The Social Media Assistant supports LifeMission Church’s digital presence by managing social media platforms, developing content strategies, and fostering meaningful engagement with our online community. This role helps communicate the life of the church, extend the reach of its message, and connect people to what God is doing through engaging, intentional, and consistent social media content.
Job Responsibilities:
- Schedule, publish, and manage social media content across church platforms.
- Help develop social media strategies, posting plans, and engaging content ideas.
- Assist with planning and executing church-wide campaigns and ministry initiatives.
- Attend select church services and events to capture timely social media content.
- Monitor comments, messages, and conversations across social platforms and respond as appropriate.
- Identify opportunities to increase engagement, reach, and meaningful interaction with the online community.
- Collaborate with the Creative Manager and Digital Media Assistant to coordinate content creation, publishing, and distribution.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Competencies for Position:
- Leadership & Influence – Ability to lead and connect with adults and students, as well as build teams.
- Organization Skills – Attention to processes and details.
- Commitment to Excellence – Commitment to facilitating effective and life-giving services for the students of LifeMission Church and the community.
- Integrity – Committed to working with integrity and honesty while adhering to Child & Youth Protection Policy Guidelines.
General Skills & Qualifications:
- Desire and passion to serve Christ in the local church.
- Social media platforms are consistently managed with intentional, engaging content that reflects the life and mission of LifeMission Church, strengthens connection with the online community, and effectively supports church campaigns and ministry initiatives.
- High-quality content is consistently produced, published, and distributed in a way that increases engagement, reach, and storytelling effectiveness.
- Excellent communication skills – verbal, visual, written, and relational.
- Enthusiast of social media applications and technologies.
- Demonstrated familiarity with all popular social media channels with a strong understanding of different types of messaging.
- Highly organized and communicative.
- Solid knowledge of social media industry trends and analytic tools.
- Very creative with an eye for creativity.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong problem-solving and organizational skills.
- Flexibility to plan and work on multiple projects simultaneously; effectively manage time and prioritize workload.
- Ability to turn around projects on short timelines.
- Team player who thrives on providing timely, high–quality support for the various departments and ministries within LifeMission.