We Are Looking to Appoint a Marketing Assistant - School Leavers Closing date for application is : 22nd February 2026
Interview date : 5th March 2026
Aims of Job/Job Purpose An all-round marketer, the post holder will predominantly focus on engaging with local feeder schools, initiating, developing and maintaining relationships with Teachers and Careers Officers, to ensure school leavers are aware of the full range of courses available at South & City College Birmingham
An enthusiastic and personable individual, you must be passionate about providing young people with the opportunities to learn the value of vocational courses, A Levels, T Levels and apprenticeships, and where they can lead to. The successful candidate will attend events such as assemblies, parent's evenings, careers days and practice interviews, alongside co-ordinating taster sessions at the college.
With your hands-on knowledge of the target audience, you will support the college's digital marketing strategy by developing content and communications that increase engagement with prospective students as they begin the customer journey.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities - Plan, organise, and attend events at local schools. Co-ordinate appropriate staff, literature, exhibition stands and transport
- Deliver engaging, interesting and effective presentations at external events
- Responsible for tracking, analysing and reporting all data collection activity on a monthly basis. Reporting from enquiry - prospectus request, event enquiries, and registrations through to attendance at Open Days and application.
- Monitoring the effectiveness of schools liaison activity and preparing reports for management.
- Support the Assistant Marketing Director by reviewing the attendance at local schools and identifying potential schools/colleges to work with closely to improve applications.
- Help the Assistant Marketing Director to organise a broad range of college taster events and visits for school pupils with Faculty Administration Managers.
- Develop outstanding email workflows and content that engages prospective students
- Find and promote opportunities for other college staff to engage in schools' careers programmes.
- Supporting Open Days with responsibility for ensuring a suitable range of demonstrations, tours and activities at each college campus.
- Ensuring a school contacts CRM is maintained and appropriate analysis and feedback of data given.
- Market research and feedback on new courses.
- Undertaking any other duties commensurate with the nature and grade of the post.
The Job Description for this role has been attached, please refer to it for more detailed information. About South and City College Birmingham We are one of the largest further education providers in the UK, with eight campuses across the city. We are committed to ensuring students have the relevant skills, qualifications and experience for their future, whether that is to seek employment or continue their education.
Our vision is to be recognised as an outstanding educational and economical resource by, providing outstanding education, training that is primarily vocational in response to the needs of the learners, employers and other key stakeholders.
At South and City College Birmingham, equality, diversity and inclusion are integral to who we are and what we do. We are firmly committed to promoting and imbedding the key principles for all within our institution, from our learners to our staff, governors, employers, visitors and contractors.
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[email protected] Safeguarding The college is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young adults and expect all staff to share this commitment.
The successful applicant will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks. including, enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
All applicants will be required to provide a minimum of two suitable references covering a 5-year period.
An online search will also be carried out as part of our due diligence on all shortlisted candidates.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected' so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are employers cannot take them into account.
Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
Safeguarding is our top priority. We encourage all applicants to review our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy, which outlines our commitment to the safety and wellbeing of learners.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore, the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
