Hours: 5–6 hours per week, flexible by agreement
Contract: 6 monthly with a possibility of extension
Location: Southwark/South East London; remote work with occasional site and event visits
Reports to: Director, working alongside a Marketing Mentor
Our client is a London-based environmental social enterprise working to create more space for wildlife across the city.
The organisation collaborates with local communities and partner organisations to transform highly urban spaces into wildlife-friendly environments. Its work promotes wildlife-friendly planting, low-carbon gardening and community-led nature recovery.
The organisation is entering an exciting phase of growth, expanding its work into additional London boroughs and building a small paid team to support delivery.
About the role
We are looking for a creative and reliable Social Media & Marketing Assistant to help raise the organisation’s profile and keep its digital content and marketing materials fresh, engaging and consistent.
You will work closely with the Director and a Marketing Mentor, translating wider marketing guidance into practical content and accessible communications.
Key responsibilities
- Plan, create and schedule content for Instagram and LinkedIn.
- Produce engaging posts, stories, reels, graphics and short-form videos.
- Attend selected events and site visits to capture photographs, videos and stories.
- Help document key projects and occasional high-profile horticultural events.
- Coordinate with professional photographers when specialist coverage is required.
- Maintain and update the organisation’s Squarespace website.
- Adapt existing marketing templates and graphics originally created in Adobe InDesign.
- Create user-friendly versions of materials that colleagues can update without specialist design software.
- Maintain consistency across written and visual communications.
- Help put the organisation’s wider marketing strategy into practice.
- Organise digital assets so they can be easily accessed and reused.
- Monitor basic engagement and identify successful content.