Role: Social Content Creator - lifestyle and foodie focused, FTC 1 year with the view to extend

Location: Hybrid - min 2 days per week on site in Kingston offices and once a week in the London office

ROLE MISSION

Live and breathe TikTok trends? Know social media culture, particularly within food, fashion, art and gaming? We need your help to create best-in-class, social native content to insert household name, ice cream brands into the #FoodTok leader board.

This exciting and fast-paced role will place you at the core of a high-performing social team, with the mission to cut through the noise and resonate with Gen Z on social platforms. From beautiful ASMR and product content to the latest memes, you will be the first to know about and proactively jump on trends, using your eye for detail and skill for transitions and slicker editing, to execute content and aligning to the brand’s communication goals. 

ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

This position reports to the Social Lead based in London, Blackfriars and Kingston.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE

• You will work across a number of ice cream brands, to shoot and edit social-first content, originating storyboards/scripts/shot lists, props and then seeing the content all the way through to delivery.
• You will know #FoodTok, TikTok and Instagram creative style like the back of your hand, speaking social trends and culture as a second language.
• You will be the first to know about the latest trend and proactively share it with your team with concepts to execute that make sense for the brand’s personality and goals.
• Comfortable in handling food and creating and shooting basic recipes including ice cream in stick and tub format.
• Content to produce includes short-form video, photography, gifs, short clips etc and include but not limited to product demos, unboxing, first person POV content, lifestyle content and meme content.
• Skilled at shooting content using transitions and a pro at beautifully editing native social content.
• Content shoots will be based both at events or in your own kitchen or living room.
• Content will be reactive based on social trends, or ladder up to key brand campaigns. You will be in charge of translating these campaigns in a way that makes sense for the brand and resonates with consumers.
• Attend relevant events for the brand such as shoots, PR, and influencer events to capture social content.
• Organising your own time and managing various deadlines to ensure timely delivery of content. 

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL 

As a high-judgment, self-motivated, and creative professional, experienced in creating trend-driven, Gen Z inspired TikToks, Reels and stills in support of the client Ice Cream brand’s communication goals. 

• A portfolio or content to illustrate 3+ years’ experience of social media/content creation experience (don’t have the experience but got the eye and the portfolio to prove it? Apply anyway!).
• A well-rounded highly creative professional who is always innovating, initiating, and creating, understanding what makes winning social content.
• Skilled at creating foodie content, basic recipes, shooting at events, meme content in short-form video and stills formats. 
• Thorough knowledge of UK and Global culture moments – food, fashion, music, beauty, gaming and world events - be responsive to cultural zeitgeist which provides an opportunity to tell our brand’s story.
• Excited about working with people across Brand, Strategy, Social and Creative to make content about food, recipes, and skilled at shooting social media content for campaigns and events.
• Understand business and client objectives when interpreting and executing briefs.
• Mastered the ability to turn any branded content into a volume of social gold.
• Comfortable being in front of the camera when needed, even when their hands are in view. They should have well-groomed hands and be able to use them in a natural and engaging way that aligns with our brand’s content production needs.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity – have a bias for action, but an ability to work cohesively with other stakeholders.
• Developed extraordinary transition, video and photo editing skills.
• Familiar with working on almost every content creation platform out there: CapCut & design templates in Canva or Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, TikTok, Instagram, FB Live, etc.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US

• You will be joining an on-site agency team who are super passionate about best-in-class social and creative. You’ll work closely with your social team, digital specialists, brand managers and creative team.
• A dynamic work environment
• The opportunity to join a successful and forward-thinking organization
• Access to subsidised cafeteria and discounted household item shop
• Career fulfilment working on high profile client projects
• Competitive compensation and benefits

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Lots of agencies say they're different. OLIVER is.

OLIVER believes that agencies work better inside a brand's organisation; delivering more effective work at the speed required to drive modern businesses forward. Using our unique Inside Intelligence methodology, we build specialist, dedicated in-house agencies that collaborate with clients to form better marketing solutions.

Established in 2004, our model is now driven by over 4000 people, working across more than 200 in-house agencies globally. Clients include The Guardian, Unilever, Barclaycard, PepsiCo, AXA, The AA, Adidas, BMW, Post Office, and 3M. OLIVER is part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which also includes a global content agency to Adjust your Set, design, experience, and engineering company DARE and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming.

OUR VALUES

We are a company built on our values, we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be Ambitious to succeed

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be Results-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

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