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Social Media Marketing Assistant

Schedule: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM AEDT (Sydney time)
Total Weekly Hours: 40 hours

 

Responsibilities

Content & Podcast Support

  • Edit podcast video content for distribution across digital channels

  • Create, schedule, and publish social media content across multiple platforms (OSS and podcast accounts) using Canva and Hootsuite, including posts, reels, stories, and shorts

  • Maintain and manage a content calendar to ensure campaigns, posts, and EDMs align with events and business priorities

 

Social Media & Community Management

  • Monitor social media channels daily and respond to comments and routine messages

  • Escalate complex, sensitive, or non-standard enquiries to the appropriate team member

  • Track engagement, growth, and performance to inform ongoing improvements

 

Email Marketing & Digital Campaigns

  • Build, schedule, and optimize EDM campaigns

  • Set up, manage, and refine email marketing automations, segmentation, pop-ups, and tagging workflows in MailerLite

  • Support paid digital marketing activity as required

 

Website & Systems Management

  • Update and maintain the WordPress website, including basic content changes and event updates

  • Ensure key pages remain accurate and current

 

Inbox & Customer Communications

  • Manage shared inboxes for multiple staff members, including filtering, labeling, prioritization, and routing enquiries

  • Handle routine customer communications such as refunds and credits

  • Escalate exceptions or edge cases to the appropriate team member for approval

 

Reporting & Administration

  • Prepare weekly performance reports across social media, EDMs, and key campaigns, including engagement, growth, conversion signals, and recommendations

  • Provide general administrative support, including filing, digital organization, and calendar management

  • Support workflow management and process documentation by helping build and improve SOPs, checklists, and repeatable systems

 

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in social media management and content scheduling

  • Proficiency with Hootsuite or similar social media management tools

  • Experience with email marketing platforms (MailerLite preferred; Mailchimp acceptable)

  • Strong written communication skills for customer-facing interactions

  • Experience in hospitality, entertainment, or service-based industries is preferred

  • Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities

  • Comfortable working with adult or mature content in a professional context

 

Scope of Work

  • Work with an Australian, Sydney-based business
  • Collaboration with a creative team member who provides content

  • Month-to-month engagement with flexibility to adjust hours based on business needs

 

Independent Contractor Perks

  • Health insurance (available in eligible locations)

  • Permanent work-from-home arrangement

  • Immediate hiring

Social Media Marketing Assistant

Job Category

Marketing and Content

Job Type

Full Time (35 hours or more per week)

Work Schedule and Timezone

8 am to 5 pm AEDT Sydney time

Published on

Jan 21 2026