Kate Middleton and William share ‘exciting opportunity’ to work at Kensington Palace |  Royal |  News

Kate Middleton and William share ‘exciting opportunity’ to work at Kensington Palace | Royal | News

The vacancy describes the ideal candidate as someone who can handle sensitive information “with tact and discretion” at all times. The role was posted this week on the Duke and Duchess from the Cambridge website.

The lucky candidate will be hired for the role described as an “exciting opportunity” to manage the couple’s Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube accounts.

The position will bring many opportunities such as getting started at the historic Kensington Palace and overseeing the royal couple’s massive social media presence.

The job is advertised as just under 38 hours a week and will be a permanent position with the title Digital Communications Officer.

The job’s responsibilities include working with the Royal Communications Team to “form and manage” the royal couple’s social media.

Ideal candidates would be someone with extensive experience working on ‘high profile’ social media accounts and someone skilled in photography, videography and editing.

The job will be to manage the royal family’s social media channels, including Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have over 2.4 million followers on Twitter and over 13.9 million followers on Instagram.

It means that anyone who takes on the role of directing the royals’ social media presence will be posting to a massive audience.

Last year, Prince William and Kate set up their YouTube channel a year ago and they have over 600,000 subscribers.

Their videos give the general public a personal insight into behind-the-scenes footage of royal performances, world tours and public speeches.

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The Duke and Duchess will be looking for someone with significant social media experience as the potential candidate will work with the royal couple’s many charities.

A salary for the Digital Lead is currently not available on the vacancy.

The vacancy is open until August 2 and closes at 11:55 PM.