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Digital Marketing Apprentice
Job Title: Digital Marketing Apprentice
Pay Rate: £9379.50
Contracted Hours: Full Time
Location: Studio based near Stratford upon Avon
Please apply via the government apprenticeship website: https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/1000090072
Closing date: 17 October 2022
Are you all about connecting with people?
Are you always on your phone? Do you love social media? Are you always finding new memes or gifs to share? Is connecting with people what you are about?
Chin Badger Media is seeking a new Digital Marketing Apprentice to join our expanding team. Someone who is self motivated, highly organised and creative, that can help us share content in exciting and customer focused ways, as well as maintain and monitor the smooth running of our website behind the scenes.
If you want to be a part of an exciting and growing creative business then this is for you.
About Chin Badger Media
We are a video production and photography business fulfilling a wide range of commercial video production and photography needs for our customers.
We are all about connection – helping our clients to connect with their chosen audiences, whether that’s for commercial, educational or charitable purposes.
The range of our video production work is significant, from chunky educational video series to short video ads for social media.
Most of our photography consists of branding photography for companies including: headshots, people at work, products and services.
Our clients include: local councils, large corporate businesses, charities, small and medium sized businesses and single business people.
We strongly believe in collaboration and work with a lot of other creative businesses on joint projects or on a freelance basis, and in 2019 we started The Creative Cakestorm group to support creatives and freelancers.
Our workload and team has tripled in the past 12 months and we are looking for someone to help us develop the business to the next phase, so that we can create exceptionally high quality content to attract more customers and higher production value work.
The role would be based in our studio. Some remote working may be possible after the first three months, but it is anticipated that you’ll need to be at the studio working in collaboration with the rest of the team most days.
Main duties:
- Creating marketing collateral and content for the company website, social media, campaigns and emails.
- Implementing our marketing strategy and promotional activities using multiple platforms including – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Mailchimp – expanding to TikTok.
- Analysing and reporting on data and assisting the team in the preparation and implementation of the commercial and marketing strategies.
- Helping to manage our customer relationships management software.
- Responding to customer queries on our social channels and digital social groups.
- Creating and uploading content on the company website.
- Writing and proofreading copy.
- Photography and video creation for social and web use.
- Ensuring brand values and guidelines are maintained across all digital channels.
- Evaluating marketing campaigns using tracking and analytical software and assessing the results.
- Regular SEO optimisation checks and reporting.
- Researching market trends, demographics, pricing strategies, and other relevant information to aid the development of marketing plans.
- Providing fact-checking, copy-editing, and formatting assistance during the creation of website content, and other promotional materials.
- Undertaking daily administrative tasks to ensure the functionality and coordination of the business’ activities including helping with photo and video shoots and prepping kit.
Education / Qualifications
5 GCSEs grade A*-C/9-4 or equivalent (including English and Maths)
Any A level or university experience preferred but not necessary – an ‘I can’ attitude is far more important.
Skills and Knowledge
- Great interpersonal skills and a team player
- Possess a creative flair to help devise and carry out marketing campaigns
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Able to adapt to fast-changing situations
- Pro-active, accurate and fast
- Calm under pressure
- IT skills: word processing, spreadsheets, basic photo and video editing on mobile, experience using Adobe Creative Cloud would be advantageous
- Confident using a camera to take photos and videos as needed
Benefits of joining Chin Badger Media
Chin Badger Media offers a fun and creative working environment with capacity to really grow your skills. We offer 20 days holiday a year plus all Bank Holidays, a paid volunteering day each year to enable you to support a charitable organisation/community project of your choice and Nest Pension Scheme (after 3 months continuous employment).
Chin Badger Media actively promotes a culture of recognition that encourages every team member to excel and Chin Badger Media offers all staff a comprehensive range of CPD which supports development from both an organisational and individual perspective.
This could lead to a permanent position if you are the right fit with us.
Please apply via the government apprenticeship website: https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/1000090072
Closing date: 17 October 2022
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The Team Behind Chin Badger Media
Charlie Budd
Founder, video producer, photographer, writer
Also known as The Tall Photographer, Chief Cake Eater and current custodian of The Chin Badger. Charlie has taken over one million photographs over the past 40 years, and shot and edited hundreds of videos. Everything Charlie does is about helping people to connect, to each other, to the best parts of ourselves and to the planet (he was a wildlife conservationist for 12 years). He loves collaborating, a creative challenge, ancient woodlands, and cake.
Liv Radburn
Videographer, photographer, editor
Liv gets things done, despite Charlie frequently going off on a tangent. Already an accomplished photographer, Liv was new to video when she joined the team but is now a key lynchpin on all video productions, with a keen technical and aesthetic eye and superb editing skills. She loves ticking off one project and launching onto the next, style, cheese sandwiches, KitKats and telling Charlie to put things away properly.
Kelly-Ann Grimes
Organiser, strategist & Charlie’s PA
Kelly-Ann makes sure the business is running as a business, and Charlie isn’t just wandering around the hedgerows taking pictures of butterflies. She’s in charge of accounts, project management structures, and making sure Charlie makes more money than he spends on cake. Kelly-Ann also runs the Pink Spaghetti PA Service in Stratford-upon-Avon and Leamington Spa. She loves flamingos, chocolate, garden gnomes, dahlias and beach holidays.
Jules Fallon
Strategic and creative director
Jules has owned her own successful, creative business, Sew Me Something, for over 10 years. Her strategic, creative and business experience is invaluable in taking Chin Badger Media forward in leaps and bounds. She has the dubious privilege to be married to Charlie for which he is eternally grateful except when she tells him off. Jules loves the sea, her cats, chickens and children although not necessarily in that order on any particular day.
We Care About
The environment
“The Earth is what we all have in common.” – Wendell Berry
Our home planet is amazing and we need to care more for it. Sustainability is at the core of everything we do. We have planted hundreds of trees between us, and raised thousands of pounds for wildlife conservation.
Creativity
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
Creativity and curiosity are integral to what makes us human – everyone is creative, even if they think they aren’t. Together with Lynda Holt from Brave Scene we created the Creative Cakestorm group to support fellow creatives – we meet monthly.
People
“If you see someone without a smile today, give ’em yours.” – Dolly Parton
Everything we do at Chin Badger Media is about connecting people – to each other, to the wider world, to another part themselves. We believe in being kind, making people smile and laugh, and sharing cake.
Education
“He who laughs most, learns best” – John Cleese
We are all enthusiastic life-long learners at Chin Badger Media – it’s part of our creativity and professionalism. We also love to help others to learn – which is why one of our specialisms is filming educational content for all ages, from Shakespeare for primary schools to ceramics for adults. And we do it with warmth and humour.
Sustainability Pledge
If you see Charlie’s background you may not be surprised we particularly care about both people and the planet.
We use an electric vehicle and reduce energy use wherever we can.
We carefully consider the environmental impact of everything we buy, from paper to cameras and we buy second hand when we can.
We plant 10 trees for every project we do via female-led, community-based organisations.