External Marketing & Communications Business Partner (Maternity cover)

Acis Group Limited; Gainsborough CP; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-centered organization in Gainsborough CP is seeking a creative External Marketing & Communications Business Partner for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The successful candidate will build the brand externally through strategic marketing campaigns, community engagements, and event partnerships. They should possess a degree in marketing or a related field with proven experience in digital marketing, excellent communication skills, and a strong focus on community impact. The organization fosters equality and flexibility in the workplace.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement – 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Pension contributions up to 10%

Professional training funded by the organization

Paid volunteering day per year

Health and benefits scheme

Discount savings scheme

Employee recognition scheme

Long service awards

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Professional membership subscription

Death in service benefit

Qualifications

• Proven experience in marketing and engagement roles with successful campaign delivery.
• Strong planning and organisational skills, with attention to detail.
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills.
• Experience in delivering successful digital marketing campaigns.
• Resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in regulated environments like housing or education.
• Proven success in organising external positioning events.

Responsibilities

• Promote services and showcase community impact across all business areas.
• Develop and deliver innovative marketing campaigns.
• Engage with community teams to enhance visibility of activities.
• Ensure brand consistency across all audiences.
• Create engaging content for various platforms and demographics.
• Represent the company at relevant events for awareness and reputation building.
• Plan and deliver campaigns related to education access.

Education

Degree in marketing, communications or a related field

Job description

Overview

Ware looking for a creative External Marketing & Communications Business Partner to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract (Maternity cover). We would consider full time and part time options.

This role is all about building our brand and reputation externally – through strategic marketing campaigns, community engagement activities, events and partnerships. You’ll help us connect with customers, partners and communities, driving awareness and growth while showcasing the impact we make.

Responsibilities

• Promoting services: You’ll work with all business areas to showcase our service offers and wider community impact
• Marketing campaigns: You’ll develop and deliver innovative campaigns with clear, consistent messaging
• Community engagement: Close involvement with our community engagement teams, you’ll be in the midst of helping the teams grow visibility of their activities and impact through events, showcases and local initiatives
• Brand consistency: Our brand champion, ensuring our brand is promoted cohesively across all audiences and spaces
• Connecting teams: Using your knowledge of all our business areas, you’ll join them up to celebrate and share our group-wide impact
• Content generation: Creating engaging content from our communities and operational areas that can be shared across multiple platforms and people groups
• Networking: Representing Acis Group at relevant events to raise awareness and build reputation, working in collaboration with other departments
• Targeted campaigns: Planning and delivering campaigns such as access to our higher education and GCSE courses

Experience & qualifications

• A good level of proven experience in marketing and engagement roles, including campaign delivery
• Strong planning and organisational skills – detail-focused and deadline-driven
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills
• Experience in delivering successful digital marketing and advertising campaigns
• A degree or significant proven experience in marketing, communications or a related field
• Resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in a regulated environment such as housing and/or education
• Proven experience in delivering successful external positioning events.

What will make you stand out

• CIM qualification
• Hands-on experience leading change initiatives
• Knowledge of multi-channel marketing – including social media, email, and event-based campaigns, with the ability to integrate messaging across platforms
• Proficiency in analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Google Analytics, social media insights) to measure campaign impact and inform future strategies
• Creative design or content development skills – familiarity with tools like Adobe Creative Suite or Canva for producing high-quality visual and digital assets.

Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement – 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Pension contributions up to 10%
• The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us.
• One days paid leave a year for volunteering work (in addition to your Annual leave entitlement)
• Staff benefits with Paycare – A health and benefits scheme giving you support and contributions towards various health benefits such as counselling, eye tests, vaccinations and much more
• Benefits with Acis Perkz – a discount scheme giving you savings off hundreds of schemes including discounts on your coffee, weekly shop, days out and much more!
• Employee recognition scheme, where we celebrate and award our Stars within Acis, including gift vouchers
• Long service awards for our loyal employees
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support, when you need it
• Professional membership subscription to support your continuous professional development
• Death in service benefit as part of our pension scheme

As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your application.

Acis are committed to equality and diversity, are a proud member of disability confident and welcome applications from any applicant who feel they hold the essential skills to fulfil the role. We recognise that people need flexibility in their role and we’re happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate in addition to any aid with interviewing that you might need