Marketing and Events Assistant

Responsibilities

• What you'll be doing:
• Marketing
• Social media and content: Create, adapt and schedule engaging content across social media channels, while monitoring performance, audience engagement and emerging platform trends
• Email marketing: Support the creation and distribution of regular Nesta newsletters and email outreach, while monitoring performance and maintaining audience data
• Campaigns: Support the planning, delivery and reporting of marketing campaigns across digital channels, helping coordinate activity, assets, timelines and performance analysis
• Employee advocacy: Maintain the employee advocacy platform, updating the tool with relevant content and distributing internal communications to support engagement
• Reporting: Update dashboard stats across Nesta, podcast, and web analytics (GA4) regularly and support with BAU and campaign reporting
• Podcast: Alongside podcast programming tasks, support podcast social scheduling, web uploads and general promotional activity
• Events Marketing
• Support email marketing campaigns and outreach efforts to engage audiences

Requirements

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to confidently interact with colleagues, external speakers, guests and stakeholders
• Proven effective time management skills, capable of prioritising and managing multiple tasks efficiently
• Exceptional attention to detail, particularly when proofreading and preparing public-facing materials
• Demonstrated problem-solving abilities, including effectively addressing queries and knowing when and where to escalate issues
• Comfortable and effective working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Curious about the changing communications and marketing landscape, from social media trends and emerging platforms to new ways of reaching audiences.
• A genuine interest in gaining hands-on experience and developing a career in communications

Preferred

• Experience in using the following software and systems would be advantageous: Google Suite, Salesforce, Wagtail, Eventsforce, Canva, Streamyard, Sprout Social, Mailchimp
• a proven ability in (or enthusiasm to learn) web publishing

Benefits

• Salary: Circa £29,300 plus an array of benefits including private medical insurance, dental insurance, the ability to buy and sell annual leave, eye care vouchers and more
• Flexibility: This is a full-time role but we offer a range of flexible working arrangements and encourage our people to take advantage of them. Many do.