Job Description

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About the Role

We're looking for a proactive and creative Social Media and Digital Officer to join our small but mighty team at Become. As part of our Policy, Campaigns and Communications team, you'll play a key role in growing our brand, raising awareness of our campaigns and supporting our influencing work. You'll lead on community management and paid and organic content across all our social channels. You'll help us reach more young people and create a supportive and inclusive community for them in our online spaces. With a new ambitious strategy and bold rebrand, it's a great time to join us. If you're always the first to jump on a TikTok trend, have a talent for creating high-quality, mobile-first video content, and are passionate about making a difference, we'd love to hear from you.


As an organisation serving children in care and care leavers, we're keen to receive applications from people with experience of care and recognise the importance of having care-experienced staff within our team. We're also actively seeking to bring diversity of perspectives and experience, and especially welcome applications from people from racially minoritised communities.


Become is committed to tackling systemic racism and providing an inclusive, equitable workplace. We recognise that embedding equity, diversity and inclusion principles is an ongoing journey and one which we are determined to invest in.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

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As an organisation serving children in care and young care leavers we are keen to receive applications from people with lived experience of care. We are actively seeking to bring diversity of perspectives and experience, and especially welcome applications from those from racially-minoritised communities. We ask all applicants to fill in an Equity and Diversity Monitoring from to better understand the diversity of applicants. This is anonymous and cannot be connected with your application.

How to apply

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At Become, we ask interested applicants to answer several competency-based questions.


Your application and answers will be reviewed anonymously to ensure fairness and help remove bias from the application process. You'll need to send us your CV but it will only be considered if you score well as part of the anonymous review.



To apply for this role, you will need to:

Provide us with a copy of your CV; Answer the questions below in no more than

400 words

per question, providing relevant examples to demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience required; Complete the Equity and Diversity Monitoring Form (this is not compulsory but the information is very useful to us).


If you'd like an informal chat before applying, please contact Victoria Wilson, Strategic Communications Manager (victoria.wilson@becomecharity.org.uk) and we'll arrange a convenient time.



Please also tell us if there are any

reasonable adjustments,

we can make to assist you in your application.

The deadline for applications to be received is the 6th June @ 11.59pm.

Interview details:

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Interviews will have two parts:

A sessionwith young people; A panel interview with Become staff.

Interviews may be held virtually using a video calling app (Microsoft Teams or Zoom) or in person at our location in Central London. If access to technology/WiFi is difficult for you, please contact us so we can assist in making suitable arrangements.


Become also wants to ensure fairness in all of our interviews so all successful shortlisted candidates will be sent the interview questions in advance.


Interviews will take place:

Young people's panel: 25th June 2025 Staff panel: 30th June 2025

Please Note

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All applicants must have a Right to Work in the UK. Although the role is hybrid, we are unable to offer work visas or sponsorship for any candidates based outside of the UK.

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