Social Media Assistant - talkSPORT.com (Casual)
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Job overview
Social Media Assistant role at talkSPORT.com, a casual position working five days a week with flexible hours, based in London Bridge office at least three days weekly, creating graphics and promoting website articles across social channels.
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Full job description
Social Media Assistant - talkSPORT.com (Casual)
Location:
London
Department
News Broadcasting
Salary Range:
Not Specified
Advertising End Date:
06 Sep 2026
Job Description
Role: Casual - five days per week, working flexible hours based on team needs and the sporting calendar.
Location: London Bridge (minimum three days a week in-office).
The Team:
talkSPORT is the world’s biggest sports radio station and a globally renowned digital publisher, with a social footprint of more than 12M followers.
The talkSPORT.com team spans several departments – including editorial, social, audience and tech – and we’re looking for a new Social Media Assistant to help ideate and create high-quality image graphics, alongside promoting website articles across our various social channels.
The Role:
You’ll utilise your creativity to take a proactive lead on creating bespoke, high-quality image graphics for our various social media channels. These will serve to spark on-platform engagement – encouraging audiences to interact with our posts – and to drive traffic back to our owned and operated platforms, namely talksport.com .
Working closely with the Social Media Editor and wider editorial team, you’ll support the day-to-day running of our accounts, ensuring talkSPORT’s website content is promoted quickly, accurately, and creatively across platforms including Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok.
This is a hands-on, fast-paced role ideal for someone who lives and breathes sport, has solid graphic design skills, and wants to kickstart a career in social media.
Day to day you will:
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Create highly engaging graphics for our social channels, based on the sporting news cycle, to encourage conversation and debate
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Post and schedule talkSPORT.com stories and graphics across multiple social platforms
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Write sharp, engaging social headlines and captions that help drive views, engagement and conversation
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Create and crop visuals using Photoshop, Canva, or similar tools to support our editorial content production
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React quickly to breaking news, trending topics, and live sports moments with timely, platform-optimised posts
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Monitor real-time traffic and social engagement data to inform what’s working
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Work collaboratively with the wider editorial and video teams to ensure consistency across all platforms
Essential Requirements
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Strong Photoshop skills and/or general graphic design skills
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In-depth knowledge and passion for football, particularly Premier League football
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Experience creating and scheduling content across various social channels
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An understanding of what content performs well across specific platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
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Excellent spelling, grammar and attention to detail
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Ability to work accurately and efficiently under pressure
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Friendly and approachable character who’s happy to receive guidance
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Willingness to work evenings and weekends around key sporting events
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Able to commute into our London Bridge offices at least three times a week
Desirable Additions
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Interest and knowledge of other sports like Boxing, Darts, NFL and Golf
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Prior experience working across sports-specific social accounts
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Basic video editing and/or publishing experience across YouTube and short-form platforms
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Creative thinker who can blend data-driven insights with unique ideas
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A fan of talkSPORT who regularly engages with our content
About The Candidate
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