Social Media Manager
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Role Overview
VC Crafters is seeking an experienced Social Media Manager to lead social strategy, content planning, community engagement, campaign execution, performance analysis, and brand communication.
The role is part-time and fully remote in the United Arab Emirates.
The ideal candidate combines creative storytelling with commercial awareness and audience-growth expertise.
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The Role
VC Crafters is seeking an experienced Social Media Manager to lead social strategy, content planning, community engagement, campaign execution, performance analysis, and brand communication.
The role is part-time and fully remote in the United Arab Emirates.
The ideal candidate combines creative storytelling with commercial awareness and audience-growth expertise.
Social Media Management
- Develop and execute social media strategies aligned with company and marketing objectives.
- Manage daily activity across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, YouTube, and other relevant platforms.
- Create weekly and monthly content calendars and develop posts, captions, videos, stories, reels, polls, and other formats.
- Ensure published content follows brand guidelines, tone of voice, visual standards, and approved messaging.
Audience and Community Engagement
- Research audience interests, platform trends, competitors, industry developments, and emerging content formats.
- Identify opportunities to increase organic reach, engagement, followers, website traffic, leads, and brand awareness.
- Respond professionally to comments, messages, mentions, reviews, and customer inquiries.
- Monitor online conversations and escalate reputation, customer-service, or sensitive issues under approved procedures.
Campaigns and Collaboration
- Plan and execute social campaigns, product launches, promotions, events, competitions, and brand initiatives.
- Coordinate with designers, video editors, copywriters, photographers, influencers, and external agencies.
- Support paid social campaigns through creative assets, audience coordination, messaging, and performance tracking.
- Collaborate with business-development and sales teams on lead-generation and commercial campaigns.
- Develop and evaluate influencer and creator collaborations where appropriate.
Analytics and Optimization
- Track reach, impressions, engagement, follower growth, clicks, leads, conversions, and content performance.
- Prepare weekly and monthly reports with actionable insights and recommendations.
- Use analytics to identify high-performing content and improve future campaigns.
- Conduct A/B testing of content formats, messaging, posting schedules, and creative approaches where appropriate.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant field is preferred.
- At least 3 years of relevant professional experience is preferred.
- Proven experience managing professional social media accounts and developing content strategies.
- Strong understanding of social platforms, audience behavior, content formats, and engagement strategies.
- Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
- Strong copywriting, storytelling, editing, creative thinking, organization, and project-management skills.
- Comfort using social media analytics and performance-reporting tools.
- Strong understanding of digital analytics, KPIs, conversion tracking, and social media ROI.
Advantageous Experience
- Additional languages such as Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Mandarin, French, or Russian are advantageous.
- Experience with Meta Business Suite, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud, or comparable tools is advantageous.
- Experience with scheduling platforms, paid social advertising, influencer marketing, community management, or lead-generation campaigns is advantageous.
- UAE or GCC market experience and relevant digital marketing or platform certifications are advantageous.
What We Offer
- Flexible part-time work in a creative and digitally focused environment.
- Opportunity to grow digital communities across multiple platforms and industries.
- Exposure to content creation, influencer partnerships, digital campaigns, analytics, brand strategy, and online customer engagement.
- Professional development and continuous learning in social media strategy, content marketing, digital advertising, analytics, and emerging platforms.
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