GROW Your Future Marketing Assistant

Lancaster University; Lancaster; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading UK university is seeking a GROW Your Future Marketing Assistant to enhance the student experience through effective marketing and communications. Responsibilities include managing social media channels, developing marketing campaigns, and gathering student feedback. Ideal candidates should be current participants in the GROW Your Future initiative and possess strong skills in content creation and administrative support.

Qualifications

• Current member of GROW Your Future initiative.
• Ability to design engaging content for social media.
• Strong communication skills to maintain student contact.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage the Instagram channel for GYF.
• Support marketing campaigns for GYF across campus.
• Gather and analyze student feedback.

Skills

Social media management

Content creation

Administrative support

Organisational skills

Tools

Canva

Microsoft Office

Job description

GROW Your Future (GYF) is a Widening Participation (WP) initiative, designed to support students from underrepresented and/or disadvantaged backgrounds, by providing a gateway to accessing additional targeted careers support and activity. GYF offers opportunities through a variety of initiatives, and aims to be a supportive student community.

Role overview

As a GROW Your Future Marketing Assistant, you will support the GROW Your Future team by focusing on the student experience, requiring specialist marketing and communications knowledge to promote GYF to students, and the many activities this includes to the GYF student community.

If you have any questions about this role, please contact Hannah Bell, Careers WP Manager.

Role details

Pay Rate: £12.21 per hour plus £1.47 holiday pay

Start Date: 3rd November 2025

End Date: 31st July 2026

Interview Date: 23rd October 2025

Location: On campus/ Remote

Working Pattern: 3-5 hours a week

Responsibilities

• Creating content and maintaining the Instagram channel which provides vital information about GROW Your Future to our student community
• Maintaining contact with students enrolled on GROW Your Future
• Managing marketing campaigns, and developing the GYF brand across campus, as well as creating other promotional material through Canva
• Developing the GYF student community through the Instagram page
• Gathering student feedback
• A current member of GROW Your Future (to find out more and see if you are eligible to join visit https://portal.lancaster.ac.uk/ask/grow-your-future/)
• Skilled user of social media, with a focus on Instagram
• Able to create attractive social media content including images and graphics through Canva
• Ability to provide effective administrative support, including good knowledge of Microsoft Office, in particular use of Word, Excel, MS Teams, and Outlook emails
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Desire and ability to work both in a team and independently
• An interest in and commitment to promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Skills and experience developed

• Collaboration
• Creativity
• Multi-Tasking
• Flexibility
• Organisation
• Planning and Organising