Marketing and Communications Officer

We are looking for a passionate and confident Marketing and Communications Officer to support CAT’s promotional activities. The role is full-time and based at CAT with some home working.

About CAT

The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) is an internationally renowned environmental charity, a world-leading eco centre, and one of the foremost providers of postgraduate environmental education in the UK, based near Machynlleth in Mid Wales.

CAT provides inspiration, education and training in solutions to the climate and biodiversity emergency.

Key activities include a visitor centre where people can see solutions in action, residential short courses, vocational training and postgraduate degrees in a wide range of sustainability-related topics, with online courses and events offered alongside in-person learning.

Job Details:

Reference: MCO240805
Location: Regularly working at CAT’s eco centre, Machynlleth, Mid Wales with opportunity for some flexible home working
Contract type: Permanent
Responsible to: Co-Heads of Marketing and Communications
Responsible for: No line management responsibilities
Hours: Full-time: 37.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE)
Working Days: Normally Monday to Friday, with occasional evening/weekend working

Salary and employee benefits:

£24,174.50 p.a.

CAT offers a generous annual leave allowance of 25 days p.a., plus bank holidays (usually 7- 9 days), plus additional allowance at Christmas (usually 3 days), plus 1 extra day for every year worked (up to 5 days).

CAT also offers an attractive package of employee benefits, including:

a free cooked lunch and free hot drinks from the café whenever working from the CAT eco centre
40% discount on retail goods purchased from CAT
Opportunities for CPD training, qualifications & professional memberships to be funded by CAT
Opportunity to take 2 CAT short courses per year free-of-charge
the opportunity to purchase additional holiday days
a ‘Cycle to Work’ scheme (planned)
5% pension contribution
generous maternity and paternity entitlement and Death In Service benefit
2 hours per month for general health & wellbeing & 2 hours per month for Welsh language tuition.

Application deadline: 9am 16 September 2024

Interviews to be held: Week commencing 23/30 September 2024 (on site)

Expected start date: As soon as possible

Overview of the Role

The Marketing and Communications Officer will focus on producing high quality bilingual written and visual content across a range of media, including social media, web content, promotional emails, printed materials, press releases and feature articles.

Working within the marketing and communications team, you will be confident in translating CAT’s marketing and communications strategy and plan into written content for different platforms and publications. The role will provide support for the promotion of all areas of CAT’s work, including helping with online listings and other advertising, assisting with events at CAT and elsewhere.

You will have experience in copywriting and editing, with a demonstrable ability to adapt your copy to suit different platforms and audiences, as well as being a strong proofreader with a good eye for detail.

We often work to tight deadlines so you will be happy to work quickly and effectively to produce strong, impactful content in support of the marketing and communications strategy.

This is a key role in helping to support and promote CAT’s mission to inspire, inform and enable humanity to respond to the climate and biodiversity emergency.

Main Responsibilities

General duties

Contribution to marketing and communications strategy and planning.
Contribution to CAT-wide media and marketing work as required.
Provision of assistance and cover for others in the team as required.
Assistance with administrative duties including invoice coding, timesheets and all other paperwork.
Any other appropriate duties as defined by the departmental managers.

Duties specific to Marketing and Communications Officer

Sourcing and production of high-quality content in support of communications and marketing plans.
Writing, copyediting and proofreading content including blogs for CAT’s website and CAT’s in-house supporter magazine, Clean Slate and other key communications from across the organisation.
Working with the Digital Marketing Officer and Co-Heads of Marketing and Communications to plan out, write and edit social media content, including copy for multimedia formats.
Plan and capture video and photo content from CAT’s activities for the purposes of promotion and communications.
Support all aspects of CAT’s promotion, including attending events and fairs, placing adverts and updating online listings, and promotion through external mailing lists, flyers, posters and writing presentations.
Work with CAT’s graphic designer to help produce print advertising.
Regularly checking that on-site promotional materials are available and up-to-date.
Carrying out market research and analysis to inform promotion strategies.
Keeping up to date with environmental issues and solutions.
Undertake daily administrative tasks to support the department’s activities.

To learn more about the role download the full job description:

Applications should be forwarded to vacancy@cat.org.uk by the deadline stating the job title in the Subject line.

Any queries should be addressed to vacancy@cat.org.uk

Applications are required, CVs will not be accepted.

Job description: Marketing and Communications Officer