Marketing Assistant, BBC Philharmonic

Package Description

Job Reference: 18155
Band: B
Salary: £24,039 - £29,302 (pro rata) depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 1 x Continuing (Permanent) Part Time Role (17.5 hours per week)
Location: Office Base is Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford

We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.

Job Introduction

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, celebrated for its dynamic performances and rich history spanning over a century, is looking to hire a new Marketing Assistant. This is a substantial role for a marketing or communications professional in the early stages of their career, and will support the Marketing & Audiences team at the Philharmonic to build content, deliver campaigns, and develop audiences.

We are looking for someone bright and ambitious to help us tell our story and to connect with our current and future audiences. The job includes equal parts campaign delivery, content creation, and support tasks, and will report directly to the Head of Philharmonic Marketing. While extensive marketing experience or knowledge of classical music is not essential, it is important to us that applicants engage with the arts on a broader level and are passionate about different forms of culture - be it specific genres of music, dance, literature, visual art, or any other field.

Main Responsibilities

Campaign Delivery

• Supports the overall development and delivery of marketing campaigns.
• Supports the Marketing & Audiences team in the process of creative asset development by taking ownership of a range of campaign assets and ensuring delivery is made according to each individual campaign plan.
• Runs some contained end-to-end marketing campaigns for less complex deliverables in the Marketing Plan.
• Assists in the planning and creation of digital and social media content.
• Assists in the development and management of events.
• Supports the Marketing & Audiences team with the necessary compliance of all marketing and communications activity by following BBC Editorial Guidelines.
• Organises all campaign collateral and documentation such that we maintain strong records of assets, plans, and performance of individual campaigns.

Strategy and Planning

• Follows Marketing Plans as guidance throughout the campaign development process.
• Understands audience insights relevant to campaigns, and applies them to the creation of campaign assets.
• Assists in the evaluation of campaign performance, including supply of assets for testing, and understanding results of audience research.
• Accountable for multiple deliverables at any one time, successfully managing their time across them all to ensure each is delivered with excellence.

General

• Understand the BBC's Mission to inform, educate and entertain.
• Live the BBC Values, and contribute to making the BBC a fantastic place to work.
• Assists in cross-team co-ordination across creative, media, social, and comms to ensure that campaign tactics are well understood and integrated across the teams, for a timely and integrated delivery across the team.
• Takes a proactive interest in learning and developing their marketing discipline skills, and proactively offer opinion and seek feedback to influence plans, and to grow and develop professional expertise.

Are you the right candidate?

Essentials (must have)

• The Marketing Assistant will be expected to either have some marketing experience, or to demonstrate a clear aptitude for marketing work which involves creative judgement, skills of organisation, and ability to influence and collaborate with others.

The role will require:

• Ability to work on own initiative while seeking appropriate input.
• Ability to critically evaluate ideas and information.
• Excellent attention to detail, and strong planning skills.
• Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion principles.
• Management of stakeholder relationships.
• Ability to express judgement on creative work.
• Good written and spoken communication, with good presentation skills.
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines while managing a wide range of concurrent activities.
• Ability to build relationships with colleagues, partners and creative collaborators.

Desirables (nice to have)

• Experience of working with artists and creatives.
• Knowledge of the UK's arts and culture sector.
• Strong copywriting skills.
• Strong social media skills.
• Experience working with Adobe InDesign, and more broadly, Adobe Creative Suite.
• Interest in classical music.
• Experience assisting and managing on all aspects of a marketing campaign including evaluation.

How to apply

Applicants who wish to apply will need to upload the following documents along with their application:

1. Cover letter (no longer than 1 page) addressing the following areas:

• What excites you about this opportunity and working with the BBC Philharmonic?
• Why do you think you are the right person for this role?

2. CV (no longer than 2 pages)

The process

1. Friday 16 August 2024 - Applications open

2. Sunday 22nd September 2024 - Applications close

3. Week commencing 23 September - Candidates notified of results

Following assessment, shortlisted candidates will be invited to the second stage of the process, which includes a formal interview.

Unsuccessful candidates will be notified by email.

4. Week commencing 30 September - Interviews

Interviews will be conducted at the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra's office, or via video call by a small panel.

5. Week commencing 7 October - Interview outcome

Following the interview stage, all shortlisted candidates will be notified of the outcome by email, phone, or will be informed of next steps. For unsuccessful candidates at this stage, there will be the option to request personal and specific feedback either via a follow-up phone call or email.

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.