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In the Content Creator position you’ll be responsible for developing the social content.
This role provides a huge opportunity to redefine the category and create content that truly has impact. As a social-first creative you’ll need to craft ideas that demonstrate cultural relevance and will be responsible for the daily management of the local community and moderation of our brand's social channels, ensuring that our content resonates with local audiences and meets their needs.
In this role you will:
- Develop and execute creative and engaging social media strategies in collaboration with strategy and creative teams.
- Manage the day-to-day handling of social media content across channels including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, adapting content to suit different channels.
- Spot social opportunities within wider creative ideas.
- Develop a monthly social editorial calendar and align with the wider content team.
- Create content in-the-moment in response to social trends.
- Ensure legal compliance of content (e.g. copyright and data protection).
- Develop innovative creative in response to client briefs, alongside identifying proactive opportunities to develop social content that will fulfill the brand objectives.
- Present ideas comprehensively to clients and colleagues, confidently explaining and supporting your thinking.
- Amend and redevelop content in response to feedback.
- Understand performance metrics, and use them to inform future creative development.
- Be responsible for the full creative funnel, from ideation to creation of social content.
- Understand social platforms and trends in real time to trigger new ideas and proposals for campaigns.
Experience you already have:
- A social native, active across a multitude of platforms.
- Demonstrate passion for socially-led creative thinking.
- 2+ years of proven work experience as a social-first creative for an agency / brand.
- Experience of developing exciting social executions for brands.
- A keen eye on emerging social trends across platforms
- Experience of crafting reactive content in response to social trends
- Experience working on brave, innovative brands, looking to push cultural boundaries.
- A keen eye for visual details and accuracy.
- A deep understanding of consumer behaviour, and adapting content plans to address the needs of the community.
- Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
- A great team player.
- Experience of basic camera work, editing and design is a bonus.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.