Content Manager

Full-time (see 'Flexible working')

Contract - 12-month maternity cover contract, intended start date of 10/03/25 and ending 13/03/26.

Location: Flexible within the UK. Home-based, blended or fully office based (from our offices in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh or London).

Closing Date: 27 January 2025.

Ref: LT 1323

Working with the head of content, as content manager you'll play a key role in delivering our business-to-business (B2B) content strategy. You'll create B2B audience-led content that grows brand awareness, increases engagement, and generates marketing leads for our digital products and services.

Who we are

Energy 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.
• 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

This role sits in the content team, which is part of the wider marketing, digital and technology department. The team offers a warm and supportive environment for colleagues, both in person in the office and online via our Teams channel.

• We are collaborative - we work closely with colleagues in different departments, as well as external suppliers and agencies.
• 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.

The role

The role brings together strategy and creativity, allowing you to hone your content skills while practice your organisational and stakeholder management abilities. As a content expert, you'll champion best practice across the wider team.

You'll drive brand awareness through meaningful engagement with our B2B audiences. You'll also have the chance to help the UK reach net zero by empowering businesses to reduce emissions and meet their sustainability goals.

What you'll do:

• Lead on business content requests to plan, create, edit, schedule and publish content for our B2B audience.
• Support the website manager to implement and test improvements to the business section of our website.
• Work with digital marketing to ensure content decisions, creation and auditing are shaped in line with our SEO strategy and keyword research.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders to ensure content meets our strategic priorities and editorial standards.

What you'll bring:

• Demonstrable experience of delivering a content strategy and planning, writing and managing content to grown awareness, engagement and marketing leads for B2B audiences.
• Ability to work with stakeholders at all levels and be highly organised with ability to prioritise work effectively and manage projects independently.
• Excellent attention to detail and demonstrable experience of writing website copy, blogs, newsletters, news stories, key messages, and other marketing collateral, and commissioning agencies to make films, animations and photos.

To Apply

Please click the apply button and continue your application through our recruitment portal.

Applications close 9am, Monday 27 January 2025. Interviews are intended to be held Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 February 2025.

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 inclusion

Energy 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.