Marketing Assistant (Placement) (ED13611) – Bath, BA2 7AY
This position is only available to current undergraduate students at the University of Bath doing a placement in year 3.
Students must be studying within the departments of Social and Policy Sciences; Politics, Languages and International Studies; or Psychology.
About the role
We are seeking a Marketing Assistant to work with the Marketing team and wider Faculty in the effective promotion and recruitment of our courses to UK and international students.
The role covers a range of marketing activities including content production, copywriting for offline and online platforms, supporting social media, assisting with event support both in-person and online, helping to implement the Faculty’s advertising campaigns, and undertaking market research.
The role will be integral in the creation of relevant content for our target audiences both across video and photography.
You will be bringing your own experiences as a student into the team to advise and inform on marketing plans and activities.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Experience in using digital and online marketing channels (including social media)
- Ability to create engaging content for social media platforms
- A high level of literacy and copywriting skills with excellent attention to detail
- Experience navigating IT, database and presentation software
- Strong information management skills and able to analyse and present complex data
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to work collaboratively in a team and with different stakeholders
- Capacity to manage and prioritise workload and work on own initiative
- Strong work ethic, flexible and able to develop new skills quickly
Additional information
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
What we can offer you
We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:
- Free counselling services through Health Assured
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Staff discount at Team Bath gym
- Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
- Staff discount on language courses
- Generous employer contributory pension schemes
- Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
- A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
- Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
- Local discounts and more
- A family-friendly workplace
- An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.
Closing Date: 17 May 2026
Department: Management, Specialist and Administration
Salary: £25,912 . Appointments at Grade 3 will receive an additional pensionable supplement to ensure a minimum hourly pay equivalent to £12.00 in line with Voluntary Living Wage.
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