Digital Executive
Leicester City Football Club is looking to appoint a Digital Executive to join its Content & Creative team.
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Digital Executive
Leicester City Football Club is looking to appoint a Digital Executive to join its Content & Creative team.
Digital Executive
Leicester City Football Club is looking to appoint a Digital Executive to join its Content & Creative team.
Digital Executive
Leicester City Football Club is looking to appoint a Digital Executive to join its Content & Creative team.
Digital Executive
Leicester City Football Club is looking to appoint a Digital Executive to join its Content & Creative team.
About The Role
The role will require the successful candidate to administer, maintain, develop and take a creative approach to the Club’s digital and social media platforms, working with staff across the Football Club/Partners to deliver and assist with the development of the Club’s long-term digital strategy.
Who We’re Looking For 
The ideal candidate will have significant experience of working in a professional digital environment, either at a football club, sports or news organisation.
You will be an expert in creating engaging content across a range of social media platforms and be able to design graphics, gifs and animated graphics to be used on social media platforms and LCFC.com.
Working with the wider content team, you will manage the scheduling and delivery of media across social network channels.
Key Duties
  • To administer and maintain the Club's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok pages.
  • Work with the Creative Department and Senior Digital Executive to take an active role in graphic content creation, to be used across the Club's digital platforms.
  • To take the lead on organising and creating content for the in-stadia Matchday Entertainment programme, which include output on in-stadia screens.
  • On home matchdays, fulfil the role of show director of the Matchday Entertainment programme.
  • To assist the Senior Digital Executive in maintaining the Club's website, LCFC.com alongside the Club’s International Social Media Accounts.
  • Assist in the coverage of U23s games and live shows on social media in a studio-based role.
Essential Requirements
  • Significant experience of using Social Networking on behalf of a business/club, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, You Tube and TikTok.
  • Possess strong time management skills and have a flexible approach to work.
  • Excellent IT skills (including excellent MS Office – word, excel, PowerPoint).
  • Able to work to tight deadlines.
  • Flexible approach to long distance work-based travel and ability to work evenings and weekends.
  • Experience in using Adobe Photoshop is desirable.
About The Club
Knowing some of the history of Leicester City Football Club helps you appreciate the sense of community, spirit, and family for which the Foxes are renowned for.
Formed in 1884, the Club has been in the Premier League since 2014 when the Foxes returned to the Premier League as the Championship title-winners. In 2016, Leicester City became Premier League champions. This remarkable achievement qualified them for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the Club’s history, and they subsequently reached the quarter-finals.
Under the stewardship of King Power and the Club’s CEO Susan Whelan, Leicester City Football Club is deeply committed to the local community and its supporters and continually strives to ensure that every point of engagement with fans is truly world class including the experience on matchdays. Investment in the Club continues, with the opening of a new 180-acre training ground in north Leicester due this summer.
Ultimately, the Club’s vision is as exciting as it is simple: we believe that together, it’s possible. We value and respect individual difference and recognise that the diversity of our staff contributes to our success off the pitch. Our inclusive culture and approach is supported by our Stonewall Diversity Champions partnership, our Time to Change pledge and our status as a Disability Confident employer.
Salary – dependent upon experience.
Benefits Package
Leicester City Football Club offers a competitive salary and pension scheme with life assurance to all its permanent employees. Employees are able to benefit from free onsite parking as well as an onsite subsidised staff restaurant. Employees also benefit from up to 33 days’ annual leave including bank holidays. Access to an Employee Assistance Programme from the date of joining.
Contract Type – Permanent
Hours Per Week – 37.5, including weekends and evenings.
Leicester City Football Club is an equal opportunities employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identify or expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Leicester City Football Club is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. As such, you may be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Service and prior to taking up any role.
A shortlist of suitable applicants will be compiled shortly after the closing date and successful candidates will be contacted about the interview process.
Due to the urgency of filling this vacancy, suitable candidates will be interviewed as and when they apply, the role will be shut down as soon as a suitable candidate has been sourced.
If you feel you have the qualities and experience we are looking for please apply by filling in an application form, along with a CV and covering letter, by email to recruitment@lcfc.co.uk by no later than Thursday 10 June, 2021.
If you have been successfully selected for an interview, we will contact you directly with the information you have provided.

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