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Hire a Social Media Manager.

Posts planned, made, published and answered.

Also called: Social Media Assistant, Social Media Specialist, Social Media Virtual Assistant

From £4.50 an hour£4.50-20.50/hr

  • E-commerce
  • Media & creators
  • Coaches & info products
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Social Media Manager gets doneSample day
  • Builds a monthly content calendar from agreed pillarsStrategy and planning
  • Writes hooks, captions, carousels and LinkedIn postsContent creation
  • Schedules and publishes across platformsPublishing and profile management
  • Responds to comments and DMs within the agreed SLACommunity and engagementDoing
In your tools
  • Hootsuite
  • Buffer
  • Meta Business Suite
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • TikTok

Pick the level. See the price.

£8an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Social Media Manager£8/hr
At least 50% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns 1-3 accounts end to end with light review.

  • Monthly content calendar
  • Original carousels and graphics
  • 4-8 edited short-form videos per month

2-4 years running one or more brand accounts end to end.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your Social Media Manager

Tasks

  • Strategy and planning

    • Builds a monthly content calendar from agreed pillars
    • Audits profiles and key competitors each quarter
    • Plans campaign moments

  • Content creation

    • Writes hooks, captions, carousels and LinkedIn posts
    • Designs static and carousel posts in Canva or Figma to brand guidelines
    • Edits short-form vertical video in CapCut or Premiere Pro
    • Repurposes podcasts, webinars and blogs into clips and posts
    • Ghostwrites founder posts from voice notes and short interviews

  • Publishing and profile management

    • Schedules and publishes across platforms
    • Optimises bios, highlights, pinned posts, link-in-bio and shop tagging

  • Community and engagement

    • Responds to comments and DMs within the agreed SLA
    • Runs proactive engagement blocks on target accounts

  • Analytics and optimisation

    • Reports monthly on reach, engagement rate, follower growth
    • Runs structured tests on hooks, formats, lengths and posting times

  • Collaboration

    • Briefs and coordinates UGC creators, influencers and photographers
    • Hands top-performing organic posts to the paid team

Tested before you meet them

  1. Hooks, captions and responses testAll levels40 min
  2. Design and short-form edit practicalAll levels1.5 hrs
  3. Scheduling and calendar QAIntern to Expert30 min
  4. 30-day content strategyIntermediate and up3 hrs
  5. Analytics interpretationIntermediate and up30 min
  6. Negative post and crisis role-playIntermediate and up25 min

One score on every profileSample shown

88%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Social Media Manager is £4.50 an hour, Intermediate £8, Expert £12.50 and Specialist £20.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Strategy and planning, content creation, publishing and profile management and community and engagement, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including hooks, captions and responses test, design and short-form edit practical and scheduling and calendar QA. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Social Media Manager works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your Social Media Manager works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Social Media Manager owns 1-3 accounts end to end with light review. An Expert Social Media Manager owns social outcomes, sets platform strategy and runs a founder's personal brand. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Social Media Manager is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Later and Hootsuite, before you meet them.

In week one: scheduling tool seat created and all profiles connected; brand kit, tone-of-voice guide, banned words and claims list; and asset library shared in Google Drive or Dropbox. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Social Media Assistant, Social Media Specialist and Social Media Virtual Assistant. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

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Meet the people who fit your work.

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