Brand & Creative Services Executive

Job Purpose

Internal Job Title : Marketing Executive

Salary : £27,000 - £31,000 (depending on experience) + benefits

Location :   Remote working with a dedicated hub for collaborative team working and meetings. You can choose from : Milton Keynes, Birmingham or Hatton .

Working hours : 37 hours per week. 9 : 00 - 17 : 30 Monday to Thursday; 9 : 00 - 17 : 00, Friday,

We’re the UK’s largest canal charity, looking after 2,000 miles of canals and rivers across England and Wales. We’re here to make sure that our 250-year-old canal network remains open and alive. Our work gives wildlife a home, helps nature recover, keeps history alive and brings free, open and accessible blue and green space to the doorsteps of millions of people. It takes an extraordinary team to #KeepCanalsAlive. That’s where you come in. Helping our visual and verbal identity stay on brand and stand out.

The team you’ll be joining

We’re a small and agile team working with colleagues from across the organisation to produce and deliver marketing and communications materials. Our team acts as the guardians of the brand and provides guidance, tools, systems and resources to make sure colleagues and partners have what they need to consistently communicate our visual and verbal identity.

We’re a dynamic, positive, creative and proactive team that’s building our brand and evolving our look and feel to align with our ten-year strategy. We’ll be embarking on an exciting and ambitious journey to make sure we become a well-known charity, so we keep canals open and alive for heritage, nature and people for years to come. You’ll join us at a time where we’re reviewing our brand story, our roster of design agencies and exploring new technologies. There’s a lot of change, so you’ll need to be comfortable working in a fast-moving environment that requires adaptability.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll support the brand manager and marketing services manager to look after and manage the brand, playing a vital role in delivering creative service excellence to a wide range of colleagues. One day you might be managing an influx of requests to our brand inbox for new leaflets, reports, templates and illustrations. The next day you might work closely with colleagues to brief photographers, design agencies and freelancers. You’ll keep our image and film library current, our brand guidelines up-to-date and work on projects that help us drive cost effectiveness such as working with other teams to source photography.

As a Marketing Executive (Brand & Marketing Services) you’ll work proactively and collaboratively across the organisation to support the delivery of a wide range of related activities and manage the production of on-brand assets, imagery, templates and marketing materials.

Knowledge, Skills / Qualifications & Experience

Key accountabilities :

• Maintain and update the image and film library making sure it is optimised for user search.
• Plan and organise photography shoots.
• Keep guidelines and assets up-to-date on the brand centre.
• Update and create new digital and print templates for marketing materials.
• Make small edits to documents, using Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Quality check designs for brand alignment, creative oversights and typos.
• Brief design agencies, printers, photographers and filmmakers (where directed). Support colleagues in their agency needs and encourage the use of our roster of designers, printers, photographers and filmmakers, making sure they’re meeting our brand requirements.
• Manage the production of creative materials to support marketing and fundraising campaigns and activities, locally, regionally and nationally.
• Lead on brand inbox management and responding to requests.
• Carry out administrative tasks such as raising purchase orders, access requests to our brand systems, sending brand updates to agency partners and updating our internal intranet team page.
• Assist with pulling together the quarterly metrics report for the Marketing Services team.
• Encourage brand best practices by providing practical advice to colleagues.
• Display the Trust values and behaviours at all times.
• Ensure that diversity and inclusion are integrated into all aspects of Trust life and promote inclusion by challenging behaviour, practices, actions, or decisions that are counter to the objectives of the Trust’s policies and values.

About you

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To apply :   click on the " for this job" button and follow the process - complete the application form, upload current CV, and send a one page cover letter  telling us why this role is for you and what you can bring.

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Interviews :  There will be a two-stage interview process.

What We Offer

In addition to your salary of £27,000 - £31,000, you will benefit from a competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, great holiday entitlement and numerous other employee benefits, including several salary sacrifice benefits, all of which can be found here ().

At the Trust we care passionately for our waterways, and as importantly, for those who look after and use them. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do as a Trust. We are striving to represent the diverse communities that we are a part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community.