Social Media & Comms Coordinator

About the role

As the Social Media & Storytelling Coordinator at Student Volunteer Army, you'll get out and talk to students, run interviews and surveys, and turn what you learn into content that brings our impact to life across social media and our website. Plan events and campaigns and help shape our creative direction.

Key responsibilities

• Own SVA's overall social media strategy, making sure platforms, content, and campaigns work together to grow reach and engagement

• Lead, plan, and conduct interviews and surveys with students to collect stories

• Shoot, edit, and create short-form video content

• Support overall creative direction across SVA's channels

• Use data to help shape and strengthen the stories we tell

• Track engagement across social media and the website, using insights to help grow SVA's overall reach

• Develop and maintain SVA's social media content plan and calendar, aligned with key dates, campaigns, and organisational priorities

• Plan, run, and report on social media campaigns end-to-end, from concept through to results

• Liaise directly with students to source stories, content, and quotes

• Manage SVA's day-to-day social media platforms

About you

• A love of short-form video and content creation
• Confidence chatting with people and asking good questions
• A creative eye for branding
• Experience running social media campaigns
• Ability to formulate and create campaigns that are genuinely impactful
• Proactive go-getter who can take initiative
• Ability to work in a small team and multi-task
• Strong writing skills
• Confidence turning platform and website analytics into clear, compelling reporting

About us

Student Volunteer Army began in 2011, when Christchurch students turned up to help their city recover from the earthquakes. Nobody had to ask them twice. Fifteen years on, we've grown into a national network supporting tens of thousands of students to volunteer safely, meaningfully, and together, and our mission hasn't changed: build the next generation of community