Freelance Marketing & Communications Assistant

Objective: To support and deliver exceptional audience-appropriate communications, working collaboratively with the Marketing & Sales team to build and nurture our community.

This has the following aims:

• To support and monitor the day-to-day communications work of the marketing team, as advised by the Marketing & Communications Officer
• To work within the Marketing & Sales team on building new audiences whilst nurturing existing audiences, with a focus on meaningful and long-term audience development.
• To assist in the expansion of our marketing work by supporting the team in the reflection and evaluation of our current strategy, and creation and implementation of a new strategy

This will involve:

• Scheduling and supporting delivery of social media content. This will include stories, reels and posts, as well as monitoring engagement and providing analysis to help guide strategy.
• Maintaining website content, including loading and publishing events and news articles as directed by the Marketing & Communications Officer
• Drafting email campaigns in Dotdigital for review and sign off by the Marketing & Communications Officer.
• Managing event listings on internal and external platforms, including the University’s intranet SUSSED, Visit Southampton and other relevant sites.
• Managing and updating the venue’s OneLan digital screen content
• Preparing and distributing content for callouts, including eNewsletters and other internal and external communications.
• Supporting the delivery of press activity. This will include sending releases, following up media opportunities, and developing a press contact database.
• Providing general administrative support to the marketing function, including database maintenance, responding to social media enquiries and other tasks as required

This role is offered on a freelance basis for 2 days per week (standard hours are 9am-5pm) at £150/pd until the end of May 2026, with the possibility of extension after this time.