Marketing Officer (Sports and Leisure)

Are you passionate about promoting health, wellbeing and active lifestyles? Do you love creating marketing campaigns that get real results? If you're a creative, digitally savvy marketer looking to develop your skills in a dynamic team, we’ve got the perfect opportunity for you!

We’re on the lookout for a Marketing Officer to work within our Sports and Leisure team to cover maternity leave for up to 12 months. The role forms a key part in promoting Chelmsford City Council’s four leisure centres, driving awareness of our exciting range of fitness memberships, sports facilities, wellbeing initiatives and community events.

As our Marketing Officer, you would help deliver eye-catching, results-driven campaigns across digital and traditional channels. The successful applicant will work across a variety of projects to promote all aspects of the leisure environment and support income and membership growth targets through the production of engaging marketing as well as developing targeted, data-informed campaigns to reach both existing and new audiences. Alongside this, the creation and scheduling of content for websites, email marketing, social media and digital screens as well as producing compelling copy and creative for ads, posters and leaflets is also a key aspect of the role.

Applicants should have a passion for fitness, sports and leisure and experience in marketing or a similar field, particularly in the use of Canva, email CRMS’s and video editing software. With a strong digital skillset and confidence using and interpreting data from social media platforms, the successful applicant will possess excellent interpersonal skills and a hands-on approach to manage multiple projects and deadlines whilst building positive working relationships with the leisure centres and other clients. The ability to travel to and from the leisure centre sites in Chelmsford and South Woodham Ferrers is also essential.

The role is advertised as full time, 37 hours per week working from Monday – Friday with some occasional evening and weekend work to support events and campaign launches.

Interviews are currently scheduled for the week commencing 16th June.

Find out more about Chelmsford and Working for the City Council by viewing our Uncover Your Potential brochure above.

As an accredited Essex Family Friendly Employer, this full-time role can be job-shared or part-time if we can fill the remaining hours. Please mention this in your supporting statement. if you are interested. For more details please visit: https://www.essex.gov.uk/family-friendly-charter.

Chelmsford City Council is committed to safeguarding vulnerable groups and expects all employees to share this commitment and have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services. The Council's Safer Recruitment process contains pre-employment checks which includes safeguarding training, obtaining references and ensuring compliance with Disclosure and Barring Service process.