Marketing Communications Administrative Assistant

Portsmouth City Council; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working (2 days in office)

Job summary

Portsmouth City Council is recruiting a Marketing Communications Administrative Assistant for the marketing and corporate communications team on a fixed-term basis. The role involves a mix of administrative duties and entry-level communications tasks to support the council’s corporate communications service.

You will help with creating content, distributing bulletins, updating web pages, and posting on social media while assisting with campaign delivery and procurement processes.

Qualifications

• Marketing/PR experience or related environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Good administrative experience including minute taking and spreadsheet management
• High IT literacy and familiarity with social media platforms

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and entry level communications support to the corporate communications service
• Build and distribute email bulletins; draft straightforward web pages, articles and news releases; update content online
• Schedule and monitor social media posts across multiple platforms
• Assist with campaign delivery and evaluation; track activity and distribute publications
• Book print/advertising, raise and process invoices, ensure materials are distributed on time

Skills

Marketing/PR experience

Literacy & numeracy

Social media literacy

Education

Marketing/PR qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

We have a vacancy for a motivated and organised Marketing Communications Administrative Assistant to join our marketing and corporate communications team on a fixed term basis.

This is a Fixed term contract up to 8 months.

About the Role

Reporting to a senior member of the marketing communications team, the post holder will provide a combination of administrative and entry level communications support to the council's corporate communications service.

The role includes providing basic communications support, such as building and distributing email bulletins, drafting straightforward web pages, articles and news releases, and updating content online. The post holder will also help schedule and monitor social media posts across a range of platforms, supporting the team's digital communications activity.

The role will involve assisting with campaign delivery and evaluation by helping to track activity, distribute publications and provide administrative support for marketing initiatives. Responsibilities will also include booking print and advertising, raising and processing invoices, and ensuring materials are distributed accurately and on time.

The ideal candidate

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a good standard of education with excellent literacy and numeracy skills
• Has a marketing, media or PR related qualification, or experience working in a related environment
• Can demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills
• Has solid administrative experience, including minute taking and spreadsheet management
• Is highly IT literate, with good knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Is confident using social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), YouTube and LinkedIn
• Is well organised, able to manage competing priorities and work to deadlines
• Is confident dealing with a range of internal and external customers
• Is enthusiastic, proactive and keen to learn

Please ensure that you download and read the full job profile attached for the details and expectations of this role, paying particular attention the section 'Who is the person' as you will need to refer to this when completing your Personal statement.

About Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.

We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours .

Hybrid Working - Minimum of 2 days in the office

We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found at Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal

We are committed to offering an interview to all those candidates that qualify under our corporate commitments and meet the minimum criteria, however, for roles that receive a large number of applications, we will select the candidates that best meet the minimum criteria.

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.