Assistant Communications & Marketing Consultant

Do you love sharing stories? The National Trust has some of the best. And by bringing your skills to Europe's largest conservation charity, you'll be helping to look after nature, beauty, and history for everyone to enjoy, for ever. We're looking for an Assistant Marketing Communications Consultant to join us in the South West.

Interviews will take place on 29 January 2025 in the Bristol Regional Office.

This is a fixed term contract due to end when the postholder returns to the role. At this point we cannot confirm exactly how long this contract will last, but it is unlikely to be more than 12 months.

What it's like to work here

The South West region is packed with some of the National Trust's most inspirational places. It's home to vast amounts of coast and countryside, historic houses (from the small and charming to grand mansions), plus glorious gardens and parkland.

You'll be part of the Trust's internal consultancy: a flexible resource of specialist skills and expertise. As one of a multidisciplinary team of experts, including curators, fundraisers, building surveyors and project managers, you'll be working with others to help make things happen.

Your contractual place of work will be one of the National Trust Regional Offices in the South West.

Our hybrid working policy means you can balance office and home working with site visits and meetings at other National Trust places. We'll talk about this in more detail at interview, but you should expect to be at National Trust sites within the South West occasionally, and in the Bristol Office at least one day a month. You'll enjoy autonomy but need to be able to balance and prioritise competing demands.

What you'll be doing

You'll work as part of a team of experienced marketing and communications consultants. Your role will be to support your colleagues within the consultancy, and the teams based at National Trust sites. You'll help to raise people's awareness of, and connection with, the Trust's conservation work and the places in our care. You'll be creating, editing, proof-reading, co-ordinating and collating content for offline and online channels. You'll work on our website and support our social media activity. You'll work on our members' handbook, you'll take photographs and you'll create and edit short films for social media. By regularly gathering analytics and other data, you'll help to evaluate and plan the team's activity. You'll share information and updates with colleagues based at Trust places, and help to give them training when needed.

Who we're looking for

We'd love to hear from you if you're:

• experienced in communications, marketing or media environments, across local and regional print, broadcast, digital and social media channels
• able to extract and collate analytics and other data
• confident with web CMS and social media platforms
• familiar with taking photographs and making films for use on social media channels
• an effective communicator, able to build good working relationships
• good at listening, building trust and giving a high-quality service to colleagues
• someone with an eye for detail, good organisational skills and able to work at pace and keep to time
• a champion for inclusion, who helps support everyone to feel welcome.

The package

The National Trust has the motto 'For everyone, for ever' at its heart. We're working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It's important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we're for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

• Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary

• Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)

• Rental deposit loan scheme

• Season ticket loan

• EV car lease scheme

• Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts

• Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.

• Flexible working whenever possible

• Employee assistance programme

• Free parking at most Trust places