Digital Marketing Apprentice – Wilmslow

Level 3 Digital Marketer

Company – Soft Surfaces

Full Address – 35 Water Ln, Wilmslow SK9 5AR

Weekly Hours Worked – Full time Mon-Fri

Salary – £172 p/w

Please contact Stephanie on stephanie.mallinson@estio.co.uk or call 01133 500 333

About the Company:

We have been established as Soft Surfaces Ltd since 1997 and have a great deal of experience in dealing with various projects in the sport and play industry.

Over the last 10 years we have expanded rapidly to become one of the leading playgrounds and sport facility installers in the UK. We have completed numerous installations of safe play area flooring, synthetic sports pitches, and multi-use games areas in a range of designs and sizes.

Brief job description:

Estio Training have an exciting new opportunity for a Digital Marketing Apprentice with Soft Surfaces, a surface distribution company based in Wilmslow.

Job Description:

Do you have an interest in creating content which will be viewed by thousands of people throughout the UK? Would you like to write content for a variety of different niches and learn great skills along the way? Our business is looking for young, passionate content writers to join our amazing team based in Wilmslow!

You’ll be with a team who have great experience within content and taught all the techniques to help your content rank and perform well on the digital landscape. Your content will be posted on live websites, social media profiles, press releases and more. All you need is a passion for creating amazing content that will deliver the reader a great user experience.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with an experienced team to understand what the aim of the content piece is.
• Learn new tools that will help with your content writing.
• Researching into the topic that your content piece is about.
• Apply SEO content writing practices to increase traffic to websites/social media profiles.
• Produce content in a variety of formats (e.g. blogs, explanations, updates).
• Perform keyword research.
• Structure your content around videos/images.
• Conduct research on Google Analytics to understand how your content is performing and how you could improve it.
• Creating content for a wide variety of different niches.
• Learning how to optimise content for search engines like Google.
• Become an expert with content writing tools.

Qualifications:

• 5 GCSEs grades A*-C/9-4 or equivalent (including English Language and Maths)

Skills Required

• Advanced knowledge of Social Media, email tools and technical knowledge of websites.
• Excellent communication and organisation skills
• Exceptional English literature and language skills
• Creative and passionate about Digital Marketing
• Can face criticism to help improve their writing
• Training is given by our team who have a wide variety of connections within digital marketing and content writing. This is a great opportunity for someone to make a career with their passion for writing content.

Future prospects:

The role offers long term security and the opportunity to progress into a permanent position.

Personal qualities:

• Friendly and Professional
• Punctuality
• Team Player and can-do attitude
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Enthusiastic to learn
• Able to use their own initiative when required
• Always gives their best effort
• Genuine interest in content writing

Future prospects:

The role offers long term security and the opportunity to progress into a permanent position.

Training to be provided:

Estio apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.

Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.

Successful completion of this apprenticeship gives you an accredited Level 3 Digital Marketer, with training in how to:

• Source, plan, develop and deploy digital content across a variety of channels including your website and social media.
• Execute multi-channel digital campaigns using online platforms.
• Monitor and evaluate channel and campaign performance using different analytical tools.
• Adopt a test and learn approach to digital marketing activities, making recommendations for improvement.

For a full list of programme modules visit: estio.co.uk/courses/digital-marketer