Digital Marketing Assistant, BBC Children in Need

JIM - Jobs In Manchester; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity seeks a Digital Marketing Assistant to support their email marketing efforts. This role offers the chance to contribute significantly to the charity’s appeal campaign, working with digital marketing experts while enhancing your skills in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience of checking content for errors.
• Some experience of copywriting to specific tone of voice/brand guidelines.
• Experience using email creation systems or CMS for charities.

Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day running of the charity’s email programme.
• Coordinate with teams to build emails using provided assets.

Skills

Attention to detail

Copywriting

Email creation system experience

Project management

Job description

Job Requisition ID: 24357

Job Closing Date: 24 June 2025

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 a website content management system (such as WordPress) for a charity or other not-for-profit organization.
• Experience working to tight deadlines and managing time independently.
• Experience 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 satisfactory performance. It is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

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

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Redeployment

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