Social Media Coordinator - Jersey City New Jersey

Company: AEG
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
Posted On: 04/18/2024

NJ/NY Gotham FC ("Gotham FC" or "the Club") is a National Women's Soccer League ("NWSL") team representing New Jersey and New York. The team plays at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, NJ.

The Role:

Gotham FC is seeking a Social Media Coordinator who will be responsible for helping position the Club as the most engaging and innovative soccer brand in social media. This role will manage the flow of content ideation, publication, and tracking of social content across all Club social channels. Loving sports is a plus, but loving the combination of social media, community, sports, and pop culture is even better. This role is responsible for both supporting the appropriate stakeholders in achieving their objectives, as well as helping achieve Gotham FC social media objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee and participate in the creation and publishing of social content on all platforms, including X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and other emerging platforms on weekdays, evenings and weekends (game, big event, and desk coverage required).
• Collaborate across the Club on strategies that leverage players, partners, influencers, and/or celebrities to achieve club-wide objectives.
• Develop and maintain content plans and activations in the social content calendar (Asana).
• Participate in the ideation and brainstorming of creative and promotional content
• Help support social with best practices documents, account analysis and metrics, player verification, etc.
• Analyze week-to-week analytics and be able to quickly adapt to best optimize content changes based on metrics
• Test new creative trends and solutions across platforms to improve creative content diversification (promotion vs. player personality content vs. match day content).
• Produce branded social content with partner brands and influencers promoting tune-in/matchdays. Qualifications:
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience in a similar role
  • Takes initiative and has a creative spirit
  • Prior corporate experience utilizing social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat
  • Proficiency in Google Suite and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Illustrator and/or other video and photo editing platforms)
  • Passionate about providing fans with a great digital/social experience by listening, interacting and producing innovative content
  • Knowledge of NWSL/Gotham FC and the U.S. Women's National Team
  • Highly organized with an eye for details
  • Ability to effectively manage projects and applicable deadlines
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a professional environment
  • Experience in reviewing, analyzing, and communicating social media data analytics, and creating goals as necessary
  • Commitment to quality work/content
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, team environment
  • Ability to work collaboratively with a diverse group of individuals across several departments
  • Demonstrated decision making and problem-solving skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbally Capability & Other Characteristics:
    • Ability and willingness to travel and to work non-traditional hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays
    • Knowledge of the Spanish Language and/or Portuguese preferred but not required
    • Legally authorized to work in the United States
      
      Location:
      
      Based at Gotham FC's business office, which is located at 15 Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey, on a hybrid working schedule which consists of three core in-office/in-person days (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) and two non-core days (Monday and Friday), with the option of being in the business office or remote. Ability to attend all home games and any mandatory events as well as away games, as necessary. A willingness to travel for other business-related needs, as they arise. Ability to work at the team's soccer operations office in Whippany, New Jersey, as needed. Gotham FC requires its associates to live in its market, that is, within reasonable commuting distance of Gotham FC's offices, practice facility and Red Bull Arena.
      
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      Gotham FC is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. We are committed to broadening the pool of qualified talent for consideration, including those who have been historically underrepresented. We strongly encourage people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply.
      
      Job type: Full-time Exempt position
      
      Salary range: $50,000 - $60,000
      
      Benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision benefit plans available for Employee and Family, Employee funded 401(k) option
      
      This job description is a broad summary of the essential job functions and general duties for this position, the additional job duties that may be required from time-to-time, the level of knowledge and skill typically required, and the scope of responsibility, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. The Social Media Coordinator may be required to and must be willing to perform other duties as assigned, to meet organizational needs. This job description may be modified from time to time, at the sole discretion of Gotham FC.
      
      This employee must follow and enforce all policies and procedures formulated by Gotham FC and be a role model for the organization.
      
      The existence of this job description does not modify the employee's "at-will" status. That is, unless a signed employment contract specifying a term of employment exists between Gotham FC and the employee or his/her/their representative, both Gotham FC and the employee will have the right to terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without reason or notice, unless otherwise prohibited by law.
      
      We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class. More...

          

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