Blaise Grimes-Viort

Following on from my blog post about defining Online Community and Social Media job descriptions, here is a generic Social Media Manager job description template.

These job description templates are written with the assumption of a hierarchy of Manager, Head of Department, Director. If the role manages a team or includes strategic or budgetary control, responsibilities can be taken from each level job description to create a hybrid. I am also keen to split up Community Management and Social Media Management, which in my mind are two different types of roles. I have deliberately left out years of experience from the “Requirements” section as this is down to personal preference.

Social Media manager

Job Specification

The Social Media Manager will implement the Company’s Social Media Strategy, developing brand awareness, generating inbound traffic and encouraging product adoption. This role coordinates with the internal Marketing and PR teams to support their respective missions, ensuring consistency in voice and cultivating a social media referral network.

Responsibilities

• Implement the social media strategy, coordinating with stakeholders across the Company to ensure its effectiveness and encouraging adoption of relevant social media techniques into the corporate culture and into all of the company’s products and services

• Work with the Product development team to ensure social media tools (for ex. FB connect, Sharing buttons) are kept up to date

• Manage social media campaigns and day-to-day activites. Duties include online advocacy, writing editorial, community-outreach efforts, promotions, etc.

• Manage presence in social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, and other similar community sites, posting on relevant blogs, and seeding content into social applications as needed

• Become an advocate of the Company in social media spaces, engaging in dialogues and answering questions where appropriate

• Manage a Blogger outreach program and build an active brand ambassador network to spread the word about the Company

• Monitor effective benchmarks for measuring the impact of social media programs, and analyze, review, and report on effectiveness of campaigns in an effort to maximize results

• Regularly feed back insights gained from social media monitoring into the Marketing and Editorial teams, to help them evolve their strategies in a timely fashion

• Monitor trends in social media tools, trends and applications

Requirements

• Strong project management or organisational skills

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of social media platforms and their respective participants (Facebook, Digg, Youtube, Twitter, Flickr etc.) and how they can be deployed in different scenarios

• Knowledge of blogging ecosystem relevant to the Company’s field

• Ability to effectively communicate information and ideas in written and verbal format, and build and maintain relationships

• Team player, with the confidence to take the lead and guide other departments when necessary

• Good technical understanding and can pick up new tools quickly

• Have a good knowledge of principles of SEO

• Public relations, Marketing, Sales, Community Management experience, a plus

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So there you have it – a generic entry level Social Media Manager job description template. What do you think? Is there anything else you think is missing?

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