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Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per annum Location: East of England,Essex Job Type: Freelance
We’re working on an opportunity for a Marketing Executive to join a busy and friendly marketing function in Essex within a local authority organisation. This is a 10-12-month maternity cover contract. The role is part-time (3 days/week) with flexible hours and some hybrid working.
About the Role
This is a broad and varied role working across digital and offline channels to plan, manage, and deliver targeted marketing campaigns. You’ll be responsible for generating awareness and driving engagement across a range of services, events, and campaigns that directly benefit the local community.
You'll get to work on:
Why You’ll Love It Here
You’ll join a genuinely welcoming, collaborative team where creativity and initiative are encouraged. The role offers a nice mix of strategy and hands-on delivery, with the opportunity to contribute your own ideas and see them through.
We’re looking for someone proactive, positive, and practical, who can hit the ground running and juggle multiple projects with confidence and good humour.
You should have:
About the Role
This is a broad and varied role working across digital and offline channels to plan, manage, and deliver targeted marketing campaigns. You’ll be responsible for generating awareness and driving engagement across a range of services, events, and campaigns that directly benefit the local community.
You'll get to work on:
- Membership marketing and retention campaigns
- Community outreach through events and seasonal activities
- Multi-channel content delivery – web, social, email, digital screens, and print
- Working across multiple venues and locations with lots of variety
Why You’ll Love It Here
You’ll join a genuinely welcoming, collaborative team where creativity and initiative are encouraged. The role offers a nice mix of strategy and hands-on delivery, with the opportunity to contribute your own ideas and see them through.
- Part-time: 3 days/week (flexible working hours, ideally includes Mondays and Thursdays)
- Salary: Up to £35,000 FTE (pro rata)
- 1–2 days/week WFH after initial 6-week office-based period
- Flexibility around hours (e.g. potential for compressed hours or 5 short days)
- Occasional travel to other local sites (so a driving licence is helpful)
- Work on genuinely enjoyable campaigns, including family events, leisure, and health & wellbeing
We’re looking for someone proactive, positive, and practical, who can hit the ground running and juggle multiple projects with confidence and good humour.
You should have:
- Solid experience delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns
- Strong copywriting, content, and basic design skills (Canva preferred)
- Familiarity with CRM/email platforms (e.g. Mailchimp, Hootsuite, or similar)
- An eye for accessible, inclusive marketing (fonts, colours, tone)
- Good organisational and project management skills (ideally using tools like Asana)
- A confident communicator – comfortable interviewing people and producing engaging content
- Basic video editing skills
- Experience working in public sector, leisure, or community-focused organisations
