External Marketing & Communications Business Partner

External Marketing & Communications Business Partner (Maternity cover)We're looking for a creative External Marketing & Communications Business Partner to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract (Maternity cover). We would consider full time and part time options. This role is all about building our brand and reputation externally - through strategic marketing campaigns, community engagement activities, events and partnerships.

You'll help us connect with customers, partners and communities, driving awareness and growth while showcasing the impact we makeA typical day might look like:

• Promoting services:
  You'll work with all business areas to showcase our service offers and wider community impact
• Marketing campaigns:
  You'll develop and deliver innovative campaigns with clear, consistent messaging
• Community engagement:
  Close involvement with our community engagement teams, you'll be in the midst of helping the teams grow visibility of their activities and impact through events, showcases and local initiatives
• Brand consistency:
  Our brand champion, ensuring our brand is promoted cohesively across all audiences and spaces
• Connecting teams:
  Using your knowledge of all our business areas, you'll join them up to celebrate and share our group-wide impact
• Content generation:
  Creating engaging content from our communities and operational areas that can be shared across multiple platforms and people groups
• Networking: Representing Acis Group at relevant events to raise awareness and build reputation, working in collaboration with other departments
• Targeted campaigns: Planning and delivering campaigns such as access to our higher education and GCSE courses

Some of the experience / skills you'll need to be considered for this role:

• A good level of proven experience in marketing and engagement roles, including campaign delivery
• Strong planning and organisational skills - detail-focused and deadline-driven
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills
• Experience in delivering successful digital marketing and advertising campaigns
• A degree or significant proven experience in marketing, communications or a related field
• Resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in a regulated environment such as housing and/or education
• Proven experience in delivering successful external positioning events.

What will make you stand out from the crowd:

• CIM qualification
• Hands-on experience leading change initiatives
• Knowledge of multi-channel marketing - including social media, email, and event-based campaigns, with the ability to integrate messaging across platforms
• Proficiency in analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Google Analytics, social media insights) to measure campaign impact and inform future strategies
• Creative design or content development skills - familiarity with tools like Adobe Creative Suite or Canva for producing high-quality visual and digital assets.

Being part of the Acis team, you'll get:

• Generous holiday entitlement - 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Pension contributions up to 10%
• The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us.
• One days paid leave a year for volunteering work (in addition to your Annual leave entitlement)
• Staff benefits with Paycare - A health and benefits scheme giving you support and contributions towards various health benefits such as counselling, eye tests, vaccinations and much more
• Benefits with Acis Perkz - a discount scheme giving you savings off hundreds of schemes including discounts on your coffee, weekly shop, days out and much more!
• Employee recognition scheme, where we celebrate and award our Stars within Acis, including gift vouchers
• Long service awards for our loyal employees
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support, when you need it
• Professional membership subscription to support your continuous professional development
• Death in service benefit as part of our pension scheme

As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your application.Acis are committed to equality and diversity, are a proud member of disability confident and welcome applications from any applicant who feel they hold the essential skills to fulfil the role.

We recognise that people need flexibility in their role and we're happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate in addition to any aid with interviewing that you might need

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