new media officer has started

came from 3-4 year stint in similar role at Halifax , an Ully-Gully

Seems to have been a hot potato of a role of late, hope he settles in and proves a valuable asset.

Anyone taking bets on how long he will last as there has been quite a turnover in that department.

Simpson eh?

Who did all these jobs when Fenty. was in charge  ?

Decent haircut. Can't see any pics with him wearing properly polished shoes but he looks the sort.

Best of luck to the lad. Welcome to the Mariners Ed.

You'd expect he'd be using the role to grow his experience and move on as soon as possible given the wage on offer. Was it around 24k? sodomist that.

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Who did all these jobs when Fenty. was in charge  ?

Hopefully, the new guy won't write his press releases late at night when merlot-fuelled.

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You'd expect he'd be using the role to grow his experience and move on as soon as possible given the wage on offer. Was it around 24k? sodomist that.

And this is how it's always going to be.

Every time that role is advertised there's near universal condemnation of the salary on offer.

I guess the expectation and understanding from the club is that it's high risk of a quick turnover rate.  These lads (or lasses) will come in, get a bit more experience, exposure, build up some more contacts and then move on.  We get the benefit of fresh eyes and ideas in frequently but no stability and continuity.  Stockwood has spoken previously, on more than one occasion, that he wants people to leave for bigger and better things because it means the club are doing things right.  I'm fully on board with that.

In some ways it's not too far away from the approach to the playing staff.  Get people in who can help you move forward a little bit, knowing that if they're successful they'll move on.  Difference to the playing staff and non-playing staff is whilst the former will hopefully generate you a transfer fee which you can reinvest, the non-playing staff don't.  But they might move the dial a little as an organisation overall, hopefully generating more income...in term we can play better wages further down the line and attract better candidates etc. etc. etc.

The low wage approach sits very uncomfortably with me and it still surprises me when we look at what 1878 say they're about.  But I can see the logic and long-term approach to it.

Unless the club reverses their very un-B-corp stance of paying just over minimum wage for this role (which involves working unsociable hours, long distance travel and creating content and communications which go out through the club's official accounts) there'll continue to be a high turnover in the role. The club clearly know they can rely on an unending stream of young kids, probably a few months on from graduating in BA (Hons) Football Business & Media at UCFB, who want to break into the football industry, and as such can get away with offering such a paltry salary as they use the role as a stepping stone (like the last guy, who's left and gone to Newcastle, who'd you'd hope with all their blood/oil money are paying more than £24k a year to their Media & Comms employees).