Digital Marketing Officer
2 days ago
Birmingham
Join us in the fight against hunger and food waste - your creativity and passion could change lives across the Midlands Job Title: Digital Marketing Officer Reporting to: Marketing & Communications Manager Location: Coronation Food Hub, Birmingham - hybrid working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 4 days/30 hours considered Contract: Interim (minimum 6 months) to permanent Salary: £26655 per annum About FareShare Midlands FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity, tackling inequality, transforming lives and ensuring no good food goes to waste. We rescue surplus food and redistribute it to over 650 charities and community organisations, helping to feed around 60,000 people every week. Alongside food redistribution, we invest in people and communities through volunteering, education and employability programmes. With the opening of the Sir Peter Rigby Coronation Food Hub in Birmingham, we are entering a significant period of growth, innovation and increased impact across the Midlands. The Role This is a hands-on Digital Marketing Officer role created to support the overall marketing and communications, with specific responsibilities in respect of employability programmes and overall Hub-based activity. Working closely with the Senior Marketing & Communications Manager and the wider MarComms team, the postholder will deliver engaging, practical marketing and communications activity that supports: • General marketing and communications, • Employability SkillsShare programmes, • Project-based initiatives such as local pantries, • Internal communications and staff/volunteer engagement Key Responsibilities Digital Content & Video o Impact stories and case studies o Employability programmes and participant journeys o Internal communications and staff engagement • Capture and edit short-form and long-form content aligned to brand guidelines, • Work closely with the Employability team to support recruitment, engagement and promotion of SkillsShare programmes, • Create accessible, engaging content for participants, employers and funders, • Support marketing and communications for Hub-based initiatives, projects and pilots (eg catering, hospitality, pantries) o Events and Hub-based activity o New routes to market and community projects • Collaborate with other MarComms officers to deliver integrated campaigns where needed, • Support email marketing activity in collaboration with the Senior Manager and Digital Marketing Officer, • Contribute content for internal communications, working alongside the Senior Digital Marketing Officer, • Act as a brand champion, ensuring consistency and quality across outputs, • Contribute to basic reporting and insight gathering to support evaluation and improvement, • Work collaboratively with colleagues across Marketing, Employability, Volunteering and Fundraising teams Essential • Experience in a digital marketing or communications, • Strong video content creation and editing skills, • Excellent written communication skills and attention to detail, • Experience creating content for social media and digital channels, • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a busy, evolving environment, • Experience in the charity, public or social impact sector, • Experience supporting employability, skills or community programmes, • Graphic design skills and confidence using design software, • Experience contributing to internal communications If you would like to apply for this role, please create a supporting statement to demonstrate your suitability and to explain your interest in both the job and FareShare Midlands. Please send your supporting statement with a copy of your CV. We continue to strive to ensure that the profile of our staff and volunteers reflects the diverse communities we serve across the Midlands. As such we encourage and welcome applications from all our communities. We particularly welcome applications from people from ethnically diverse backgrounds as they are currently under-represented within FareShare Midlands. Closing date for applications is 12pm on Friday 27th February 2026