Marketing and Communications Officer

Job Title: Marketing & Events Assistant

Salary: National Living Wage

Hours: Part Time – 21 hours per week

Location: Heritage Centre, Winlaton Mill, Blaydon-on-Tyne, NE21

About the Employer

Our client, an environmental, sustainable and community charity works across the UK helping communities find practical solutions to the challenges they face. They provide training and create jobs, reduce energy use and waste, re-connect people with nature and transform whole neighbourhoods. Step by step they will go on changing places and changing lives until everywhere is vibrant and green, every community is strong enough to shape its own destiny and everyone can reach their potential.

About the role

Are you a creative, organised, and enthusiastic individual with a passion for marketing and events?

This charty is looking for a Marketing & Events Assistant to join their friendly team. This exciting and varied role offers a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in marketing, events coordination, and visitor engagement across a vibrant portfolio of sites, including the a Heritage Centre near Blaydon-on-Tyne and a Business Centre in Stanley.

You’ll work closely with the events, operations, and retail teams to create engaging marketing content, support the delivery of memorable events, and help keep the organisation's sites looking their best. This is a supportive role where you will be encouraged to share ideas, develop skills, and make a real difference.

About you

This employer is looking for someone who is:

  • Creative and confident with social media.
  • Organised, with strong attention to detail.
  • Comfortable working independently while being a great team player.
  • Willing to work flexibly, including occasional evenings or weekends for events.
  • Familiar with Canva or similar design tools (experience is a bonus, but training can be provided).

Why Join this Charity?

  • Be part of a welcoming and supportive team that values your ideas.
  • Gain valuable experience in marketing, events, and visitor engagement.
  • Work in inspiring locations that celebrate heritage, creativity, and community.

Closing date: Midnight on Friday 3rd October 2025

Please note: should a high volume of applications be received, this employer may look to close the role early, therefore it is recommend to complete an early application.

Interested?

To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.

Make yourself at home

This organisation wants you to be yourself and value everything that makes you unique. They recognise and celebrate your difference and together make for a great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer they offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

They ensure that they provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that they organise. They are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk.?Their safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people they appoint are suitable to work with their children, young people and adults.

This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.

No agencies please.

CHM £12.21 per hour Winlaton Mill