Assists with the execution of strategic social media and digital initiatives including daily posts to all applicable social media platforms.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Assists with digital and social interaction with viewers and fans in real time on various web platforms.
- Determines best practices to optimize video content across social media platforms.
- Works with various departments to ensure proper online messaging, relevancy and consistency across multiple networks.
- Assists with cultivating new communities and managing branded online communities using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and other social media platforms.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
- A degree in communications, marketing, or a related field.
- 2+ years of marketing, public relations experience and/or social networking experience; strong familiarity with online marketing best practices.
WHAT YOU WILL BRING:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (including proofreading)
- Expert knowledge of social networking channels.
- Experience writing, editing and crafting content for the social media space.
- Experience with social media management and analytical tools.
- The ability to work with cross-functional teams, a knack for research, sharp wit and a willingness to work during nonstandard business hours.
ABOUT SCRIPPS:
The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating a better-informed world. As one of the nation’s largest local TV broadcasters, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of 61 stations in 41 markets. The Scripps Networks reach nearly every American through the national news outlets Court TV and Scripps News and popular entertainment brands ION, Bounce, Defy TV, Grit, ION Mystery and Laff. Scripps is the nation’s largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and is the longtime steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Founded in 1878, Scripps has held for decades to the motto, “Give light and the people will find their own way.”
