Social Media Assistant

The Team:

talkSPORT is the world’s biggest sports radio station and a globally renowned digital publisher, with a social footprint of more than 12M 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 ideate and create high-quality image graphics, alongside promoting website articles across our various social channels.

The Role:

You’ll utilise your creativity to take a proactive lead on creating bespoke, high-quality image 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, Instagram, X and TikTok.

This is a hands-on, fast-paced role ideal for someone who lives and breathes sport, has solid graphic design skills, and wants to kickstart a career in social 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 and graphics across multiple social platforms

• Write sharp, engaging social headlines and captions that help drive views, engagement and conversation

• Create and crop visuals using Photoshop, Canva, or similar tools to support our editorial content production

• React quickly to breaking news, trending topics, and live sports moments with timely, platform-optimised posts

• Monitor real-time traffic and social engagement data to inform what’s working

• Work collaboratively with the wider editorial and video teams to ensure consistency across all platforms

Essential Requirements:

• Strong Photoshop skills and/or general graphic design skills

• In-depth knowledge and passion for football, particularly Premier League football

• Experience creating and scheduling content across various social channels

• An understanding of what content performs well across specific platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok

• Excellent spelling, grammar and attention to detail

• Ability to work accurately and efficiently under pressure

• Friendly and approachable character who’s happy to receive guidance

• Willingness to work evenings and weekends around key sporting events

• Able to commute into our London Bridge offices at least three times a week

Desirable Additions:

• Interest and knowledge of other sports like Boxing, Darts, NFL and Golf 

• Prior experience working across sports-specific social accounts

• Basic video editing and/or publishing experience across YouTube and short-form platforms

• Creative thinker who can blend data-driven insights with unique ideas

• A fan of talkSPORT who regularly engages with our content