The Southeastern Conference is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Assistant Director of Digital & Social Media, which will assist content creation and strategic messaging efforts on official SEC platforms.

Responsibilities to be successfully fulfilled by the Assistant Director of Digital & Social Media include:

• Alongside the Director of Digital & Social Media, help maintain the SEC’s social media strategy, utilizing multiple platforms to impact and highlight the student-athlete experience, drive fan engagement, and achieve organizational goals
• Brainstorm, create, and publish content to the SEC’s social media channels, website and other platforms
• Contribute to the maintenance, organization, and oversight of the overall content calendar for the SEC communications, creative services and marketing departments
• Write excellent, attention-grabbing copy for social media that intrigues and entertains users while maintaining a consistent voice on all SEC social platforms
• Assist the Director of Creative Services with the development and design of still graphics and motion animations
• Assist the Director of Marketing with the development and execution of promotional content, collateral and messaging
• Coordinate and execute sport-specific information created by SEC sport communications contacts to generate positive publicity for the SEC via its various digital platforms, including implementing specialized strategies for championship events, media days, and other special events such as signing days, awards presentations, professional draft days
• Work alongside the SEC’s 14 institutions, championship host cities, contracted content providers and the SEC Network to execute campaigns, promote events and share content
• Travel to and assist with management of selected SEC Championship and Media Days events and other events as appropriate and assigned
• Stay up to date on industry trends and emerging platforms, and monitor current state of SEC social and digital media performance, including the identification of appropriate metrics that are beneficial to the SEC
• Other duties as assigned by the Director of Digital & Social Media

Minimum qualifications for this position include a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university. Candidates are expected to have successful experience in digital communications including advanced content creation skills and a proficient understanding of relevant social media platforms, and an understanding and appreciation of analytics tools. Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud software preferred. Video and/or photo shooting and editing skills preferred. Experience utilizing collaboration, communications and organization tools like Slack, Trello and GSuite preferred. The successful candidate will have superior organizational skills, basic journalism experience and news judgment, proficient computer skills, the willingness to work in an environment with multiple priorities and meet deadlines, have both strong written and verbal communication abilities, and must be willing to travel and work evenings, weekends and non-traditional hours.