Marketing Assistant (placement) (ED12763)

University of Bath; Bath; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Bath is looking for a proactive Marketing Assistant who will support marketing activities within the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences. This 9-month fixed-term position allows you to employ your marketing knowledge and creativity to aid in promoting courses and fostering student recruitment. Bringing your student experiences into this collaborative role, you will play a part in innovative marketing solutions and gain hands-on experience in content creation and event management.

Benefits

Free counselling services

Cycle to work scheme

Staff discount on gym

Generous annual leave allowance

Personal and professional development opportunities

Family-friendly workplace

Qualifications

• Interest in pursuing a career in marketing or content production.
• Strong ability to create engaging content for social media platforms.
• Experience in using digital marketing channels, including social media.

Responsibilities

• Support production of marketing materials and digital content.
• Assist in delivering in-person and virtual events.
• Conduct competitor monitoring and data analysis for marketing strategies.

Skills

Digital marketing

Content creation

Interpersonal skills

Data analysis

Attention to detail

Work ethic

Flexibility

Job description

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This position is only available to students at the University of Bath who are studying within the departments of Social and Policy Sciences; Politics, Languages and International Studies or Psychology.

We are seeking a creative and proactive Marketing Assistant (placement student) to support our marketing activities in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences on a 9-month, fixed term basis.

Working with our Faculty Marketing team, you’ll support a range of marketing activities, as well as creating promotional content for both on and offline use.

Bringing your own experiences as a student into the team, you'll help to raise the profile of the Faculty and promote our courses to UK and international students.

About The Role

You'll help to support the production of marketing campaign materials and support the production of social media and digital content.

Using your creative skills you will be involved in video and photography creation and editing.

You will also gain experience in supporting and delivering events both in-person and virtual.

You will contribute to competitor monitoring and data analysis feeding into the team’s planning and activities.

This Opportunity Will Allow You To

• Apply your knowledge and experience of the University of Bath to developing innovative marketing solutions
• Play a key role in delivering the Faculty’s student marketing and recruitment objectives
• Be part of a creative and collaborative team
• Explore innovative marketing solutions and how they can be applied in a Higher Education setting
  
  

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Sophia Kirtley ([e-mail]) or Alex Hams ([e-mail]).

The interview date for this vacancy is expected to be either 7th or 8th July.

Our ideal candidate

Skills

You will have a keen interest in pursing a career in marketing or content production and have the following attributes, skills and experience:

• Experience in using digital and online marketing channels (including social media)
• Ability to create engaging content for social media platforms
• A high level of literacy and copywriting skills with excellent attention to detail
• Experience navigating IT, database and presentation software
• Strong information management skills and able to analyse and present complex data
• Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to work collaboratively in a team and with different stakeholders
• Capacity to manage and prioritise workload and work on own initiative
• Strong work ethic, flexible and able to develop new skills quickly
  
  

What We Can Offer You

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
  
  

We are committed to continually expanding our benefits to better support you and enhance your experience with us. Find out more about our benefits.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on X for more information.

Closing Date: 22 Jun 2025

Department: Management, Specialist and Administration

Salary: £23,028 to £23,881 Please note the annual salary quoted is inclusive of a market supplement to ensure the annual pay rate aligns with our commitment as a voluntary living wage employer.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Internship

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing and Sales

• Industries

  Higher Education

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