Social Media Officer
| Posting date: | 05 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 January 2026 |
| Location: | Sheffield, S10 2TN |
| Company: | University of Sheffield |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 2088-43878587 |
Summary
University of Sheffield
We’re recruiting a Social Media Officer for the University of Sheffield’s Marketing, Admissions, Recruitment and Communications department. This position is for an experienced and trend-aware specialist in social media content creation and channel growth, joining our Social Media Team.
The University’s Social Media Team enhances the University’s reputation by guiding the creation and management of social media content and channels. These target current, prospective, and alumni students, academics, funders, policy makers, and other audiences around the world.
This is a busy and challenging role but it’s also terrifically satisfying and rewarding. You’ll lead the coordination, development, and distribution of a rapid flow of timely, authentic, and relevant social media content with confidence.
You’ll be an experienced social media channel manager; comfortable making enterprise-level decisions at speed.
And you’ll be an inclusive and inquisitive communicator who can directly contribute to developing high value social media practice for our academics, researchers and other colleagues across the University.
In return, you’ll collaborate with inspiring students and transformative academics to share our award-winning student experience and world-leading research with an international audience.
What We Offer
The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.
We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts and much more.
We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.
We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.
Find out more at sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/benefits and join us to become part of something special.
We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.
We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.
We’re recruiting a Social Media Officer for the University of Sheffield’s Marketing, Admissions, Recruitment and Communications department. This position is for an experienced and trend-aware specialist in social media content creation and channel growth, joining our Social Media Team.
The University’s Social Media Team enhances the University’s reputation by guiding the creation and management of social media content and channels. These target current, prospective, and alumni students, academics, funders, policy makers, and other audiences around the world.
This is a busy and challenging role but it’s also terrifically satisfying and rewarding. You’ll lead the coordination, development, and distribution of a rapid flow of timely, authentic, and relevant social media content with confidence.
You’ll be an experienced social media channel manager; comfortable making enterprise-level decisions at speed.
And you’ll be an inclusive and inquisitive communicator who can directly contribute to developing high value social media practice for our academics, researchers and other colleagues across the University.
In return, you’ll collaborate with inspiring students and transformative academics to share our award-winning student experience and world-leading research with an international audience.
What We Offer
The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.
We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts and much more.
We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.
We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.
Find out more at sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/benefits and join us to become part of something special.
We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.
We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.