordPress and email marketing via a client such as DotDigital.

It is also a requirement for this post holder to be in sympathy with the aims and values of CMS.

Further details can be found in the job description and person specification available to download below.

Closing date

Please apply by midnight on Sunday 20 September

Interviews will be held on 29 September in CMS House, Oxford.

To apply for this job please visit churchmissionsociety.org.