Job Title: Digital Engagement Officer
Location: Romford, Essex – Remote working; some requirement to travel to Havering for meetings
Salary: £36,378-£40,566 per annum
The closing date for the receipt of applications is Monday 2nd May 2022
Job Type: Full-Time/Permanent
Havering has a bright future ahead! As one of London’s largest boroughs, Havering boasts attractive open spaces, fantastic schools and a thriving local economy. Underpinned by a strong corporate agenda, we’re focused on making Havering an even better place to live and work – delivering better outcomes for all.
Havering Education Services (HES) is the council’s commercial brand of support services to education establishments and a leading provider of services and training to schools in the East of England. Our brand is a federation of distinct and integrated business units spread across the Council’s directorates. Our offer to schools and settings is extensive and wide ranging.
About the role:
Based within our Commercial Business Unit, reporting into the Marketing and Communications Manager, the post holder will act as the ‘Digital Marketing Lead’ and help drive forward and improve engagement and impact with service users and customers across a diverse range of digital channels and platforms. The role is responsible for managing all of our digital touch points and online platforms in order to optimise customer journeys and engagement. The role will help drive forward strategic and innovative marketing activities and impact across our portfolio of services.
About you:
- We are looking for a passionate, experienced and innovative digital marketer to maximise our impact through our digital channels.
- You should have a proven track record, backed up by a digital portfolio of works/projects, demonstrating your effectiveness and impact in current or previous work settings in achieving agreed organisational objectives.
- You should be highly skilled and experienced in digital marketing and communications, to include content development and delivery across website, email, social media, Google Ad Words, SEO and Google Analytics.
- You should be an effective collaborator and a team-oriented individual and be able to work independently with minimal supervision. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to manage complex and varied stakeholder relationships effectively and simultaneously to achieve project outcomes is a pre-requisite for this position.
- Our ideal candidate is someone who constantly seeks improvement, both in themselves and in their team; is willing to test and learn from new approaches and is intellectually curious; focuses on solutions and seeks to make a positive difference.
- Experience and understanding of the education services market and knowledge of how to effectively engage with schools and settings will be advantageous for the successful candidate.
Additional Information
- The London Borough of Havering is a Disability Confident employer. Candidates who declare that they have a disability in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 and meet the essential criteria as specified in the Job Profile will be guaranteed an interview.
- Priority consideration on all advertised roles will be given to London Borough of Havering Redeployees.
- The London Borough of Havering is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Please be aware that a Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) check will be required for any position with access to these groups under the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
- In addition, the Authority reserves the right to request employees undertake a basic disclosure check (Disclosure Scotland) where required for the role this includes anyone who has access to (or information obtained directly from) a government database, or has a GCSX account. These posts will be required to have a Basic Disclosure Scotland check as per the requirements of BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standards).
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Candidates with experience of; Digital Marketing, Marketing Executive, Social Media Executive, Social Media Marketing, Online Marketing Executive, Digital Marketing Executive, Marketing Campaign Executive, Marketing Coordinator, Social Media Coordinator, Digital Marketing Coordinator, Website Editor, Website Administrator, Website Admin, Social Media, Website Content Manager, Website Content Managing, Head of Social Media will be considered for this role.
