Employer: Canine Partners

Job Title: Digital Marketing Officer

Job Location: Osgathorpe, Leicestershire (hybrid), or remotely from home

Salary: £23,655 – £28,090 (depending on experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Job Description:

If you are a talented digital marketing professional looking to utilise your skills within the charity sector, this could be the role for you!

Canine Partners’ mission is to change the lives of disabled people using expertly trained dogs to improve physical, emotional and social wellbeing. 

To help us create amazing partnerships, we need amazing people. Canine Partners has an exciting opportunity for a Digital Marketing Officer to join our dedicated Marketing Communications team. 

This is an incredible role at a prominent assistance dog charity where you role will be a part of our essential work that transforms lives every day. 

What you will do: 

You will be responsible for optimising our social media channels, website, and paid digital marketing, to help the charity achieve its goals to increase awareness, engagement, and income. You will help to build, implement and manage the charity’s digital marketing strategies and work collaboratively across all areas of the the charity (internal and external). This is a great opportunity to work creatively in an environment where every day is different.

It is an exciting time to join us, as the charity marks its 35th anniversary this year and we will be doing lots to celebrate! Including embarking on ambitious projects such as a website rebuild and strengthening our VIP supporter scheme, which you will play a key part in supporting. 

What we are looking for: 

• Experience managing and moderating social media channels. 
• Experience of planning, running, and reporting on paid for advertising on Meta. 
• Experience of website marketing including SEO principles and GoogleAds. 
• Website CMS management experience. 
• Digital copywriting experience for a range of social media channels and for websites. 
• Experience of reporting tools such as GA4, Meta Business Manager, or Hootsuite. 
• Knowledge and experience of analysing the results of marketing activities, identifying key insights and reporting. 
• Knowledge of creative software including Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop), video editing software (Adobe) and Canva. 

Ideally, you will have experience of working as part of team on a website rebuilding project. You will be a proactive and self-motivated professional with the ability to plan, prioritise and manage tasks. 

Most importantly, you will be passionate about the transformative impact our assistance dogs provide to our beneficiaries. 

We can offer you: 

• 33 days annual leave allowance (inclusive of bank holidays)
• Salary exchange pension scheme (matched up to 5%)
• Charity (occupational) sick pay 
• Life assurance 
• Wellbeing portal 
• Employee assistance programme 
• Free on-site parking (for site based or visiting roles) 
• Dog friendly offices (for site based roles) 
• Flexible working hours 
• Claimable business/travel expenses 

This role can be delivered from our purpose-built training centre in the rural countryside of Osgathorpe, Leicestershire (hybrid), or remotely from home with occasional travel. Travel for this role is ad hoc, based on the needs of the charity and typically to facilitate content creation e.g., photoshoots, videos with beneficiaries, volunteers etc. any travel required is distributed amongst the team in relation to location and capacity (claimable expenses for business travel as required).  We will provide a laptop, additional screen, and iPhone for use in the role. Other relevant equipment will be made available as required. 

Application Deadline: 29th January 2025

First interviews are scheduled to take place online (via MS Teams) on 06 February 2025. 
Second interviews are scheduled to take place at our National Training Centre, Osgathorpe, Leicestershire on 13 February 2025.  
*Subject to changes

Application Details: If this sounds like the perfect role for you, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please apply online via the website link below with a comprehensive CV and supporting statement explaining how you believe you match the requirements of the role. 

Website Link: Digital Marketing Officer – Job page – Careers with Canine Partners