Marketing and Events Apprentice

Summary

Primary Engineer are a not-for-profit organisation who encourage and inspire young people to explore engineering as a career path. They are looking for individuals who are looking to develop in marketing and events. The successful candidate will assist in planning, preparation and coordination of events related to their programmes and competitions.

Annual wage: £12,480 to £22,308 a year
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Training course: Multi-channel marketer (level 3)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 08:30-16:30 (30 minute lunch break)
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 2 December
Duration: 1 year 6 months
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Working with Senior Events Manager to assist in the planning, preparation, coordination and execution of events related to our programmes and competitions.
Support the logistics and administration of staffing events, including arranging car hire, hotels and transport for staff.
Support the promotion of events, including creating and managing events on online ticket systems.
Helping with planning and management of external events we attend.
Opportunity to travel across the UK to attend events with colleagues from all departments.
Working with the wider marketing team to support our social media campaigns, including scheduling posts, planning content, managing incoming messages and comments.
Supporting the marketing team in their wider campaigns, including social media ads, video interviews and report launches.
Helping to source and manage the marketing collateral we use, including flyers, banner and event material.
Monitor the marketing inbox and support with our partner communications.

Where you’ll work

9 Slater Terrace

Burnley

BB11 1BU

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

BURNLEY COLLEGE

Your training course

Multi-channel marketer (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Develop or interpret briefs for external or internal stakeholders and measure delivery in-line with the specification and agreed timelines

Plan and coordinate a marketing activity using marketing tactics to acquire and retain one or more customer segments using available resources.

Contribute to the generation of innovative and creative approaches across video, images, and other formats, both online and offline, to support campaign development.

Use research/survey software to gather audience insight and/or evaluation to support the project.

Use copywriting techniques to write persuasive text/copy to meet a communications objective ensuring it is in-line with organisational brand guidelines.

Build and implement multi-channel campaigns across a variety of platforms, either offline or digital media.

Proofread marketing copy ensuring it is accurate, persuasive and is on brand.

Use software to design and create marketing assets to meet the technical specification.

Contribute to the research of external suppliers to support recommendations and procurement of marketing goods and services.

Organise offline and digital assets ensuring they are co-ordinated and legally compliant.

Use a website content management system to publish text, images, and video/animated content.

Create and maintain spreadsheets to support marketing activities such as project/budget planning and organisation of marketing assets.

Use technology and software packages to support day to day activities, e.g., stakeholder communications, development of briefs, data analysis, report writing, presentations and project management.

Identify and use data and technologies to achieve marketing objectives.

Monitor and amend campaigns to meet budget requirements including time and monetary costs.

Review campaigns regularly to ensure effectiveness, to optimise the results.

Measure and evaluate campaign delivery to identify areas for improvement.

Use data analysis tools to record, interpret and analyse customer or campaign data.

Your training plan

The apprentice will attend Burnley College one day per week, the remaining days of the week, they will be based at Primary Engineer HQ in Burnley.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade C/4 or above)
Maths (grade C/4 or above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Administrative skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative

About this company

Primary Engineer are leaders in encouraging and inspiring young people to explore Engineering as a career path through the delivery of STEM based programmes and competitions.They work with worldwide companies, universities, organisations and people, taking the message of engineering into schools across the UK.

http://www.primaryengineer.com (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Primary Engineer are commited to the development of their workforce, benefits include but are not limited to: 29 days holiday (pro-rata), including bank holidays; Professional development opportunities and progression; Employee retail discount scheme

After this apprenticeship

The company are commited to providing professional development opportunities and progression within a growing organisation.

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