Digital Marketing Executive

Buckingham, Milton Keynes, UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 6 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and drive the university's social media strategy and content across channels, focusing on student recruitment and broader engagement; plan and optimize organic and paid campaigns using audience insights and performance data, with room for experimentation and cross-team collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • help shape how the University connects with its audiences through social media.
  • work as part of the Digital team and supporting the Digital Experience Manager, you’ll help deliver the University’s social media marketing strategy - creating engaging, creative and purposeful content that reaches prospective students and supports them throughout their journey with us.
  • play a hands-on role in planning and delivering both organic and paid social media activity, using audience insight, creativity and performance data to make our campaigns more effective.
  • you’ll have the opportunity to experiment with new approaches, understand what works, and continually improve the way we use social media to achieve our objectives.
  • your work will primarily support student recruitment, while also helping us engage current students, staff, academics, alumni, our local community and the wider public.
  • work collaboratively with colleagues across the University to turn ideas, stories and priorities into compelling digital content and campaigns.
  • you’ll combine creative thinking with a data-driven approach. You’ll be comfortable developing content for different social platforms, contributing to campaigns from planning through to evaluation, and using insight and performance metrics to inform what you do next.

Requirements

  • demonstrable professional experience of planning, creating and delivering organic and paid social media campaigns, ideally gained within a digital marketing environment.
  • experience creating engaging content for social platforms, using audience insight and performance data to inform activity, and evaluating and optimising campaigns to achieve marketing objectives.
  • a degree or equivalent professional experience is desirable.

Preferred

  • A degree or equivalent professional experience is desirable.

Benefits

  • We might be small, but we can still offer plenty of perks! In addition to an Aviva Pension scheme, we offer:
  • Beautiful working environment at our campus in Buckingham
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Christmas closure
  • On-site gym and exercise classes
  • On-site catering facilities
  • Free on-site parking
  • Excellent opportunities to network and continue learning across a variety of departments
  • Discount of courses for staff and their families
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A home for independent thinkers, The University of Buckingham is ranked Top 5 for Lecturers & Teaching Quality and Top 10 for Student Support (Whatuni Student Choice Awards, 2025). We have always done things differently at Buckingham. Back in 1983, we became the first University to introduce two-year degrees and have been perfecting them ever since. Buckingham is one of the few universities in the UK that offers September and January start dates for almost all courses. We believe in academic excellence, delivered at pace in an independent and free-thinking environment. We were founded on a vision of academic freedom and our belief in the importance of passing these traditions on to future generations. Our students form a thriving community of independent thinkers from countries all over the world. Our University is proudly independent and not-for-profit, and offer courses in Allied Health, Business, Computing, Education, Humanities, Law, Medicine, Psychology and Security and Intelligence. Buckingham also launched the UK’s first private Medical School, which secured General Medical Council (GMC) accreditation. The GMC commended us for our ‘excellent professional, academic and pastoral support that extends throughout the University and clinical learning environments’. At Buckingham, students receive an individualised and supportive learning experience, focused on small tutorials and seminars, where academics and students can engage in authentic dialogue and test their ideas. We believe in a high-quality education, delivered with passion and focus on imparting useful and relevant knowledge. Our beautiful riverside campus in Buckingham is only 20 minutes from Milton Keynes Central Station and a short drive from Bicester, Aylesbury, Banbury and Northampton. There is free parking on-site, and we are within easy reach of London and Oxford.

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Digital Marketing Executive

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