Marketing and Communications Trainee

We’re hiring! Marketing and Communications Trainee

In 2025 Rotherham becomes the world’s first Children’s Capital of Culture, designed, and delivered by children and young people. There will be a year-long festival of culture, creativity, and community, created by 0-to-25-year-olds for everyone to enjoy.

Children’s Capital of Culture are now seeking to employ an organised, creative and committed Marketing and Communications Trainee who will help effectively promote all the brilliant activities and opportunities taking place during our festival year.

The role

Working closely with the Children’s Capital of Culture team and Rotherham Council’s wider Corporate Communications team, the Marketing and Communications Trainee will:

  • support the delivery of the Children’s Capital of Culture marketing strategy, including ensuring the messages are consistent and on brand.
  • Work closely with different teams within Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council and with external partners to help them promote new and exciting activities and opportunities.
  • plan and create an engaging programme of digital marketing content. This will include creating and scheduling posts across Facebook, Instagram, and X.
  • support the development of our website, including through writing copy and working with Council teams on the final design of the website.
  • commission photographers to grow our image library with high-quality, up-to-date photos that represent who target audiences.
  • plan, write and deliver our monthly newsletter, which shares information about new and exciting events and activities taking place as part of Children’s Capital of Culture

Key information about the role:

  • Who can apply? Young people aged 16-to-25 who live, work or study in the Rotherham borough
  • Hours: full-time (37 hours a week) from Monday to Friday, with occasional evening and weekend working
  • Contract length: 12-month fixed-term contract
  • Salary: £24,790 per year (a Rotherham Council Band D Scale Point 5 salary)
  • Location: Clifton Park Museum, with some working from home and some working at sites across the borough

Shortlisting and interview criteria:

Essential skills

  • Demonstrable ability to create digital content across a range of social media platforms.
  • Knowledge and experience of promoting events and/or products.
  • Be excited about creating playful and inclusive digital content for different audiences.
  • Be able to work effectively as part of a creative team in a dynamic environment.
  • Experience of using a range of both basic and specialist computer applications, such as Microsoft Office, email, Canva and Adobe.
  • Experience of handling, recording, and analysing information where care, accuracy, confidentiality, and security are important.

Desirable skills and experience

  • A proven ability to effectively communicate and engage with varying audiences.
  • Experience of filming and editing video
  • Experience of creating visual assets using a variety of tools (e.g., Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, etc)
  • Knowledge of how social media channels managed.
  • Up-to-date knowledge of innovative and agile communications, PR, and marketing strategies
  • Experience of gathering feedback on campaigns and events and using it to shape future work.

To be invited to interview, you must be able to demonstrate in your application that you meet all the essential criteria. If possible, you should also show how you meet some (or all!) of the desirable criteria, too.

How to apply

Please send a covering letter and a copy of your CV to ccoc@rotherham.gov.uk.

Your covering letter should tell us:

  • why you’re interested in applying for this role.
  • what skills or experience you’d hope to gain from this role, if you were appointed to it.
  • how you meet each of the essential criteria for the role. If possible, you should give us practical, real-world examples that clearly show how you meet each of the criteria. If you like, you could lay out your responses to each of the criteria like this:
    • Experience of working with children and/or young people:

      I really enjoy working with children and young people, and hope to go into either youth work or teaching in my future career. Since the age of 16 I have volunteered each weekend at my local sports club, supporting the coaching team to deliver Saturday sessions for children aged 7-to-11. For the past six months I have been working part-time at a local nursery in Rotherham, and so have gained valuable experience of looking after Early Years children.

      If applicable, you can also tell us how you meet some (or all!) of the desirable criteria, too.

You can send us your covering letter in the following ways:

  • As a written document. This should be no more than three sides of A4, and can be sent as an email attachment. Our preferred file formats to receive are a Word document or a PDF.
  • As an audio or video file. This file should be no more than six minutes long, and can be sent as an email attachment or through a file sharing website (such as WeTransfer or Google Drive). Our preferred file format to receive is a MP4.

Your CV can also be sent as a written document (no more than two sides of A4) or an audio or video file (no more than four minutes long).

Please make sure that your CV or covering letter clearly states your date of birth (as this role is only open to 16-to-25-year-olds), and explains your connection to the Rotherham borough – whether you live, work or study here.

Deadline for sending us your application

The deadline for applications is 11:59pm on Monday 13th January 2025

Shortlisting will take place on Tuesday 14th January 2025, and all applicants will be told the results of their application by Wednesday 15th January 2025.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an in-person interview and in-tray test. This will take place on Monday 20th January 2025 at a central Rotherham venue.

If you think you would like to apply for this role but aren’t sure, or if you have any other questions about this job, please feel free to get in touch with Jo, our Marketing and Communications Manager, for a friendly and informal chat. You can reach Jo on Joanna.hunter@rotherham.gov.uk.