Social Media Assistant Apprentice

WATCH OUT (UK) LTD

LEEDS (LS7 1QN)

Closes in 5 days (Wednesday 19 March at 11:59pm)

Posted on 5 March 2025


Summary

Assisting with day-to-day admin and reception duties, answering the telephone, setting up weekly scheduled social media posts.

Training course
Multi-channel marketer (level 3)
Hours
Monday – Thursday 8.30am – 5pm, Friday 8.30am – 5.30pm.

39 hours 30 minutes a week

Possible start date

Monday 28 April

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

2

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

  • Assisting with day-to-day admin and reception duties.
  • Answering the telephone.
  • Dealing with customer calls and queries in a professional cheerful manner.
  • Greeting customers.
  • Inputting information onto the customer data system by setting up products and invoicing customers.
  • Helping to photograph new stock lines and creating files within the company programme so product information can be easily found.
  • Uploading images and product information onto our website and dealing with customer enquiries and online orders.
  • Helping to create social media posts / WhatsApp broadcasts, taking photographs and videos of products to keep social media momentum by posting regularly and setting up weekly scheduled posts.

Where you’ll work

HARVEY HOUSE
ENFIELD AVENUE
LEEDS
LS7 1QN

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

BARNSLEY 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.
  • 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

Delivery to be completed on site and off the job training either at Barnsley College or your place of work. Student to complete a Multi Channel Marketer Level 3 Apprenticeship.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4)
  • Maths (grade 4)

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
  • Customer care skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Interested in fashion

Other requirements

Please make sure that you can get to Barnsley College one day per week.

About this company

Specialists in design led costume jewellery, fashion and leather handbags, accessories and ladies fashion. Established in1986 by Malissa Silverman, who is still very much involved in the business, striving to maintain excellent product development, exceptional quality and great value for money and above all ultimate customer service.

https://www.malissaj.com/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Possible progression opportunities. 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BARNSLEY COLLEGE

Amanda ogley

apprenticeships@barnsley.ac.uk

01226216166

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000307853.

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Closes in 5 days (Wednesday 19 March at 11:59pm)

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