Digital Marketing Lead

Bristol, UK (Unknown)

£32K/yr – £35K/yrMid LevelPermanent

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own digital channels and campaigns to drive student recruitment and engagement across owned, paid, and social touchpoints.

  • Plan and optimise website, recruitment campaigns, and paid/organic channels to attract students.
  • Lead inclusive, engaging content across programmatic, social, email, and out-of-home contexts.
  • Translate ideas to execution with data-driven testing and multi-format content production.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • From planning recruitment campaigns to optimising our website, paid and organic channels, you’ll play a key role in helping students discover and choose our college.
  • You’ll take the lead in managing and optimising our digital channels, delivering impactful B2C campaigns, and ensuring our content is accessible, inclusive, and engaging for all audiences.
  • If you’re someone who thrives in bringing ideas to execution, and comfortable with a range of content production types for use across out of home advertising, programmatic, socials, email marketing and more we’d love to hear from you.
  • We’re looking for a creative, data-driven Digital Marketing Lead to help grow our student recruitment and engagement programmes.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in digital marketing, preferably within education or public sector
  • Experience delivering integrated campaigns with measurable outcomes
  • Practical knowledge and deliverability across key digital marketing channels including:
  • Website/content management systems (CMS)
  • Social media and email platforms
  • B2C Paid media and paid social advertising
  • SEO and GEO(Google Search console, SEMrush)
  • Understanding of:
  • Accessibility standards (WCAG)
  • GDPR and ethical data use
  • Ability to interpret data and translate into actionable insights((GA4, Search Console, Google Tag Manager, Social analytics, SEMrush))
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to write for diverse audiences

Preferred

  • Desirable experience
  • Experience in student recruitment marketing
  • Experience producing digital and print graphic design and multimedia content(Adobe suite, Canva, Video production)
  • Personal attributes
  • Student-focused, with a passion for improving access to education
  • Organised, honest and detail-oriented
  • Creative, proactive, and solutions-focused
  • Adaptable and confident using emerging technologies (including AI)
ST BRENDAN'S SIXTH FORM COLLEGE logo

ST BRENDAN'S SIXTH FORM COLLEGE

St Brendan's Sixth Form College is a Catholic College for the Community and one of only two sixth form colleges in the South West. The College is located between Bristol and Bath and enjoys a pleasant, secure site where students can enjoy learning in a campus style environment.The facilities at the College are excellent having mostly been rebuilt in recent years with a £21 million investment in buildings and equipment. The College has consistently above average results with a record of success for adding value to students grades.The spiritual life of the College allows all students of faith and no faith to explore who they are and to understand and respect others and their beliefs. A wide range of courses are avialable and students can study them in any combination in a supportive environment.

Founded in 1979
Bristol, England, GBR
165 employees (9 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
14.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
60.3%
Direct
31.2%
Referral
6.1%
Social
2.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~165

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
9 (5% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2