Social Media Manager

Social Media Manager (Sport)

Remote

Salary: 56K (AUD)

About the role

We are looking for someone based remotely in Australia with a keen interest in sport (Soccier, Grand Prix, and more) who is excited by the opportunity to work on fast-growing social channels and brands. You will thrive in a hybrid role that combines supportive client management and project leadership, with hands-on light-lift editing, copy, and publishing for client social channels.

• Act as the main day-to-day client contact, managing communications, timelines, and delivery with professionalism and attention to detail
• Publish content directly to client social channels (YouTube, Instagram, Meta, TikTok, X), ensuring consistency with brand voice and objectives
• Deliver regular reports to clients and internal teams, clearly communicating performance, insights, and recommendations
• Stay up to date with competitor activity and platform trends, especially in areas such as thumbnail design, titling, trending topics, and SEO
• Contribute to content strategy, campaign planning, and performance growth for client accounts
• Help identify opportunities to improve workflows, reporting, and collaboration between internal and client teams
• Work in fast-paced environments around live sporting events, ensuring content is published quickly, accurately, and to a high standard
• Strong understanding of Sports publishing and rights management.

The perfect candidate

You are passionate about growing digital channels and confident in your ability to define and deliver a Sports social strategy. Entrepreneurial and agile in your approach to work, you take ownership and are proactive in identifying opportunities.

Experience and skillset

• At least 3 years of experience in a digital content, social media, or account management role, ideally including YouTube and other social channel management
• Strong copywriting skills in English
• Confident managing client communications and building relationships
• Confident using data and analytics to identify trends and inform strategy
• Hands-on experience publishing to social media platforms, including uploads, optimisation, and scheduling - as well as during live sporting events
• Solid working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, especially Premiere Pro and Photoshop
• Experience with After Effects is a plus.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills, able to juggle multiple clients and projects simultaneously
• Able to work independently and within a collaborative team
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of SEO, content strategy, and audience development
• Be proactive and solutions-oriented in your approach to challenges

What does this mean in practice?

• Client management: Act as the main day-to-day client contact, ensuring clear and responsive communication, managing timelines, and delivering campaigns to a high standard.
• Social publishing: Own social publishing for specific sports events, tournaments, and matches across all platforms for clients, acting as the primary publishing resource.
• Strategic input: Take initiative on reporting, competitor analysis, trend spotting, and contributing to the development of client growth strategies.
• Process optimisation: Identify opportunities to improve workflows, reporting, and collaboration between internal and client teams.
• Stakeholder communication: Bridge the gap between creative teams and clients, ensuring clarity, collaboration, and smooth delivery across all touchpoints.
• Content Creation: Editing, simple social and YouTube design (e.g. thumbnails), ideation.

At Be A Bear, we foster a vibrant work environment that thrives on diverse perspectives and creative ideas. As strong advocates for inclusion and representation, we actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of race, disability, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Beyond compliance, we take pride in building a dynamic work environment that fosters creativity and champions inclusion, diversity, and representation.