Overview

Are you a creative, organised, and enthusiastic individual with a passion for marketing and events? We're looking for a Marketing & Events Assistant to join our friendly team. This exciting and varied role offers a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in marketing, events coordination, and visitor engagement across our vibrant portfolio of sites, including the Land of Oak & Iron Heritage Centre and The Greenhouse Business Centre. You'll work closely with our events, operations, and retail teams to create engaging marketing content, support the delivery of memorable events, and help keep our sites looking their best. This is a supportive role where you'll be encouraged to share ideas, develop skills, and make a real difference.

Responsibilities

• Create engaging marketing content and support the delivery of memorable events.
• Assist with visitor engagement across our sites and coordinate with the events, operations, and retail teams.
• Help keep sites looking their best and uphold brand standards.

Qualifications

• Creative and confident with social media.
• Organised, with strong attention to detail.
• Comfortable working independently while being a great team player.
• Willing to work flexibly, including occasional evenings or weekends for events.
• Familiar with Canva or similar design tools (experience is a bonus, but training can be provided).

About Groundwork

Groundwork works across the UK helping communities find practical solutions to the challenges they face. We provide training and create jobs, reduce energy use and waste, re-connect people with nature and transform whole neighbourhoods. Step by step we will go on changing places and changing lives until everywhere is vibrant and green, every community is strong enough to shape its own destiny and everyone can reach their potential.

We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work.

As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Safeguarding

At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.