Job Description

Please note: Your application will not be considered without submitting a cover letter and including your notice period.

Are you a good fit?

You want to work with a highly respected and aspirational brand, at the heart of a network of many of the UK’s leading figures and employers. 

You know that technology has a significant role to play, but that human interaction and relationships are of even greater importance.

You want to feel like a valued member of a growing team, in an organisation which recognises that that its people are not just a number, but its greatest asset and part of an extended family, working together to support each other to meet organisational and not just individual goals.

Ideal candidates will be looking for a demanding post in a fast moving entrepreneurial charity. This is an exciting time to join our team as we take Speakers for Schools to the next level. Multi tasking ability a must.

You should be sociable and confident and happy building and maintaining relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders

What is Speakers for Schools?

Founded by ITV Political Editor Robert Peston (Trustee), and chaired by Andrew Law (Caxton Associates), Speakers for Schools was created to help level the playing field for UK state schools and their students by giving them the same access to the UK’s leading figures from politics, business, science, sport, the arts and more, as that enjoyed by private schools.

Bill Gates, Baroness (Martha) Lane Fox, Professor Brian Cox, David Dein, David Cameron, Natalie Bennett, Ed Balls, Naomi Campbell and over two thousand other influential, eminent and inspirational people, have been kind enough to volunteer their time to speak with Speakers for Schools. Almost a million Young People have attended a Speakers for Schools talk.

In 2016, we launched our Experience Programme. Experience works with our outstanding network of speakers and partner employers, to offer young people, amazing work experience opportunities, which would often be out of reach to them.

Our Experience Programme has more than trebled in impact since September as employers such as the Bank of England, M&C Saatchi, Disney, Spotify, Santander, Morgan Sindal, BA, BP, Cisco and others offer placements to thousands of Young People. In March we launched a ground-breaking virtual work experience programme in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hours: This role will be full-time (37.5 hours) & Permanent. 

Location: We are currently working from home.  This role will be based at our London office (near City Thameslink), but you will only be required to work from the office for up to 50% of your working week once the pandemic is over.

Application deadline: Please see below regarding notifications and start date.

Main purpose of the role:

• To support the charity’s marketing, communications and branding strategy to open up access for young people to reach their career potential.
• Promoting our Work Experience programme (Experience) and our School talks Programme (Inspiration) and one further programme to be launched at the end of September.
• Support the fundraising team to identify and acquire donations
• Working as a team player with a problem solving attitude, detailed orientated and loves working in fast paced dynamic environments

Main duties & responsibilities: 

• Managing the social media accounts (Twitter, Linkedin, Youtubem Vimeo andInstgram). This involves preparing the content calendar, scheduling posts, writing blog articles, managing the community responses and building followers.
• Managing the website content and wordpress CMS to update the website (News, blog articles and general content)
• Monitoring and providing reports on our googleanalytics, website, social platforms etc)
• Attending and leading meetings
• Tracking marketing expenditure (Excel budget management)
• Creating PR articles and building a media network towards expanding our media impact
• Brand guardian - Quality Control of content, images, branding, copy, pr, reputation
• Contribution to plans, strategies, commpacks and how to guides to support the Marketing teams objectives and activities
• Presenting to team and external stakeholders (Powerpoint)
• Supporting the generation of testimonials, ratings, surveys (In various formats, video, written, imagery etc.)
• Events and campaign marketing
• Email marketing: Mailchimp newsletter creation, management, sending and reports
• Supporting the adwords account (Learning on the job is fine)
• Abiding safeguarding policies, process and practise

We are looking for:

Education and Qualifications

Essential: 

• 5+ years full time marketing and communications experience

Desirable: 

• Degree in Marketing, Business or Design

Experience

Essential: 

• Basic level creative skills, eg: photography, photoshop
• Social media management and marketing 
• Writing marketing and implementation plans
• Writing articles (Pr, content, technical) 
• Managing marketing budgets
• Email marketing – the use of Mailchimp
• Brand management – following and enforcing brand guidelines 
• Digital marketing

Desirable

• Design experience with Indesign, illustrator and premiere highly desired but not required.
• An understanding in tech startup culture, wireframes, apps, and tech development desired but not required.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Office (Words, excel/csv, pdf editor, collaborative docs, powerpoint)
• Public relations and managing partners
• Confident is using Vimeo, Youtube, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagramfor a marketing (not personal) capacity
• Wordpress CMS management

Desirable

• Creative cloud adobe software
• Other CMS management systems a plus

Personal qualities

Essential

• Able to communicate and respect diverse teams
• A natural leadership style, able to gain respect and work as a team player with a range of people
• Genuine, down to earth nature
• Strong organisational skills and a collaborative approach
• Positive, hands-on approach, highly motivated with drive to achieve success.
• High degree of ethics and professional standards

We are looking for people who:

• Are sociable and confident and happy building and maintaining relationships with multiple stakeholders
• Excel at organising their workload and enjoy driving work forward independently
• Think strategically and can change tactics while still meeting larger objectives

You will be working directly with:

Reports to Chief Marketing Officer

To work with Campaigns and Comms Manager, Content Manager, Creative Designer, Events Manager, Events Officer as well as wider team.

How to Apply:

Please apply as soon as possible submitting your CV and a one page covering letter which outlines your specific interest and ability to successfully fill this role, as well as your salary expectations and current notice period.

Please make it clear in your cover letter what previous experience you have working with Salesforce. 

Please note, if you do not provide a covering letter your application will not be considered.

Appointees are subject to a successful DBS check, as contact with young people is likely.

The Journey to joining Speakers for Schools:

Interviews will be scheduled as applications are received, before the closing date, and will take place over Microsoft Teams. We may appoint before this date depending on applications.

We will be closing this on or before Friday 28th August.

Our new team member will start ASAP.

Reference ID: Marketing Manager

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £40,000.00 to £45,000.00 /year