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Job title – Marketing Officer - National Events, Commercial Visitor Development and Camping

Salary - £35,039

Contract type – Fixed term contract (1 year - maternity cover)

Hours – 37 hours per week

Vacancy closes - Friday 13th November at 23:58

Join us. We're foresters, professionals and experts. We are a passionate team who love to share our enthusiasm and want to make a positive difference for you and the environment.

Together, we’re using our scale and expertise to grow the nation’s forests for everyone. We’re already adapting our landscapes for tomorrow, and getting stuff done today, like creating amazing places and experiences for you to enjoy. We're providing vital homes for wildlife, making our air cleaner to breathe and producing sustainable timber.

What you’ll do…

Support the delivery of marketing campaigns for Forestry England’s national events programme, including the Forest Live concert series and seasonal illuminated trails, alongside promotional activity for overnight stays and camping products. The role is responsible for creating and delivering digital marketing and communications activity that drives ticket sales, audience growth, brand awareness and revenue generation. Key duties include content creation, email marketing, social media management, digital advertising, stakeholder engagement and campaign coordination. The post holder also supports customer communications, including contingency and crisis messaging, and works closely with internal teams, external partners and suppliers to ensure consistent, effective promotion of Forestry England’s events and accommodation offers.

A key feature of the role is supporting some of Forestry England’s highest-profile public engagement activities. This includes Forest Live, one of the UK’s longest-running outdoor concert series, which attracts more than 140,000 attendees annually and has featured internationally recognised artists such as Sting, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Fatboy Slim, Becky Hill and Paloma Faith. The role also contributes to the marketing of nationally recognised festive and Halloween illuminated trails, helping to engage new audiences and generate commercial income. Through these flagship experiences, the post holder plays an important role in showcasing Forestry England’s work to millions of visitors and customers nationwide.

The role supports the marketing for overnight stays at Forestry England, working with the Overnight Stays Marketing Manager on their digital marketing activity for one day a week, overseeing digital marketing channels including social media, digital ads and email marketing in collaboration with accommodation partners to ensure consistency of messaging and brand throughout all joint activities.

Please see the job description below for more information and details about what we need from you.

Where you’ll work…

Bristol office is the preferred location.

However, this role can be based at any Forestry England office, with travel to the Bristol office expected 2- 4 times per month.

Blended (home and office) working is available for this role.

Benefits…

Alongside your salary, Forestry England contributes an average of 28.97% towards your pension. You will become a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.

• 25 days holiday a year, raising by one day every year’s service, up to 30 days (pro-rated for part time employees) plus additional days off such as bank holidays.
• STaR is our employee benefits scheme offering discounts on everyday supermarket shopping, as well as other things such as hotel stays clothes, mobile phones, other electrical items, medical and car insurance, holidays, gym discounts, household bills, Headspace wellbeing app.
• free parking at Forestry England sites and free entry to our National Arboretums at Westonbirt and Bedgebury.
• a commitment to lifelong learning through career development. Forestry England will support your career development in a variety of ways, including continual professional development, support for individual learning plans and sponsored membership of professional bodies.

Read more about the benefits on the Forestry England website.

How to apply…

We cannot accept applications via email. Please follow the steps outlined below. Any CVs and/or personal statements sent outside the system will not be considered for shortlisting.

You will be asked to write a 200 word statement on your relevant experience and career history, along with a personal statement of no more than 500 words. You will be assessed on both during sifting. More details about how to apply are listed on the application form.

The Behaviours being assessed at interview are –

• Changing and improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working together
• Delivering at pace

You may also be assessed on Experience, Strength based questions, and/or the Technical Success Profile at the interview. The technical element could include a presentation, practical or written task.

Successful candidates will undergo a criminal record check and the government baseline personnel security standard check.

If you require any reasonable adjustments, please email fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk.

If you're planning to use AI to support your application, please ensure you've read our guidelines here first.

Read more about our application process and working with us on the Forestry England website.

Nationality requirements…

Read more about nationality requirements here.

Working for the Civil Service…

Forestry England is part of the Civil Service. The Civil Service has a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). This means candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria during the application process will be guaranteed an interview. We also offer a Redeployment Interview Scheme to current civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the role. This role is also part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans and Prison Leaver Recruitment initiative.

Within Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, it is essential that applicants should have the ability to provide conversation in accurate spoken English.

Our recruitment process makes appointments based on fair and open competition and merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in in line with/according to these principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email: englandhr.services@forestryengland.uk.