REPORTS TO: Eurasia Region Communications Coordinator

Estimated time commitment: 12-16 hours per week

Objectives

Serving under the Eurasia Region Communications Coordinator and as part of the regional communications team, the Eurasia Region Social Media Content Manager helps the regional communications team to develop and implement an ongoing social media strategy for the Eurasia Region.

The purpose is to enable the regional communications team to communicate stories, news, and other information with pleasing and effective visual elements through social media so that our regional Nazarenes are more interconnected across diverse cultures and contexts; to help deeply root our regional priorities in our members; to cultivate online engagement among Eurasian Nazarenes; as well as share other pertinent information and education.

The social media manager will work closely with the graphic designer, Field Communications Coordinators, Ministry Coordinators and wider Communications team to develop creative and innovative strategies for sharing our media and news.

Qualities of the Eurasia Social Media Content Manager:

  • Call by God to serve the church through communications/media
  • Excellence in honest, interpersonal communication
  • Understanding of ongoing developments in social media, apps, mobile devices, common websites and other platforms for sharing information
  • Creative and innovative thinker
  • Consistently meets deadlines
  • Team player
  • Adept at thorough research
  • Attention to detail
  • Proactive, self-starting, learner
  • Willing to follow leadership
  • Cares about other team members
  • Listens well and follows direction
  • Desire for excellence in the work
  • Positive attitude
  • Patient with others
  • Flexible and learner attitude when engaging with other cultures
  • Persistent in accomplishing goals and completing tasks
  • Must live in the Eurasia Region

Tasks

The tasks of the Social Media Manager may include any or all the following:

  1. Develop a social media strategy in conjunction with the Regional Communications Coordinator, then lead in executing it daily and/or weekly.
  2. Collaborate with graphic designer to create high quality and informative designs for social media posts.
  3. Collect and prepare archived photos from our regional countries and districts, to keep our churches and contexts in front of our regional and global church regularly along with prayer requests and basic information.
  4. Use social media to advertise and promote regional and global initiatives, such as the Alabaster offering, upcoming events such as regional conferences and General Assemblies, etc.
  5. Share regional stories and news links.
  6. Share global and regional video stories.
  7. Follow other Eurasian Nazarenes and global departments on social media to gather appropriate ideas for resharing through Eurasia social media.
  8. Be willing to travel as needed to collate and curate stories and photos.
  9. Stay up to date with GDPR regulations – training will be provided.
  10. Stay up to date with copyright law.
  11. Other work as requested.
  12. Collating the weekly newsletter.
  13. Uploading articles to the website.
  14. Uploading videos to YouTube.

Skills

  • Design software, such as Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Canva (a basic understanding of one or more is desirable)
  • Photography skills, and photo editing (a basic understanding of one or more is desirable)
  • Knowledge of different social media platforms and tools
  • Short form storytelling for social media
  • Email
  • Microsoft Word
  • Project management software (Active Collab – training available)
  • Zoom
  • Fluency in English
  • Uploading articles to website (WordPress – training available)
  • YouTube content management
  • Knowledge of different social media platforms and tools

Please email your resume/CV including portfolio pieces or links and references to communications@eurasiaregion.org to apply.

Closing date for applications is October 6th.