Culture and Tourism Graduate
North East Lincolnshire Council
Full Time
25878 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Culture and Tourism Graduate
Job description
Culture and Tourism Graduate Vacancy
24 month fixed term; Starting the 1st September 2023
Are you due to Graduate this year or did you Graduate last year? Then this scheme could be right for you…
Who We Are
At North East Lincolnshire Council, we have a unique ability to provide the ultimate work life balance for our employees. Situated within the award-winning coastal area of Cleethorpes and the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds, North East Lincolnshire Council provide the perfect location for you to Live, Work & Play.
Our Vision & Purpose
To create a stronger economy and stronger communities and improve the lives of our people.
Our Values
- Valuing People
- Honesty
- Striving for Continuous Improvement
- Openness
- Commitment
- Behaving with Integrity
The Role & Team
The Economy and Growth Team – Culture and Tourism are responsible for supporting the regeneration of our town centres, creating vibrant places to live and visit with a strong culture and leisure offer. Working with businesses, investors, developers, and delivery partners, our aim is to create an environment where businesses thrive and create high quality jobs for our residents, and we have a year-round tourism sector, which benefits our communities and attracts visitors to the whole region.
Part of this specific role will be to work with the Council’s Culture, Leisure, Heritage and Tourism Team, whose role is to promote North East Lincolnshire’s cultural and tourism offer to local people and visitors, encouraging people to participate in culture and heritage activities and attracting higher levels of visits and stays in the area. The Tourism Team also manages events at the Meridian Showground in Cleethorpes, where a wide range of events take place.
Your Responsibilities
To support the Culture, Leisure, Heritage and Tourism Team responsibilities will include:
- Marketing activities including creating new campaigns, and direct mail support.
- Digital marketing including writing, researching, and uploading new website content (for DiscoverNEL and other NELC channels), supporting with Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and analytics.
- Supporting with social media, creating new content, research into new channels and developing new ways of working.
- Support with developing new visitor experiences and packages to attract new markets.
- Event management support, including keeping the annual events calendar for NEL up to date.
- Visitor experience capture and monitoring.
- Supporting with data gathering and analysis of tourism, leisure, heritage and culture related statistics and analytics for reporting and monitoring purposes.
- Horizon scanning for latest tourism trends and opportunities and competitor analysis etc.
- Support with securing advertising for future visitor guides.
- Help developing business cases and funding bids for of tourism, leisure, heritage, and culture related projects.
Working Environment
This role will mainly be office based (in Grimsby town centre) with some opportunities to work from home but from a tourism perspective there may be an opportunity to carry out some activities either at the Meridian Showground or within the resort of Cleethorpes, which will be fully supervised.
If you require an informal discussion about the role please contact Helen Thompson- [email protected]
Why work for NELC?
North East Lincolnshire is a great place to work and there are lots of benefits our employees can access. Here are some of the main benefits:
- Flexible Working Options – agile working, compressed hours, term time working, flexi-time, home working. All to enable a work/life balance (relevant to the role you are undertaking).
- Salary Sacrifice Scheme – saves tax and national insurance by exchanging part of your gross salary for non-cash benefits such as; Holiday Extra – to purchase additional annual leave, Cycle to Work scheme and Tusker Cars (beneficial rate car lease scheme)
- In-house wellbeing support and Employee Assistance Programme
- Health Cash Plan – to claim cash back on a range of healthcare costs
- Credit Union
- Discounts on mobile phones, computers, holiday and travel, fashion and clothing, health & beauty and many other products and services
- Discounted Car Parking Permit
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- A minimum of 24 days holiday + 8 bank holidays per year (based on a 37-hour week)
North East Lincolnshire Council
www.nelincs.gov.uk
Grimsby, United Kingdom
Rob Walsh
Unknown / Non-Applicable
1001 to 5000 Employees
Government
Municipal Agencies
