Marketing and Communications Manager

With ambition a key value at The Talent Foundry, we're seeking a Marketing and Communications professional to level-up our engagement with teachers, partners, volunteers and supporters so that every young person can succeed and thrive in school and work.

We know that talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. Working across the UK, students in underserved communities have big aspirations, but need help to unlock opportunity and change their futures forever.

That’s where The Talent Foundry comes in. For 16 years our charity has been delivering free, high-energy school programmes that boost young people’s confidence, uncover their potential, build skills and connect them to a world of career possibilities.

The Role 

As part of our new engagement team, this role represents an exciting opportunity to lead and execute our new marketing and school engagement strategies to help us reach our ambitious 2035 vision.

With a passion for storytelling and a love of writing engaging copy across the full spectrum of communication channels, you will showcase the exciting and inspiring programmes we deliver through our industry partnerships.

Your marketing campaigns will encourage teachers within our school network to book our programmes, bring new schools onboard, celebrate the impact of our industry partnerships, engage new supporters to fund our work and showcase the talented young people we work with.

You’ll be a creative project manager, someone who is action-orientated, a completer-finisher and enjoys seeing results.

Your areas of responsibility are: 

• Increasing our reach and engagement with teachers and advisers
• Develop our profile and celebrate our impact
• Teamwork and leadership

We recommend reading the full job description and person specification for an overview of the skills, experience and knowledge we are looking for before applying for this role. 

Your experience

• Previously worked in a marketing or communications role for a minimum of three years, within education/youth sector or equivalent B2B market
• Proven track record of designing and delivering integrated outreach campaigns for customer acquisition
• Self-starter who can independently oversee projects from start to finish, managing own and team objectives
• Line management of paid staff with experience of developing and supporting a team
• Use of data to drive decisions, including understanding of audience behaviour
• Ability to spot communication opportunities for collaboration across the team and with our partners
• Bring creativity and innovation to drive engagement

This is a hybrid role. You will be working from home with IT provided and join Team Together Days in a co-working space in London 2-3 individual days each month. These days are considered commuting days. You do not need to live in London to apply for this role, but you will need to consider what is a reasonable commuting distance for you to attend the team days in London.

In our job information pack you can also read our advice on using AI in your application. 

We are open to hearing from candidates who are interested in part-time hours (0.8 FTE) and/or job share. 

We also offer 28 days holiday + bank holidays (as we close for the Christmas period). 

Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing and welfare of children and we require everyone associated with The Talent Foundry Trust, including all trustees, employees, and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will need to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the role, including completing our Safer Recruitment process, references from past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service checks.