Marketing Executive (Hybrid working in Oxford)

Job Introduction

Join Our Team as Marketing Executive at Educake!

Location: Cowley Road Oxford, UK

Annual Salary: £28,000 FTE per annum

Hours of work: Full-time (35 hours per week) or 4 days (28 hours per week) considered

Contract: Permanent

Line Manager: Vicky Butterworth

Recruiter: Hope Parkin

Educake is an award-winning and rapidly growing educational technology business providing online teaching and learning resources to hundreds of thousands of teachers and students around the world. We are based in Oxford. 

Because teachers love Educake, our friendly team is growing. We are on the lookout for someone to join our marketing team. You’ll be involved in all areas of our marketing, from events to social media, content marketing to crunching numbers on campaign success.  You’ll bring your ideas and expertise to help us reach and engage with the right teachers.

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Coming up with ideas to reach teachers who would benefit from using Educake 

• Writing and editing marketing content

• Working on print and email marketing campaigns

• Involved in running Educake’s social media channels

• Managing and optimising paid social media and Google Adwords campaigns

• Working with the rest of the team to continuously review and optimise marketing activity

• Updating the Educake website

• Research tasks as required, eg. subject research, competitor analysis

• Writing award applications

• Providing support for events

Skills/experience you’ll need for this role:

• Some marketing experience

• Good eye for detail, excellent written English and proven writing ability 

• Experience of creating content across a range of channels inc. social media

• Happy working as part of a busy collaborative team

• Experience using website content management systems

• Excellent time management and prioritisation skills to handle projects with short and long lead times

• Comfortable working with data

• IT literate and confident with Microsoft Office, Mailchimp, Canva
  

Desirable:

• Experience of working with schools and/or edtech

• Experience with Google Adwords and paid social media campaigns

• Experience of identifying and working with influencers]

• Experience editing videos 

• Experience using indesign for design work

The role will be based at our offices in Oxford, with a requirement to come into the office two days a week.  

Our Recruitment Process:

Step one: Submit your CV and a tailored cover letter demonstrating your suitability for the role.

Step two: Shortlisted candidates will complete an online, role-specific task.

Step three: In-person interview with two members of the Educake marketing team, followed by a second interview with an Educake director.