Marketing Officer

City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (Hybrid)

£31K/yr – £36K/yrMid LevelTemporary

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive integrated marketing campaigns that amplify the voices of children and families, co-produce content with young people, and grow the organisation’s digital presence across website, email, and social channels.

  • Lead multi-channel campaigns and co-produced content
  • Shape communications through direct involvement of children, families and communities
  • Grow and optimise digital presence with data-driven insights

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Deliver integrated marketing campaigns that amplify the voices of children and families and inspire positive change.
  • Lead the creation and promotion of co-produced content including films, animations, stories, social media content and publications.
  • Build trusted relationships with children, young people and families, ensuring their experiences shape our communications and campaigns.
  • Manage and grow Children First's digital presence through website, email and social media channels, using insight and analytics to improve engagement.
  • Champion the Children First brand, ensuring all content is accessible, inclusive, ethical and consistent across channels.

Requirements

  • Experience delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns and developing compelling content for a range of audiences
  • Experience working collaboratively with children, young people, families or communities to co-produce content and campaigns
  • Strong copywriting, communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams
  • Experience using digital marketing tools including CMS platforms, email marketing systems, video editing and design software
  • A full driving licence and access to a vehicle for work-related travel or the ability to travel independently to locations not always served by public transport

Preferred

  • - Experience using Adobe Illustrator or other design software
  • - Experience of working in the voluntary sector
  • - Ability to listen, discuss and negotiate and provide advice on difficult/complex/ sensitive issues
  • - Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • - Ability to work and make decisions both independently and collaboratively
  • - Able to work to deadlines while managing a wide and varied workload using strong organisational skills
  • - Ability to assimilate information and recognise the importance of attention to detail
  • - Confident and able to form effective and credible relationships with all levels of staff
  • - Strong relationship-building, engagement and partnership skills.
  • - Knowledge of current trends and new techniques in marketing

Benefits

  • A workplace with values of with love, with purpose and with strength
  • 40 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays
  • Pension scheme and wellbeing support
  • Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
  • Access to Westfield Health, giving colleagues and their families confidential counselling support, wellbeing resources, and access to health and lifestyle benefits to support physical and mental wellbeing.
  • Blue Light card discount
  • A Fair Work accredited workplace
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Children First

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Children First is Scotland’s national children’s charity. We stand up for children, keep them safe and support them to recover from trauma and abuse through our national and local services.

Edinburgh, Scotland, GBR
276 employees (8 in marketing)
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Salaries

Posted range

£31K/yr – £36K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range (£33K) is 26% below the median base salary for Marketing Manager roles in the United Kingdom (£45K).

Marketing Manager median pay in the United Kingdom

£45K/yr

Most pay falls between £40K and £55K. Based on 165 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
8 (3% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.9K

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~276
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Marketing Officer

Children First · City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK · Hybrid