Job description.

MCG Talent have partnered with a communications firm based in Dubai, who are looking to hire a Social Associate Director to join their growing digital team.

The successful candidate must have experience in a hands on social media role for an established agency in the region.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the day-to-day client contact and lead for our social media clients, responsible for keeping client campaigns on schedule, effectively drawing from relevant teams and resources to deliver best-in-class social media strategy, execution and advisory
• Produce insight-driven, organic and paid social media strategies for their clients
• Execute paid social strategies, and brief creative team on the right multi-media formats to be produced (imagery, video, infographics, motion graphics) to achieve campaign objectives
• Work with the broader digital team to ensure all social campaigns are aligned with other digital channels, and the overall marketing objectives
• Work with the integrated comms team to ensure that the social media strategy, objectives and execution are aligned to the wider strategic / corporate comms goals
• Ensure all content produced complies with the client\xe2\x80\x99s brand guidelines and aligns with the overarching narrative and messaging
• Assist in developing long-term client plans and recommendations, generating suggestions, and creating presentations
• Mentor / manage social media & integrated comms junior consultants
• Business / Personal Development
• Build a professional network
• Participate in new business development for the group and collaborate among practice areas around the firm to support new business pitches

Requirements:

• 5-7+ years\' experience in running social media campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok
• Up to date on the latest trends in social media
• Ability to create and execute an overall social media strategy, present this to a client and lead on execution
• Proven ability to improve campaign performance through campaign optimization
• Experience in writing, briefing and creating social media content through monthly calendars and managing companies\' social pages
• Strong analytics skills \xe2\x80\x93 monitoring, analyzing and reporting and use it to report on campaigns success internally and to client teams
• Social media community management experience
• Experiencing working with and managing corporate and government clients a plus
• Knowledge of listening, publishing and reporting tools such Hootsuite, Social Bakers, etc. a benefit

Please note that MCG Talent can only respond to those candidates that we feel meet the criteria laid out by our client.

MCG Talent