Social Media Specialist

The Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church is the business office for 600 plus churches and other ministries in the Houston area and across Southeast Texas. Our communications team is made up of creative individuals with fresh ideas and a common drive for success, telling the faith stories of the churches and their ministries through a variety of mediums. We are looking for a Social Media Specialist to help develop, implement, track, and optimize all paid and unpaid social media along with supporting our team. This individual should have an expert knowledge of all social digital marketing platforms, knowledge of AP writing, graphic design and some video production.If you are highly organized, detail oriented, able to follow directions well, a self-starter, flexible and a great problem solver, come join our team! A background in paid social media advertising and digital marketing is a bonus. Even better if you have a strong grasp of social marketing tools and strategies to lead campaigns from concept to execution. This person will work with the communications team, reporting directly to the Director of Communications. A knowledge of the United Methodist Church, its theology, structure, and practices are also a bonus.

Specific Duties

• Support team to plan and strategize all social media campaigns then execute campaign.
• Manage Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts @txumc with the goal of increasing overall audience size engagement with church pastors and leaders.
• Interact with stakeholders and respond to and/or hide posts.
• Create relationships with social media managers of local churches.
• Work with the communications team to develop a content calendar.
• Professionally represent the Texas Annual Conference on all channels.
• Write posts and develop graphics/video to go with posts.
• Provide monthly performance recaps for Director through Google Analytics.
• Coordinate with local United Methodist Churches in the Conference on social media initiatives.
• Manage calendar of projects to meet deadlines.
• Jump in on other communications projects regularly such as videos, photography, slides, article proofing, website updates and layout of brochures.

• Qualifications
• Four-year degree in communications, digital media, marketing, or graphic arts.
• One year of experience, or at least one semester internship working in social media.
• Working knowledge of: Adobe Illustrator, Facebook Business and social reports scheduling apps.
• Spanish speaker a plus.

The Texas Annual Conference social media channels help tell the story of God's love by informing, encouraging, inspiring and engaging followers of Christ. We also provide resources for the local church to share. Our communications team is very active on most social media channels @txumc.