OneFootball
Junior Social Media Manager
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Junior Social Media Manager
Location: England
Team: Social team
Type: 1-year contract
OneFootball is the world’s #1 digital football platform, reaching more than 200 million football fans across the world. Founded in 2008, we have come a long way to provide our users with the best personalised digital football experience. We are a team of around 250 football fanatics working from hubs in Berlin, London, and Lisbon. Our purpose is to disrupt the status quo and make football accessible and enjoyable.
Football never stops, and neither do football fans. As a Junior Social Media Manager at OneFootball, you'll help bring the biggest stories, moments, and conversations in football to life across our social channels. From breaking news and matchdays to trends, culture, and fan debates, you'll create content that reaches millions of football fans worldwide on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X, Threads, and WhatsApp. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who lives and breathes football, loves social media, and wants to develop their skills in a fast-paced, global football media environment where creativity, speed, and great storytelling make all the difference.
Your Role
- Support the day-to-day management of our social media channels, creating and publishing timely, platform-native content.
- Create engaging social content and visual assets around football news, live matches, and major football moments.
- Monitor football conversations, social media trends, and fan culture to identify opportunities for reactive content.
- Contribute ideas that turn football stories, trends, and fan moments into engaging content for our audience.
- Help grow and engage our global football community across social platforms.
- Ensure content is accurate, follows editorial standards, and aligns with our brand guidelines.
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Your Profile
- Passionate about football and knowledgeable about the global football landscape.
- You have 1–2 years of experience in social media, preferably within sports media, sports publishing, or a football-focused environment.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, reactive environment where football news moves quickly.
- An excellent writer with strong English communication skills and the ability to create engaging content tailored to different social platforms.
- Creative, proactive, and eager to learn and develop your social media expertise.
- Someone who takes ownership of their work, pays attention to detail, and isn't afraid to share ideas.
- Willing to work flexibly, including evenings and weekends around major football events.
- Familiar with Adobe Photoshop and comfortable creating or editing templated visual content.
Why Join Us?
- In the UK, we provide a flexible work environment, giving you the option to work remotely while encouraging occasional office visits for collaboration and connection.
- 🌴 Vacation days: 25 days (plus UK public holidays)
- 🎉 Anniversary Days: 1 extra day each calendar year (up to 5)
- 🎂 Birthday Day off: even if your birthday falls on a non-working day, you can enjoy the extra day off
- 🌟 Personal days: 5 "OneFootball days" to use when life happens, no questions asked!
- 📚 Learning & Development Budget: set on a department level - to invest in meaningful development opportunities, with a dedicated per-employee budget (after probation) and the flexibility to pool resources for impactful, shared learnings that support continuous career growth.
- 🧠 Mental Health Support via OpenUp - because your well-being matters
- 💰 Additional Pension Contribution for a secure future
- 🏩 Private Healthcare - because your health comes first
- 💻 Company-Issued MacBook to power your success!
- 👶 Enhanced Leave: Paternity Leave - 3 weeks fully paid for fathers & Maternity Leave - 6 weeks of fully paid leave for mothers
- 👋 Very cool office in Central London (Holborn) to come say hi and connect
- 🌍 Remote Work Abroad: We offer flexibility for our employees to work remotely. Being based in the UK, there may be additional considerations due to being outside the EU, but we’ll do our best to accommodate where possible.
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At OneFootball, we value the insights and ideas that stem from having a diverse team. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to be a part of the beautiful game irrespective of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, background, sexual orientation, religion, team followed, or other personal traits. Whether you're a dedicated 24/7 football fan or not, we actively seek to recruit and support a diverse team to ensure our platform, football, and the wider world are viewed through an inclusive lens.
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