Marketing & Communications Assistant Bristol, England
Job description
TO APPLY:-
Please visit our jobs page for a link to our application form - https://www.wethecurious.org/jobs
Location: Hybrid – your time will be split between our office/venue on Bristol Harbourside and your home, or wherever you like to work.
We’re happy to support flexible working – both through hybrid working and your working pattern. You just need to be able to attend key meetings, have some cross-over with the rest of the marketing team and deliver the responsibilities of the role.
Department: Audience
Report to: Acting Marketing Manager.
Mostly working with: Acting Head of Marketing, Acting Marketing Manager, Communications Manager, Digital Marketing Officer and Graphic Designer.
Responsible for: N/A
Salary: £23,000 per annum
Contract: 12-month, fixed term contract with potential for extension
Working hours: Full time, 37.5 hours a week (1 FTE)
About We The Curious
We The Curious is an educational charity and South West England's leading science centre.
We produce experiences that bring people together to play, get creative with science and explore different ideas.
We work with partners, locally and nationally, supporting people to be inquisitive, develop new skills and improve their wellbeing.
We are progressive, inquisitive, collaborative, playful and creative.
Our mission
Our aim is to connect and empower people through sharing creative experiences which celebrate unknowns in science.
Our work as a charity is driven by five key pledges:
_Cultivate Curiosity
_Include Everyone
_Open Up Science
_Sustainable Futures
_Build Resilience
You can find out more about these in our Manifesto.
About the role
_Working closely with our marketing team, you’ll implement our reopening and recovery marketing strategies. You’ll help increase brand awareness, build back audiences and generate income at a critical but exciting time for us, as we build up to reopening.
_You’ll be joining a dynamic, creative and experienced team, supporting the delivery and evaluation of a variety of campaigns across web, email, social media and print. You’ll learn about the many different aspects of We The Curious – both commercial and charitable - whilst you develop your skills across the marketing mix.
_The Marketing team is part of our Audience department, which also includes Inclusion and Digital. Together we create meaningful relationships and rich, welcoming experiences.
What will you do in this role?
Role specific responsibilities
_Support the marketing team with the delivery and evaluation of campaigns to drive day ticket sales and footfall. This may include things like writing editorial, compiling newsletters, setting up paid social ads and engaging specific audience groups with targeted promotions.
_Create, write and evaluate social media content. Reactively respond to comments, enquiries and reviews. These responsibilities are shared with the marketing team.
_Promote our public programme of day and evening events by compiling PR listings, creating web events and playful social media content.
_Liaise with our partners across the city i.e. Visit West, Festival of Nature to amplify our efforts and make maximum noise about our activities. Identify and engage with relevant influencers and communities online.
_Play a key role in the organising and promotion of our reopening events. Help to ensure smooth running on the day
_Support the development of new assets by briefing external photographers and videographers and working with our in-house Graphic Designer. Manage model consent forms. Support external filming requests as required.
_Support the marketing team with the delivery of schools and home educator campaigns to drive education bookings. This may include things like updating web listings, researching advertising opportunities and creating engaging newsletters.
_Support the marketing team with the delivery of venue hire campaigns to generate income. This may include things like copywriting for brochures, paid social ads and supporting reopening events.
What will you do in this role?
General responsibilities
_Embody and demonstrate our values; Collaborative, Creative, Inquisitive, Playful, Progressive.
_Responsible for carefully following safeguarding policies and procedures and raising any concerns to manager/Designated Safeguarding Officer
_Promote charity messaging across your area of work wherever possible, with support from the development and marketing teams.
_General responsibility for departmental compliance with GDPR.
_Support the rest of Audience team with projects when required.
_Occasional out of hours work and travel to events.
What we're looking for from you
_Strong interest in delivering creative marketing campaigns, both on and offline. You'll be passionate about marketing and have an understanding of the fundamentals. You may have some experience in this area, or you may be looking to develop your skills and a career in marketing.
_Able to work as part of a team and independently. You’ll need to be self-motivated and able to organise your time, juggle different projects and meet deadlines.
_Passionate about social media and the potential it has for engaging new audiences and building communities.
_Strong written communicator and playful copywriter. You'll need to be able to translate complex topics (like our programming) into simple, engaging communications whilst embodying our brand values.
_An interest in audience research. Able to evaluate simple data sets (like social media stats) and draw conclusions.
_An interest in our work as a charity, our values and a desire to work with audiences with lived experiences that aren’t well represented in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) and the arts.
_You may not have worked in a cultural organisation before, or in an organisation like We The Curious. Perhaps you have worked in events, retail, leisure, technology or you may have gained some experience in a voluntary capacity – these are all transferrable contexts.
Application process
Deadline for applications: Midnight Wednesday 15 February
Interview date(s) and location: w/c 6 March, Temple Quay, Bristol BS1. We can also hold interviews online if you can't make it in person.
Start date: March 2023, depending on notice period
Application process:
If you would like to apply, please complete the application form at https://www.wethecurious.org/jobs
It contains three questions designed to assess your interest in and suitability for the role.
As copywriting is a requirement of the role, we will use what you write in the application form as a means of assessing your skills in this area so do bear that in mind.
Please don't send in CVs or cover letters as we don't review them.
We appreciate interviews can be stressful, so we try to make them more of a conversation and a chance for you to tell us about how your skills and interests make you the right person for the role.
If you are invited for an interview, we'll send you the questions that you'll be asked beforehand so that you have time to prepare.
If you have any particular needs or requirements, please do let us know so that we can make the required adjustments.
If you would like to talk about the role or the application process, please contact us.
Including everyone
We value the positive impact greater representation will have on our organisation, programmes and culture. It’s our goal to become an inclusive place to work and for our teams to better reflect our city and the people who visit us.
We welcome applications from people of all lived experiences and particularly those that are not well represented* in the science centre sector.
We want to work with you to ensure the recruitment process is accessible for you, please contact us if you have questions about We The Curious, our accessibility or recruitment process.
*By not well represented we mean people with lived experience including but not limited to:
_African and African-Caribbean heritage
_South Asian and East Asian heritage
_Other minoritised ethnic groups
_Disabled
_Neurodivergent
_Visually Impaired
_Deaf community
_LGBTQIA+ and/or non-binary
_Working class background
_Didn’t go to university or first in your immediate family to attend University
Working with us
We value the people that work with us. Our staff have access to the following:
Wellbeing & support
_Flexible working
_Hybrid working (if suitable and stated for role)
_Mental Health First Aiders
_Confidential advice & counselling through the Employee Support Programme
Leave
_25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays (all pro-rata).
_New parent package: enhanced pay for all new parents.
Facilities & discounts
_Free entry to the venue at any time with up to four guests, plus 12 additional entry tickets per calendar year to give away.
_20% off in the We The Curious café plus £3 lunch deals
_20% off in our shop
_Range of discounts with local businesses and free entry to other local attractions.
_Free parking
_Secure cycle storage
Pension
_We offer a pension scheme with 5% company contributions.
Death in service benefit
_Four times your annual salary.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Salary: £23,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Discounted or free food
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bristol, BS1 6DZ
Application deadline: 15/02/2023
