Marketing Communications Assistant

Edinburgh, Midlothian
Energy Saving Trust

Marketing Communications Assistant Up to £24,000 (depending on experience)Fixed term contract until 16 April 2025Edinburgh – Blended or fully office based (from our offices in Edinburgh)

Closing Date: 18 August 2024Ref: SB1269

Do you want to develop your marketing skills in a busy and supportive environment, whilst helping householders, businesses and communities to reduce their energy bills and lower their carbon footprint?We have an exciting opportunity for a marketing communications assistant to join our team on a fixed term contract. Based within our programme marketing team, you’ll help to deliver digital and traditional marketing activities and campaigns, including content creation and providing administrative support. As part of Energy Saving Trust’s wider marketing and communications team, you’ll work with marketing professionals and energy experts to deliver your role at a crucial time.

Who we areEnergy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• We offer an outstanding pension scheme including employer contributions of up to 9%, 11% or 13% (age-linked).
• Enhanced parental leave (eligibility criteria apply).
• Private BUPA insurance.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with service-linked increases as well as three goodwill days over the Christmas period.
• Staff wellbeing allowance of up to £25 per month / £300 per year.

Please see our careers page for the full list of benefits we have to offer and why Energy Saving Trust is a great place to work.The team

• The Scottish programme marketing team is based in Edinburgh and sits within the wider Marketing Communications directorate. It’s responsible for delivering tactical and strategic marketing and communications activities to support our programme teams to achieve their KPIs.
• We are responsive – we handle a high volume of incoming requests from our internal stakeholders as well as the Scottish Government and other funders. We also identify ways in which we can work across other programme teams to help support each other’s activities.
• We are collaborative – we work very closely with colleagues in different Energy Saving Trust departments, suppliers, agencies and funders.
• We are expert – we’re responsible for advising colleagues on our specialist area.
• We are supportive – we work closely as a team, helping make sure we achieve the best we can together.

What you’ll do

• You’ll support the marketing team to implement annual marketing plans and assist with day-to-day tactical marketing activity.
• You’ll create content for and monitor our social media channels.
• You’ll assist with creating and editing website content such as news stories, blog posts and case studies.
• You’ll create, schedule and help optimise email campaigns.
• You’ll support with collateral development, events and general administrative tasks.

What you’ll bring

• Excellent attention to detail, organisational and communication skills.
• Writing and editing experience for social media, with the ability to turn complex issues into succinct, compelling content.
• An ability to work using your own initiative and manage and prioritise a busy workload.
• It would be desirable (but not essential) to have digital marketing experience and knowledge, including experience of using website content management systems, social media monitoring platforms, email marketing platforms and experience in using design and basic video editing tools such as InDesign, Canva and Biteable.
• Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn.

To apply click the apply button. Applications close 23:59 Sunday 18 August 2024. Interviews are intended to be held w/c 26 August 2024.We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. Reasonable adjustments: We are a Disability Confident Committed employer. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for, everyone. If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch. Flexible working: We offer a range of flexible working arrangements, including working from home, compressed or part-time hours, job shares and other arrangements. There is no need to justify your preferred working pattern and we encourage our people to work in whichever way helps them to perform at their best.We will be happy to discuss this and our blended working model at the interview stage with you.Please note, that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.Diversity and inclusionEnergy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best.

We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the minimum criteria for a role.