Do you love sharing stories?The National Trust has some of the best. And by bringing your skills to Europe's largest conservation charity, you'll be helping to look after nature, beauty, and history for everyone to enjoy, for ever. We're looking for an Assistant Marketing Communications Consultant to join our team in the Midlands and East of England. The Midlands and East of England region is packed with some of the National Trust's most inspirational places. It's home to picturesque coast and countryside, historic houses, plus glorious gardens, parkland and nature reserves teeming with wildlife. What it's like to work here You'll be part of the Trust's internal consultancy: a flexible resource of specialist skills and expertise. As one of a multidisciplinary team of experts, including curators, fundraisers, building surveyors and project managers, you'll be working with others to help make things happen. Your contractual place of work will be one of the National Trust locations in the Midlands, as we already have an Assistant based in the East of England. Our hybrid working policy means you can balance office and home working with site visits and meetings at other National Trust places. We'll talk about this in more detail at interview, but you should expect to be at National Trust sites within the Midlands a few times a month. You'll enjoy autonomy but need to be able to balance and prioritise competing demands. What you'll be doing You'll work as part of a team of experienced marketing and communications consultants. You'll support your colleagues within the consultancy, and the teams based at National Trust sites. You'll help to raise people's awareness of, and connection with, the Trust's conservation work and the places in our care. You'll be creating, editing, proof-reading, co-ordinating and collating content for offline and online channels. You'll work on our website and support our social media activity. You'll work on our members' handbook, take photographs and create and edit short films for social media. By regularly gathering analytics and other data, you'll help to evaluate and plan the team's activity. You'll share information and updates with colleagues based at Trust places, and help to give them training when needed. Who we're looking for We'd love to hear from you if you're: experienced in communications, marketing or media environments, across local and regional print, broadcast, digital and social media channels able to extract and collate analytics and other data confident with web CMS and social media platforms familiar with taking photographs and making films for use on social media channels an effective communicator, able to build good working relationships good at listening, building trust and giving a high-quality service to colleagues someone with an eye for detail, good organisational skills and able to work at pace and keep to time a champion for inclusion, who helps support everyone to feel welcome. The package The National Trust has the motto 'For everyone, for ever' at its heart. We're working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It's important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we're for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too. • Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary • Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18) • Rental deposit loan scheme • Season ticket loan • EV car lease scheme • Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts • Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria. • Flexible working whenever possible • Employee assistance programme • Free parking at most Trust places Click here to find out moreabout the benefits we offer to support you. Closing Date: 02 February, Interviews will take place on 12 February 2025 To apply for this vacancy simply click the 'apply' button in the top right hand side of the page. If you need any help with your application, i.e. due to technical difficulties, please call us on 0370 240 0274 or email us at If you require an adjustment to the application process, for example due to disability or medical condition, please call us on 0370 240 0274 or email us at and we'll support you as best as we can. For examples of how, please see our supporting you page. EqualOpportunities Statement The National Trust celebrates diversity and is committed to creating a fair and equal society, free from discrimination. You can read more about our commitment to inclusion and diversity here. Safeguarding Statement The National Trust is committed to a safe recruitment processes to help the organisation attract and appoint the right staff/volunteer for the role and responsibilities as set out in the vacancy advert. We will not accept applicants who are not suitable to work with children, young people or adults at risk. If you have any questions around your suitability for this vacancy, please contact the people service centre. Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early and therefore we encourage you to apply for this position early.