Marketing Officer - Social, Content & Campaigns (Barnstaple)

Exeter College; Barnstaple; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Enhanced pension contributions

Wide range of additional employee bene

fits

Job summary

Exeter College’s Barnstaple campus is launching a new role for a Marketing Officer to lead Social, Content & Campaigns. You’ll own day‑to‑day social channels and drive recruitment and reputation campaigns—planning, setting up, delivering and optimising paid and organic activity from start to finish.

You’ll identify audiences, shape the message, select channels, manage budgets and create assets with our in‑house designer.

Qualifications

• Strong copywriting skills for written, photographic and short‑form video content.
• Experience planning and delivering paid and organic social campaigns and budgets.
• Ability to identify audiences and tailor messages across channels.
• Comfort with using data and insight to improve performance.

Responsibilities

• Own day‑to‑day management of social media channels.
• Plan, set up, deliver and optimise paid and organic activity across campaigns.
• Identify audience, shape the message, select channels, manage budgets and deadlines.
• Create or coordinate campaign assets with the in‑house designer.
• Capture student content, develop social copy and short‑form video; analyse performance.
• Build relationships across the College and coordinate colleagues and suppliers to keep activity moving.

Job description

Marketing Officer - Social, Content & Campaigns (Barnstaple)

Hours

Hours 37 hours per week

Contract Type

Contract Type Permanent

Location

Location Barnstaple

Closing Date

Closing Date 29/10/2026

Job Description and Person Specification

If you love creating content that gets people talking, know what makes a campaign land and are always spotting the next great story, this brand-new role in our Marketing and Communications team could be for you.

This isn’t a role where you wait for a brief to land in your inbox. You’ll be out there finding the stories, people and opportunities that showcase what makes North Devon College special, and turning them into content that connects with the audiences we want to reach.

You’ll take day-to-day ownership of our social media channels and student recruitment and reputation campaigns – planning, setting up, delivering and optimising paid and organic activity from start to finish. You’ll identify the audience, shape the message, select the right channels, manage budgets and create or coordinate the campaign assets needed to make it happen, working closely with our in-house designer.

One day you might be setting up and monitoring a paid recruitment campaign; the next, capturing student content, creating a Reel, developing campaign creative, writing social copy or analysing performance to decide what we should do next.

We’re looking for someone who understands audiences, channels and content, with strong copywriting skills and the confidence to create engaging written, photographic and short-form video content. You’ll be comfortable setting up and managing paid social campaigns, planning organic activity, managing budgets and deadlines, and using data and insight to continually improve performance.

Most importantly, you’ll take ownership. You’ll build relationships across the College, seek out opportunities, challenge and improve briefs, coordinate colleagues and suppliers and keep activity moving. You’ll understand what we’re trying to achieve and turn that into creative, audience-focused marketing that delivers results.

In return? High standards, real autonomy and the opportunity to make a true impact. You’ll join a friendly, ambitious Marketing and Communications team at an exciting time for North Devon College, with the freedom to bring forward ideas, experiment with content and help shape how we tell our story.

Benefits

• You’ll also benefit from a generous holiday allowance, enhanced pension contributions and a wide range of additional employee benefits.

If you’re full of ideas, curious about what makes audiences tick and ready to create campaigns and content that get noticed, we’d love to hear from you.

This is a fully office-based role at our Barnstaple campus.

Everyone’s welcome to apply for a role here, regardless of personal characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality.

We’re totally committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students, and we expect you to be too. We follow safer recruitment statutory guidance (Keeping Children Safe in Education). If you’re successful, you’ll be required to complete thorough pre-employment checks , including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) mean that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications, related exceptions and further information.

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is Thursday 29th November 2026

Interviews will be held in Barnstaple on Tuesday 3rd November