About Us:

The Kitchen Magpie is a long-standing popular food blog dedicated to sharing delicious recipes, cooking tips, and culinary inspiration from Karlynn Johnston's studio kitchen in Edmonton, Alberta. Three best-selling cookbooks and 16 years of blogging later, it is time to seek out a talented and enthusiastic Social Media Manager to join our team and help us grow our online presence.

Position Summary:

As the Social Media Manager, you will use your exceptional creative skills to edit and transform our assets into engaging content (videos, graphics, audio, text) for all of our social media platforms. Our success has stemmed from the fact that all recipes are tested, filmed, photographed and written by us. We simply need someone to use their editing and creative skills to curate it into social media formats.

You are so exceptionally well-organized and capable of multitasking that you can take mountains of existing content while simultaneously dealing with new content and create a smooth-running social media and content calendar with ease.

We want to ensure that those applying understand that you will never be shooting photos or videos, we will provide these assets.

Your primary role will be to create compelling visuals using Canva, or similar tools to promote the content we are providing. This includes editing our videos for social media platforms and creating social media content with our recipe photos.

Responsibilities:

- Create a social media strategy and content calendar using the assets provided.
- Collaborate with the business owner to align social media efforts with overall marketing campaigns.
- Monitor social media channels for trends,



reader feedback, and engagement opportunities.
- Write, edit and create social media posts including reels, stories, YouTube shorts and others using our assets which can include but are not limited to scripts, audio files, video files and photography.
- Creating / Editing videos for social media platforms (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, etc) using our assets.
- Stay up to date with the latest social media trends and best practices.
- Write and schedule email marketing campaigns using A/B testing to improve open and click rates.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or equivalent education.
- 2+ years of experience in social media management or content creation.
- Strong understanding of social media platforms and their algorithms.
- Excellent writing and communication skills.
- Creative and visually appealing design skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong attention to detail and organization.
- Passion for food and cooking.
- Video editing knowledge using traditional mobile and desktop editing software such as Capcut, Canva, Premiere Pro etc. (this is required) You will be asked to supply sample work. Please only apply if qualified.
- Ability to attend weekly meetings within the city of Edmonton. Applicants must reside in Edmonton or surrounding areas to apply.

Job Type: Full time Pay: $55,000.00-$65,000.00 per year

Benefits

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Vision care
- Work from home

Experience:
- video editing: 1 year (required)

Location:
- Edmonton, AB (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Edmonton, AB

📌 Social Media Manager (Edmonton)
🏢 The Kitchen Magpie
📍 Edmonton