Marketing Assistant - Durham, United Kingdom - North East England Chamber of Commerce

North East England Chamber of Commerce

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Durham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role:
Marketing Assistant

Based:
Durham plus hybrid working

Department:
Marketing, Comms and Events

Employment Basis:
Permanent

Working Hours:35 hours per week Monday Friday

Salary:
£22,000 plus Chamber benefits

Role Overview
We are seeking to recruit a Marketing Assistant to join our fantastic Marketing, Comms and Events team.

This is an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate or individual who is looking to begin their career in marketing.

This is a great opportunity to be part of a passionate, hard-working, results driven team to help grow our following, increase brand awareness and to increase engagement with our members across our social channels.

What Youll Be Doing

Preevent promotion and social media scheduling for our rolling events programme.
Pre event preparation and support, name badges, attendee registrations, arranging marketing collateral etc.
On the day event support, engaging directly with attendees on social media posting from the Chamber account to profile event and replying to social members posts.
Postevent marketing, posting albums to social channels, tagging and mentioning members, and social moderation.
Increase engagement with members social content by sharing member news, offers and events across various social channels and looking for new ways and ideas to engage our following.
Assist with social media campaigns across various channels for all departments.
Finding and following members, increasing engagement with existing members across social channels.
Support with daytoday management of the website, uploading news articles, sharing press releases, blog posts, and user management.
Lead point of contact for adhoc requests from membership team relating to members news, offers, events, sharing posts on social and website queries.
To Champion social media within the Chamber, including supporting colleagues on how to use it and managing the Chambers group social networks on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

What We Need To See
The Chamber team is passionate about North East England, our business community and our members. We work hard to achieve outcomes for our business and our members.

Skills and experience are important but what is important above all else is character and willingness to learn and achieve.

It is vitally important that we find the right person who fits into our beliefs and culture here at the Chamber.

Some of the other skills and experience that we are looking for include:

A minimum of 5 GCSEs or equivalent including Math and English
Educated to degree standard or equivalent
Excellent organisational skills
Customer orientated and focused
Strong social media skills
Project management skills
Attention to detail
Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload
Effective communication and interpersonal skills both verbal and written
Proof of building on social networking platforms
Proficient in IT systems including Microsoft packages
Must have use of a car and hold a current driving licence

Other:

Work flexible hours and locations
Drive and enthusiasm in supporting our members and the North East business community

What Weve Got To Offer
We have a great culture at the Chamber and supporting a healthy work life balance is important to us.

We actively promote a professional, engaging, friendly and supportive environment, with our people and our members at the heart of everything we do.

We offer several benefits including:

25 days annual leave, increasing with each year of service up to 30 days + public holidays each year.
Life assurance fourtimes basic salary.
Contribution to one professional membership each year.
Hospital treatment plan provided through Westfield Health.
A motivating, encouraging environment to work in learning and development opportunities.
Flexible working supporting work life balance, with a mix of home and office working.
Salary exchange pension scheme with 4% Chamber contributions.
Long service awards.
Salary sacrifice schemes, such as: cycle to work and car leasing.
Health cash plan paid by the Chamber and provided by Westfield Health.
Colleague events including summer social and Christmas party.
Employee assistance programme.

**How To Apply