Women's Marketing and Communications Lead - London, United Kingdom - Charlton Athletic Women's Football Club

Description

Position:
Women's Marketing and Communications Lead


Location:
Sparrows Lane Training Ground, South East London or as required


Salary 28,000 pa


Hours:
FTE Mon-Fri +matchdays


About Us:

Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Charlton, south-east London.

The club was founded on June 9th, 1905 and has a very storied history from rising to the top-flight of English Football in the 1930s (First Division) and again in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, to winning the FA Cup in 1947 and to leaving their Valley home in the mid-1980s only to make an impassioned return in 1992.

Historically, the women's team played under Charlton Athletic from 2000 to 2007 but were released to become an independently run team in 2007 following the men's team's relegation from the Premier League.

The women's team were originally formed as a non-professional team in 1991 and were highly successful in the early 2000s winning The FA Cup, the League Cup, and the Charity Shield, as well as coming runners-up in the top division in multiple seasons.

In February 2021, the club acquired the Charlton Athletic Women's team, turning the team full-time professional, and integrating them to become one club again.

Currently, our men's first team competes in League One, the third tier of English football, and our women's team competes in the Women's Championship, the second highest division of women's football in England.

At Charlton, we are 'one club' and can be truly described as a 'family club'.


Role Description:

The marketing promotion of Charlton Athletic Women in The FA Women's Championship, The Women's FA Cup and the League Cup with the overall objectives to increase fanbase, including match day attendance and engage fans with an exciting and memorable match day experience.

Be an advocate and guardian of the women's game.


Key Responsibilities:


Responsibilities will include:

• Introducing fanbased programmes, events and initiatives to appeal to league supporters of all ages and encourage their attendance at matches
• Creating marketing plans which specifically target girls who play football aiming to grow attendances of this audience as well as considering new target audiences within the club's local community
• Oversee the delivery of social engagement activity and ingame match coverage across relevant Club Social channels including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
• Working collaboratively with the County FA (CFA) to engage with local clubs & plan and deliver prematch events for local girls' clubs e.g. tournaments/ coaching sessions etc.
• Oversee the implementation of FA national marketing campaigns at a local level to increase awareness and attendance at home games as well as supporting FA campaigns for the national teams
• Support The FA national marketing team to deliver joint objectives and attend bimonthly marketing meetings (held at different venues across the country)
• Overseeing player appearances to drive awareness of the club locally and nationally
• Responsible for creating and overseeing the implementation of exciting and engaging matchday experiences for fans. This should include prematch and halftime entertainment, competitions for fans and unique experiences
• Oversee research with fans to understand insights and motivations for attending games. Use of these insights to further drive supporters of the club with marketing activity
• Attending all games for the club (on evenings and weekends) in order to oversee the matchday experiences for fans and gauge fan reaction

Education/Qualifications/Training:

• Qualifications in marketing, communications or similar
• Experience within marketing of events
• Full, valid, clean drivers licence (D);

Abilities/Skills/Knowledge:

• Ability to manage people
• Good organisational skills;
• Good time keeping skills;
• To be flexible and adaptable to change in a fastpaced environment;
• Good interpersonal skills with strong stakeholder ethos;
• Actively cooperate and communicate with others, fostering a culture of teamwork and collaboration;
• Positive about achieving Club, departmental and individual success;
• Proactively take on new responsibilities and seek out opportunities to learn new skills;
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, often under pressure, and under own initiative.

Additional Information:

• This a full time role that includes work on weekends and evenings;
• Applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK;
• Charlton Athletic FC is committed to following relevant health & safety regulations and all members of staff are expected to be fully aware and adhere to, at all times, the Club's H&S and fire safety procedures;
• Charlton Athletic Football Club are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment;
• CAFC is committed to the principle of equal opportunity an