Marketing & Communications Officer

Summary Passionate about marketing with a feeling and meaning? We are looking for someone with creative brilliance and bold ideas to inspire deep, emotional connections to encourage supporters to join, donate, volunteer or visit Castle Ward, Murlough National NatureReserve and the Mourne Mountains. You’ll be at the heart of the important relationship between people and these uniquely beautiful places and you will have the power to make a genuine impact on the future of the National Trust.

Do you thrive in a fast-moving, dynamic and varied working environment? We are looking for someone who can work collaboratively with a range of teams across our diverse portfolio, create a buzz around the exciting projects we are working on and bringingnature, beauty and history to life to engage new and existing audiences.

Do you have a keen eye for detail and storytelling? Are you passionate about the creation and delivery of inspiring content across a range of channels? This role will suit a confident, innovative and ambitious individual who is willing to champion our causeto grow support for our special places.

What it's like to work here What an exciting portfolio to be a part of. From Castle Ward with its unique and quirky 18th century mansion, stunning historic landscape overlooking Strangford Lough and more recently renowned as site for HBO Game of Throne tours to playing a part in sharingwith our visitors the most famous and loved mountains in the country, the Mournes, and helping support the recovery of the devastating wildfires of last year and last but not least showcasing the extraordinarily beautiful dune landscape of Murlough NationalNature Reserve with its kaleidoscope of flora and fauna... you will be inspired daily in your work.

The South Down team is characterised by a strong ethos of working together across departmental boundaries, with a justified pride in the portfolio and the visitor offer.South Down is focused on a desire to deliver brilliant standards of conservation, visitorexperience, presentation, and service.You’ll also be working closely with every department from parkland to our collections, as well as collaborating with cross-functional regional colleagues who provide expertise, advice and support, and most importantlywith local community.

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What you'll be doing As the Marketing and Communications Officer you’ll manage and develop our annual marketing plan to help achieve our ambitious goals, helping us to reach out to new and existing audiences. This will include defining advertising activities and creating promotionalmaterials and updates (across all media platforms, including social media), writing and distributing press releases and representing us on location filming and broadcast media when you need to.

We're looking for someone who can help us reach wider and more diverse audiences, championing our ambition to be more welcoming and inclusive. You'll work as part of a team to make sure that we're sharing inspiring, exciting and varied stories, promotingour special places, visitor programmes and raising awareness of our conservation work to encourage support for our cause.

Although you will be working within the Visitor Experience team, you will be required to co-ordinate with a range of departments across the portfolio, including rangers, gardens, commercial, volunteer and community teams. You will also support with the DutyManagement role at property.

**Please also read the full role profile, attached to this advert.**

Who we're looking for To deliver this role successfully, you will need to have;
- A good understanding of marketing techniques, including websites as well as digital and social media
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent digital and social media skills
- Strong customer service skills
- Advanced IT Skills (including Microsoft Office)
- Problem solving skills, and ability to work on own initiative
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 audienceswe serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

Wherever you’re from, and whatever your background, we want to hear from you - and it doesn’t matter if you’re jam first, cream first, or even if you don’t like scones at all. Everyone is welcome.

Benefits for working at the National Trust include:

- Flexible working whenever possible
- Free parking at most locations
- Free entry to our properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
- Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary

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