Marketing Assistant, Edinburgh Science Festival 2025


Pay: £90 per day
Work Hours: Full-time
Duration: Temporary, Fixed-term contract, 13 January – 25 April 2025
Start: 13 January 2025
Work Location: Edinburgh

We are seeking a talented Marketing Assistant to support us in the lead up to our annual Edinburgh Science Festival 2025 (5 April – 20 April 2025).

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About the Role:

This is an exciting and busy role and is a unique opportunity if you are looking to pursue a career in marketing.  It will give you excellent experience working across all aspects of our festival campaign.  Some of the areas you will get involved in are:

  • Assist with delivery of all aspects of the marketing and communications plan for our 2025 Festival;
  • Updating the Science Festival digital channels – producing content for the website, e-newsletters and social media channels;
  • Assisting with the design, delivery and distribution of branded materials for sponsors and stakeholders;
  • Assisting at film and photo shoots during the Festival, along with attending events and representing Edinburgh Science Festival.

About You: 

You will have the relevant skills and experience -

  • A high degree of computer/web literacy
  • Excellent communication skills with strong copy writing and editing skills
  • Ability to communicate clearly and confidently with colleagues and external suppliers/press
  • Ability to work to agreed deadlines
  • Can work independently and contribute to a team based environment
  • Ideally have some experience of events, marketing and CRM systems, preferably within a festival setting

This is a temporary position starting in early January 2025 and contracted until mid/end April 2025.  Standard Monday to Friday office hours apply but will require flexibility during the festival run in and live period, which may include some weekend working and unsocial hours.

How to Apply:

To view the full job description visit: https://bit.ly/3ObyxKl

Please complete our brief online application. You will be asked to upload your current Curriculum Vitae and a cover letter detailing your relevant experience and suitability for the role. Please also include two references.

Please note:  By the start of any employment with Edinburgh Science, you must have the right to work in the UK and documentary evidence to support this. 

 

Closing date: Sunday 1 December 2024, 11:59PM

Interviews will be held: W/c 9 December 2024

 

At Edinburgh Science we welcome applications from all backgrounds because we believe that bringing together people with different perspectives, ideas and experiences always leads to better discussions, decisions and results.

 

 

 


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Edinburgh Science

Edinburgh Science Foundation is an educational charity that inspires people of all ages and backgrounds around the world to experience the wonder of science and technology. Best known for Edinburgh’s annual Science Festival – the world’s first science festival and still one of the world’s largest – and for our Learning programmes that sees Generation Science tour Scotland and bring science to life in classrooms throughout the year and promotes STEM careers to teens through initiatives such as Careers Hive. An increasing worldwide element shares our content, passion and expertise more widely through an extensive portfolio of international projects.

Our mission is to inspire, encourage and challenge people of all ages and backgrounds to explore, understand and engage with the world around them and to communicate the educational, social and economic benefits of science and technology.

 

Our language is that of live experiences that amaze, inform and entertain in equal measure. We put the customer first whether they are the public, school teacher or pupil. We want to be the best before we are the largest. We thrive on creativity, rely upon professionalism and insist on accuracy. We believe in testing what we do assuming that rarely can an event not be improved. We respect and nurture the partnerships on which we depend for support, people and ideas. We know we are only as good as the people we work with and so value them all, here and abroad.