Social Grit 

Charlotte, NC

Social Media Specialist

Full-Time

Social Grit is looking for a talented Social Media Specialist to join the team. The ideal candidate is obsessed with social media + marketing, keeps up with trends, and knows how to create unique content and grow brands on each social media platform.

As a Social Media Specialist, you’ll find and share engaging, informative, and entertaining content to connect with Social Grit’s online audience, as well as our client’s audiences.

 

About You:

  • You’re a passionate team player with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing, English, Communications, Journalism, Business or a related field.
  • You enjoy working at a startup and wearing different hats to help the company. 
  • You know all about each social media platform and how to use them in the most effective ways. 
  • You keep up with daily trends in the online world.
  • You’re native in memes and know how to effectively communicate to different audiences on each social media platform.
  • You’re able to monitor and manage social media accounts for multiple clients across all platforms.
  • You have at least 1-2 years of experience with content writing. You possess excellent writing skills and grammatical accuracy. 
  • You work well under pressure and don’t sweat meeting deadlines and quick turnarounds. 
  • You’re flexible when it comes to creating and posting content that reaches each client’s unique goals.
  • You love to learn and never stop trying to improve. 
  • You can work with a remote team.
  • You have a positive, can-do attitude, and lift up team members and clients. 

 

Responsibilities:

  • Work with our Social Media Manager and team to develop creative content across multiple channels that drives awareness, engagement, followers, leads, and conversions. 
  • Research, write, and edit content to successfully meet objectives. 
  • Create engaging content to connect to a diverse demographic to attract and grow the online audience for each client on each platform. 
  • Create timely graphics and memes that are on brand and grow accounts month over month.
  • Curate, schedule and share content relevant to each client’s industry that generates shares, likes, and clicks, etc. 
  • Assist in branding and strategy efforts for clients. Create social media audits and strategy docs to help clients with their branding and social media efforts. 
  • Quickly learn how to effectively communicate through various platforms
  • Exhibit excellent overall writing skills with exceptional spelling and grammar.
  • Show excellent organizational skills to keep client work organized and efficient. 
  • Overcome obstacles and think creatively about how to grow Social Grit and client accounts. 
  • Ability to adapt and help with other tasks as needed. 

 

Experience: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, English, Communications, Journalism, Business or a related field.
  • At least 1 year experience with Canva. 
  • At least 2 years experience with Photoshop or InDesign.
  • At least 3 years experience managing all main social media platforms for brands/businesses
  • At least 2 years experience using social media creation/editing apps like Over, Later, Preview, Unfold, iMovie, Headliner, Adobe Spark/Video, etc.  
  • Experience with task management platforms like Trello and ClickUp preferred.
  • Experience with CRM platforms like HoneyBook preferred. 
  • Experience with social media management platforms like Social Pilot preferred.
  • Experience with video editing preferred. 
  • Experience with email management platforms like Mailchimp and Constant Contact preferred. 
  • Experience with WordPress preferred. 
  • Experience writing/editing blog posts preferred. 
  • Experience with photography/videography preferred.
  • You know how to have a good time! 

 

Interested candidates will email wfoley at socialgritmarketing dot com with the subject line “Pick Me, SG!” and include:

  1. Why you want to work for Social Grit and what makes you a great fit
  2. Your favorite and least favorite part of social media management
  3. Your resume and links or attachments of your work that demonstrate your experience managing social media for brands/businesses
  4. Your hourly $ expectation