Scout Media Manager

Scout Media Manager

Ongoing role
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At a glance

Skills

  • Marketing strategy
  • Social media marketing
  • Web design (including UX/UI)

Where

Wakefield, WF1 5NU
Mainly at home
Travel limit? Local to Wakefield

Time

Either in or out of office hours Estimate of time needed:
1-3 hours / week
This role will be mostly based at home as/when you need however there maybe occasional visits to events to capture images, videos, etc.

Deadline

09 Oct 2025

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Our young people love the adventures that they have with Scouting. We are looking for someone creative to help capture and share those adventures.

What will you be doing?

The role of the Scout Media Manager is to seek out good news stories and develop content for the Districts various communications channels.

The key purpose of this role is to provide relevant and exciting content for our communications team to use for sharing with our members, parents, supporters and the general public.

Main Tasks

  • Seek out good news stories and develop content (images, quotes, video, story).
  • Develop contacts within Groups and District sections to acquire relevant stories.
  • Monitor media coverage along with HQ and County level stories to produce required content for responses.
  • To regularly promote the image of modern Scouting organisation to media groups via local “awareness” campaigns
  • Create a media plan to promote Scouting
  • Create new media contacts locally

What are we looking for?

We are looking for someone with the relevant skills in developing of media and a keen eye for engaging content

What difference will you make?

Scouts are do-ers and give-it-a-go-ers. Yes, we go camping, hiking, swimming, abseiling, cycling and canoeing. But we also get to hang out with our friends every week –  having fun, playing games, working in a team and taking on new challenges.

Every week we give 6-25 year olds the skills they need for school, college, university, the job interview, the important speech, the tricky challenge and the big dreams: the skills they need for life.

Causes
  • Children / families
  • Local / community
  • Young people
  • Organisation type: 
    Charity

    We believe that through adventure we challenge individuals so that they learn and experience new things that enrich their lives.

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