Job Description

FREELANCE COMMUNITY MANAGER - REMOTE



We are an award winning digital content studio and media network who are currently on a quest to find an Arabic speaking, Freelance Community Manager based within the Gulf Region - Is this your next opportunity?


As a freelance Community Manager, you will work as one of a number of specialist in-market community managers across a range of platforms for a major basketball brand. It is essential that they are based within the Gulf Region.




The role focuses on content ideation, creation, publishing and community management within the specified key territory against a set of agreed deliverables. Strong knowledge of basketball, the teams and the players is required and the successful candidate should be able to translate that in an accessible way for the local market, to help reach new wider audiences engaging in the sport for the first time whilst also entertaining existing followers.


The Community Manager will focus most of their time on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram day-to-day but our wider in-house platform specialists will be looking to the successful candidate for additional in-market expertise and knowledge to support across other channels. The ability to craft engaging social copy and content suitable for the local and wider audience is vital along with an understanding of best practices in optimisation and publishing on a channel-by-channel basis. The skills to capture insightful social-first content (e.g. vertical video) are a requirement, while a proactive, energetic approach is also a must for this role


Some on-location coverage will be required with the key local market. Weekend and out-of-hours work is needed within the up to 20 hours per week specified below, due to the nature of sports fixtures and events and social media.


The successful candidate will be paid on a per-hour basis and required to complete time sheets to record hours worked.

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME


Working up to 20 hours per week (hours as dictated by the game schedule) your week would be approximately broken down as per the following deliverables:



• Ideate multi-channel, platform-bespoke social content across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for specific handles (to be specified in advance of the engagement), for delivery to a Little Dot Social Producer, who will be overseeing and communicating to the successful candidate an overarching content plan (approximately 2 hours each week on this task);
• Write copy and deliver basic graphic or video assets (approximately 5 hours each week on this task);
• Publish agreed content to specific Instagram, Facebook and Instagram handles (approximately 5 hours each week on this task);
• Engage the local community, respond to comments and interact with the local audience authentically (approximately 2 hours each week on this task);
• Capture original social-first content for multiple social platforms using your own devices/kit (approximately 2 hours per week on this task);
• Feed into the briefing process with Little Dot editors and designers to help them create bespoke localised graphic and video assets, using your local expertise (approximately 1 hour per week on this task).
• Seek opportunities to collaborate with relevant personalities and accounts in your key territory (approximately 1 hour per week on this task).
• Where required attend client meetings and calls to offer local market expertise (approximately 1 hour per week on this task);
• Cover relevant matches and on-the-ground events to your market across channels;
• Events are to be specified in advance, with dates, hours, deliverables and expectations to be set out by Little Dot via email (as dictated by the schedule of events, and agreed between the parties).

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED


Skills matter, experience is useful, attitude is everything.

• Excellent knowledge of social media platforms;
• Basic graphic design and video editing capabilities e.g. clipping moments, revisioning aspect ratio and updating graphic templates using Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop and Premiere Pro);
• Community Management experience;
• Demonstrable knowledge and passion for basketball - successful candidate should be embedded within the local basketball community and have the ability to translate to a wide range of audiences;
• Ability to work to a weekly and monthly content calendar and feed into the planning process;
• Excellent attention to detail, spelling and grammar, with proficiency in business;
• English (oral and written) including social media specifics;
• Experience with vertical self-shooting and writing social-first localised copy;
• Good knowledge of sports social media content on all social platforms;
• Ability to work independently but cohesively as part of a wider strategy;

SOFTWARE AND EQUIPMENT



You will need to provide your own computer capable of running the following software:

• A fully licensed copy of Adobe Premiere and Photoshop, (version 23 or later).
• A modern browser that supports Google Workspace apps (Drive, Docs, Sheets etc), e.g. Chrome version 108 or later.


In addition, you will need to provide your own mobile phone capable of the following:

• Support native social apps.
• Capture a minimum of 1080p vertical video.
• Send and receive video and photographs.


When using your own personal device to process or store company/client data, you must follow the security recommendations as set out in the Little Dot Information Security Policy and Remote Working Policy, together with any other data security instructions given to you from time to time by the Company/client. You must ensure the device is running licensed software with all supplier/manufacturer-recommended security patches installed together with up-to-date anti-virus software.


You will also need a reliable broadband connection capable of downloading and uploading multiple raw video assets per day. An average upload/download speed of at least 20Mbps is recommended.

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