Social Media Specialist

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

💕 Social Media Manager

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

👻 Ghost score 22%

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VirtuHire

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

Recruitment • HR Tech • SaaS

VirtuHire is a remote recruiting and employer-of-record service focused on connecting businesses with vetted South African talent. The company rigorously vets candidates and provides a curated shortlist, interview scheduling, onboarding, payroll, compliance, and full employee management. It offers a no-fee recruitment process, advertises cost savings versus local hires, and emphasizes English proficiency, university-educated candidates, and industry experience. Metrics provided include clients served, hires made, and a high retention rate. VirtuHire positions itself as a partner handling hiring, EOR services, and HR administration to let clients focus on growth.

📋 Description

• Set up new TikTok, Instagram and other social media accounts, including profiles, bios, branding and business settings • Warm up and grow new accounts organically while following platform guidelines • Monitor account performance and health, including reach, views, restrictions and suspensions • Identify and resolve account-health issues • Source, vet and onboard creators, influencers, UGC talent and account operators • Coordinate creator activity and posting across accounts and markets • Manage posting schedules and content distribution across the account network • Maintain accurate and secure records of accounts, ownership and access • Track performance of account setup methods, posting frequencies and content formats • Stay current with platform policies, community guidelines and algorithm changes

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years' hands-on experience creating and growing social media accounts for a brand, agency or creator network • Proven experience growing new TikTok and/or Instagram accounts from the ground up • Able to provide examples of accounts grown and results achieved • Strong understanding of platform community guidelines, account health signals and causes of restrictions • Experience working with or managing creators, influencers or UGC talent • Highly organised and comfortable managing multiple accounts simultaneously • Excellent written and spoken English • Comfortable working remotely during UK business hours • Experience with UK or US audiences, social media scheduling tools, consumer brands, e-commerce or entertainment businesses advantageous • Basic content creation or video-editing skills beneficial

🏖️ Benefits

• Potential to extend the initial term into 2027 • Fast-moving, creative work environment • Opportunity to work with creators, influencers, UGC talent and account operators • Remote work arrangement