Angling Trust Vacancies
Social Media Manager
SALARY: £29,000pa plus contributory pension
HOURS: Full time (37.5 hours over 5 days per week)
TERM: Permanent
LOCATION: Homeworker
REPORTS TO: Head of Communications
We’re looking for a dynamic and creative Social Media Manager to lead our digital engagement across multiple platforms.
This role is pivotal in growing our online presence, engaging with the angling community, and driving awareness of our campaigns, membership benefits, and initiatives.
You’ll report to our Head of Communications and work closely with colleagues across all areas of Angling Trust and Fish Legal. You will be joining a passionate team working to protect, promote and develop angling.
As the lead for our many social media platforms you’ll play a key role in shaping the digital voice of a leading angling and environmental organisation, while working on exciting projects that influence the future of angling and benefit members.
This is a permanent, full-time role that suits an experienced social media manager who would like to work alongside very enthusiastic and supportive teams within a flexible and family-friendly organisation.
What you’ll be doing
- Overseeing the day-to-day management and development of our social media strategy and presence across a broad range of platforms, curating and publishing engaging multimedia content.
- Managing our content calendar to ensure a consistent, high-quality output across all platforms covering all aspects of Angling Trust’s and Fish Legal’s work.
- Lead role in managing audience participation, responding to comments, messages and community discussions in a timely and professional manner.
- Analyse and report on our social media performance using insights to optimise our content and audience engagement.
- Managing the social media promotional budget to boost posts to relevant audiences.
Who you are
- You’re a proven social media manager with experience of growing online communities through the use of your creative mindset and storytelling.
- You are familiar with a range of social media analytics tools and can use this to develop strategies to engage online communities.
- You are a people person, able to build strong collaborative relationships with others across the organisation.
- You are self-motivated and can work independently within a small team — you’re happy to manage a varied workload, ready to pivot with changing priorities, and willing to own your continuous professional development.
Who we are
The Angling Trust is the National Governing Body in England, representing fishing, one of the country’s largest participation sports. We are a not-for-profit organisation with a mission is to fight for fish, fishing and the environment, creating opportunities for all within society to experience fishing in a healthy aquatic world. It is joined in a collaborative and co-operative relationship with Fish Legal, a separate membership association using the law to protect fish stocks and the rights of its members throughout the UK.
Want to join us?
We believe a diversity of backgrounds, experience, and opinions builds the strongest team, so we encourage those from under-represented groups to apply — we are members of the Sporting Equals Charter and we’re actively participating in the Sport England sponsored Inclusive Employers development programme.
For more information about the role or to arrange an informal conversation, please contact Peter Devery, Head of Communications on [email protected]
A full Job Description can be downloaded here.
To apply for the vacancy, email our Head of Delivery, Stuart Sharp, at [email protected] – when applying, please submit your detailed CV and an informal covering letter.
Closing date: Friday 18 April 2025. Angling Trust reserves the right to close this application early.
Start date: Ideally May 2025.
Miscellaneous: The postholder will be provided with use of a laptop computer and mobile phone. Business expenses may be reclaimed in accordance with our policies.