We're hiring a Marketing Assistant
BY Katie Smart
25th Aug 2022
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Marketing Assistant to join our small team, which provides innovative and highly successful creative writing courses to aspiring writers, online and in London.
You’ll be working full-time as part of our marketing and digital team, focusing on the promotion, advertising and marketing of all our creative-writing courses, as well as our Breakthrough Writers’ Programme for under-represented writers. You’ll also engage with our growing community of aspiring writers through website and newsletter content creation and the continued development of our social media presence.
Please note this is a 6-month contract, although there may be potential for an extension.
Salary: £24,000 per annum.
You’ll be based at our central London offices, but please note we are currently using a hybrid working pattern which involves some working from home, subject to ongoing review.
We aim to build a creative environment that celebrates the differences of our students and colleagues, offering equal opportunities regardless of gender, race, socio-economic background, age, disability, sexual orientation and national origin. In our role as conduits and champions of cultural expressions we are conscious of our responsibility to reflect the world around us. This means making a considered effort to create an inclusive culture in the workplace and promote opportunities for the broadest possible range of talent. We welcome all applications from people with interesting ideas, skills and experience.
All applications must already have the right to work in the UK.
To download the full job description, please click on the link below.
To apply, please send:
- Your CV
- A covering letter (please include details of the dates you are available to start)
- A sample blog post, written by you, which could potentially be used on the Curtis Brown Creative website. We suggest you choose a topic of interest to aspiring novelists who might be considering applying to one of our courses (Hint: our blog posts which offer writing tips/advice all come from our tutors, agents and published authors – don’t be tempted to write a blog post which gives writing advice yourself unless you have an appropriate level of experience).
We would like these materials as Word or PDF documents attached to an email. Please send to jobs@curtisbrown.co.uk AND ENSURE YOU PUT ‘CBC MARKETING ASSISTANT APPLICATION’ in the subject line of your email.
- This role closes for applications at 10am on Monday 12 September.
- All applicants will be contacted by Friday 17 September.
- Successful candidates will be asked to complete a short written test and invited for interview.
- Interviews will be held from Monday 19 September (and may be in person or via Zoom).
- Start date: Immediate (depending on notice period).
Why choose to work for the Curtis Brown Group?
We are passionate group of people who love what we do and love working with each other
We care about employee wellbeing and offer free yoga, personal training classes and mindfulness classes, plus social activities to relax and unwind together.
We also offer season ticket loans, a bike to work scheme, enhanced pension contribution up to 5% of your base salary, private healthcare (after 2 years’ service) and enhanced annual leave.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Confident, clear and sensitive communication skills
- The ability to write engaging, tailored copy
- Familiarity with Microsoft products (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong administrative skills and attention to detail in your work
- Excellent time management skills and the ability to work under pressure
- Experience using social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube)
- Experience with website CMS and ecommerce systems
- Familiarity with Email marketing and CRM systems (E.g. Klaviyo, MailChimp)
- Strong planning and problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude
- A strong interest in the creative arts – particularly books and publishing
And are:
- An innovative thinker with the desire to keep learning
- Digitally native and analytical
- A self-starter with a strong work ethic
- An avid reader
- A confident, warm personality – a person who inspires trust
- Enthusiastic to work in a small team – drawn to the flexibility, pace and creativity this enables