Social Media Content Creator – Level 4 - City of Wolverhampton College

Social Media Content Creator – Level 4

Social Media

Content Creator - Level 4 

Social media is an essential part of daily life and, increasingly, businesses use it to promote their products and services to their online audiences.

This free, four-week course, delivered by BlackRook Academy will enable you to develop true expertise and learn every aspect of social media marketing across platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, X, YouTube and Instagram.


You will also gain relevant and deep knowledge of social strategy, research and content from industry skills experts and be guaranteed a job interview at the end of the course.

This course is funded by the West Midlands Combined Authority.

Get in touch on 01902 837191 / 01902 317710

or email employability@wolvcoll.ac.uk

lecturer showing student how to film video

About BlackRook Academy

Our coaching team is staffed by twelve expert lecturers, all of them active media industry professionals.


We work with employers who have live vacancies across the Midlands. All of our learners get the chance to film and edit in these businesses as content creators.


At the end of the course, our learners present their work and every candidate is guaranteed at least one interview for paid work.

We have successfully placed our learners into employment with the following businesses:

  • The Mount Hotel and Golf 
  • Royston & Lung Estate Agents
  • Pouches.co.uk
  • CS Labels
  • Round Oak Interiors
  • Goya Spa
  • The Robin 2
  • Zanzo Facilities
  • and many more...

We also work with self employed candidates who want to promote a service or product.

Phil Armstrong, an author from Wolverhampton, used the skills we taught him to sell tens of thousands of books while he was still on our course. Now using his newly acquired Content Creator knowledge, he's increased that number to more than half a million books sold. Click on the video link below to learn more about Phil's story.

Blackrook Academy workshop participants
Course tutors Philip Armstrong and Joe Albanese

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