Social Content Manager
BioNews Employee Value Proposition
Be part of a special organization whose passion and culture are all about its patients. Contribute to helping our patient communities have a better quality of life. Learn about healthcare. Learn about rare diseases. Learn about publishing. Learn about research. Grow personally and professionally through direct engagement in how we deliver our services. Bring your passion to advocate for those living with rare diseases. Help spread awareness about the daily challenges that most will never have to face. We live our culture. Join us and make a difference. We are very proud of the fact that we employ actual rare disease patients who contribute to our business.
Who is BioNews
BioNews Services is a leading online health, science, publication, and research company that exists for one purpose: to serve the patient living with a rare disease. We do this by connecting them with current, trusted, and relevant news and information. This content is delivered regularly and provided by actual patients as well as professional journalists, writers, editors, scientists, and experienced media executives. Our end customers are truly patients living with rare diseases.
BioNews Vision
To empower, inspire, and champion the patient voice as the preeminent resource that serves to engage, inform, and connect the global rare disease community.
BioNews Purpose
We connect rare disease communities by providing a unified and distinctive space to engage, educate, and empower those affected by rare diseases to help improve patient health and quality of life.
Values: R.A.R.E.
- RESPONSIBILITY
- ADVOCACY
- RELATIONSHIPS
- EMPOWERMENT
Characteristics of people we’d like to be part of our team
Passionate about our culture. Engaging. Flexible. Interested in learning. Wants to be part of a growing, learning organization.
We are currently looking for a Full-Time hire for the role of Social Content Manager in our Multimedia Department.
Position Summary
BioNews is seeking a Social Content Manager. The Social Content Manager is responsible for creating, selecting, adapting, and sharing content in all BioNews’ social media platforms according to the team’s marketing strategy defined by the Director of Multimedia Services. The Social Content Manager has to have a deep technical knowledge on how social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, LinkedIn, SoundCloud, Reddit, and others work. This position requires knowledge of the audience BioNews serves (rare disease communities). The Social Content Manager needs to be comfortable working with platforms such as Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social etc and be able to interpret and export data from each social platform and Google Analytics. The ideal Social Content Manager needs to be fluent in English, have great written skills for storytelling and creating engaging pieces of content.
Location: Portugal or UK strongly preferred
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Creating, selecting, adapting and sharing content on all BioNews’ social media platforms
- Understanding the audiences BioNews serves and which content and type of language is considered appropriate and relevant to the rare disease communities
- Interacting with multiple departments on a daily basis
- Coordinating and executing several social initiatives in parallel
- Creating Instagram accounts
- Implementing content creation (40 to 50 pieces per week for Instagram)
- Start growing audience for new platforms (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook)
- Feeding content to platforms
- Scheduling duties and community management when needed
- Project management and must have reporting/ metrics skills
Education Required:
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Journalism, Public Relations, Communication, or Marketing or relevant experience
Experience Required:
- At least 2 + years professional experience with social media communication strategies
Experience Preferred:
- Experienced editorial manager in social media context
Skills Required:
- Excellent projects /time management
- Communications in English (written)
- Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – Proficient
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PP, Outlook) Proficient
- Google Apps – Preferred
- Google Analytics
- Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social
Abilities Required:
- Communication
- Organization
- Flexible
- Detail-oriented
- Team player
- Creativity