Role: Casual - five days per week, working flexible hours based on team needs and the sporting calendar.
Location: London Bridge (minimum three days a week in-office).
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
