Digital Marketing Assistant, BBC Children in Need

BBC; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

The BBC is seeking a Digital Marketing Assistant to support its charity email campaign, particularly during the busy appeal season. This full-time role involves coordinating email content, ensuring quality, and working collaboratively with digital marketing colleagues. Candidates should have attention to detail, basic copywriting skills, and experience with email or content management systems.

Qualifications

• Experience of checking content for errors.
• Some experience of copywriting to specific tone of voice/brand guidelines.
• Experience of using an email creation system.
• Experience of managing tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Support the digital marketing managers in daily email programme operations.
• Coordinate with teams to build emails from provided assets.

Skills

Attention to detail

Copywriting

Project management

Tools

Email creation system

Content management system

Job description

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: A

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract / Attachment, Full-time (01 September 2025 - 30 November 2025)

DEPARTMENT: BBC Children in Need

LOCATION: Salford – Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £23,000 - £25,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

BBC Children in Need believes that every child should have the chance to thrive and be the best they can be.

Our digital marketing teams help enable this through our social, email and website channels. Our Digital Marketing Assistant is a key role during our busy appeal season, supporting our digital marketing executives to deliver our email programme.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Working across our entire appeal, this is an opportunity to take real ownership of an area of our charity email campaign. You will work alongside a small number of highly supportive digital marketing colleagues whilst also getting the chance to learn from a wide range of teams within the charity who are united in their desire to help children and young people.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Support the digital marketing managers with looking after the day to day running of the charity's email programme.
• Coordinate with teams across the charity to receive copy, images and links and build emails from these assets using our email system (dotdigital).

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Thorough attention to detail and experience of checking content for errors.
• Some experience of copywriting to specific tone of voice/brand guidelines.
• Experience of using an email creation system (such as Force24 or Mailchimp) or website content management system (such as Wordpress) for a charity or not-for-profit organization.
• Experience of working to tight deadlines and managing time independently.
• Experience of keeping track of multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you are offered this role, the BBC will conduct employment screening checks including reference checks, eligibility to work checks, and, if applicable, safeguarding and social media checks. Any offer is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

For any queries, please contact: [e-mail]

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC. Priority consideration will be given to employees at risk of redundancy, considering their application alongside others at risk, before considering external applicants.