Marketing Assistant

Lancaster, Lancashire, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableEntry LevelFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own integrated marketing delivery with a focus on content, digital presence, and campaigns that move awareness to leads.

  • Growth Engine: plan content, campaigns and optimise performance across blogs, social, email, and PPC.
  • Digital Presence: manage social media, website content, and brand messaging across digital and print.
  • Analytics & Insights: measure with Google Analytics and translate data into action for campaigns and launches.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Deliver integrated marketing campaigns aligned with Ascentis standards and regulatory requirements
  • Monitor competitor activity and identify sector award opportunities
  • Coordinate and promote initiatives such as the IDL Learner Awards
  • Manage and grow IDL’s digital presence (social media, website content, email marketing)
  • Plan and deliver engaging content, schedule campaigns, and optimise performance to drive awareness, engagement and lead generation
  • Develop creative assets and compelling copy across blogs, landing pages, podcasts, and PPC campaigns
  • Maintain high-quality, consistent brand messaging across digital and print materials
  • Collaborate with internal teams to produce and promote resources, support product launches, and keep collateral fresh
  • Analyse and report on marketing performance using tools like Google Analytics; generate insights and provide recommendations
  • Support customer engagement by assisting with review generation and communications with existing customers
  • Attend events and conferences to support marketing activities and occasional travel/extended hours as needed

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 GCSEs (Grade 9 – 4)
  • Solid IT skills, including Microsoft Office
  • Understanding of social media and digital marketing channels (hands-on experience desirable)
  • Understanding of hybrid working pattern and 35 hours per week
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Preferred

  • Experience with social media and digital marketing channels (hands-on)
  • Design (Adobe Creative Suite) and video content creation (desirable)
  • Education or training sector experience (desirable)

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays, birthday day off, closure days gifted during the Christmas period, increased annual leave with long service and an Annual Leave Purchase Scheme (up to a maximum of 43 days)
  • Competitive pension benefits, including a salary sacrifice scheme
  • Access to Informal Flexibility, allowing you to flex your working times and location where viable
  • Incremental service benefits as a family-friendly employer, including enhanced Maternity, Neonatal, Paternity, Shared Parental, Adoption Leave and Pay, Sick Pay, Life Insurance, and Paid Compassionate Leave
  • Access to state-of-the-art office and break facilities, such as bean-to-cup coffee machine, vending machine, pool table, Xbox, outdoor seating, dressing room (with access to hair dryers, straighteners, airers, shower facilities), Harry Potter reading room, employee library and more
  • Free parking, locked bike storage shed
  • Access to car electric charging points (charges payable by employee)
  • Tailored learning and development opportunities
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Home and Tech Scheme
  • Discounted gym membership at 3-1-5 Health Club
  • 24-hour employee helpline and a proactive focus on wellbeing
  • Aviva DigiCare+ health app with access to virtual GP appointments, annual health check and more
  • Reward and recognition scheme, regular team building and communication activities
  • Do you like the sound of Ascentis, but think your skills might suit another role? We also have other vacancies available. Take a look at our website for more! www.ascentis.co.uk/jobs
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Ascentis

We make companies flow, inside and out.Ascentis is a digital strategy and execution firm that helps organisations regain clarity, rhythm and coherence in the way they work. We simplify what’s become overcomplicated, align systems with people, and turn strategy into something that actually gets built.Most companies don’t fail because of a lack of ambition, but because complexity eats their time, their focus, and their energy. That’s where we step in. Ascentis rebuilds the logic behind how companies operate, through smarter processes, clearer tools, and teams that finally move together.We’re not an agency, not a consultancy, not a dev shop. We’re what was missing between the three, a structure that listens deeply, questions everything, and delivers solutions that last.Our method is simple but never simplisticQuestion, remove, optimise, automate.When a project ends, everything breathes again. The systems align, decisions make sense, and people regain time and meaning in their work.We believe technology is not the product, it’s the lever.We build systems that work, so people can too.

Paris, Île-de-France, FRA
5 employees

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
7
Traffic Source Mix
Search
47.7%
Direct
31.7%
Referral
13.4%
Social
4.6%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6

Marketing Team

Median Career Experience
24 years
Median Tenure
0.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1