Marketing Intern

The deadline for this vacancy has passed.

Reports to	Marketing Manager
Location	London (hybrid)
Salary	£25,642
Start date	ASAP
Contract type	Fixed term contract, nine months
Closing date for applications	9am, Monday 29th July

About Unlocked 

Unlocked Graduates exists to break cycles of reoffending. Currently prison isn’t a place which successfully does this: the average prisoner has 16 previous convictions and 48% reoffend within a year of release. Not only does this recidivism make our communities less safe, it also represents a huge waste of human potential. And it is expensive, costing the taxpayer over £18 billion every year. 

We believe the most effective way to ​change this is by recruiting, training and challenging the best graduates in the country to become frontline prison officers. These future leaders bring innovation and a different kind of problem-solving expertise to a hidden and underfunded public service. In the same way an outstanding teacher can transform outcomes for a child, an exceptional prison officer has the power to alter the course of a prisoner’s life. Our award-winning two-year graduate development programme equips these individuals to lead rehabilitative change from the inside out. In return, they get a fully funded master’s degree, a highly competitive starting salary, and career development they won’t find anywhere else. 

About the Role 

We’re looking for a marketing intern to support us in attracting outstanding individuals from a multitude of backgrounds who can make a real difference within prisons.  

You’ll be joining our Recruitment and Marketing team as we enter our 2024-2025 recruitment cycle. To maintain our mission of finding the best graduates, this role will be fundamental in ensuring the delivery of a variety of content and time-crucial comms to prospective participants across various channels. You’ll also take the lead on growing our social media platforms, adapting our message to our audiences.  

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to get their foot in the door in marketing, working in a fast-paced innovative team where you’ll learn new things every day. You don’t need technical marketing knowledge as we can support you in developing these skills. Instead, we’re looking for someone who has a flair for writing, a solid understanding of different audiences and how we might attract them, and a willingness to get stuck in and take opportunities to explore new concepts and learn new skills.    

By the end of this fixed-term contract, you’ll have gained a huge range of marketing experience including social media management skills, how to produce engaging content within short timelines, an understanding of how marketing analysis influences campaigns, how to effectively use marketing tools, and the confidence to deliver a successful marketing campaign.  

Key accountabilities 

You will: 

• Support the Marketing Manager in the delivery of our recruitment campaign 

• Work with our marketing agency and media partners to deliver recruitment marketing activity  

• Support the Recruitment Officers in the ordering and distribution of marketing collateral  

• Take ownership of the social media calendar and work with the Communications Officer to plan upcoming activity 

• Lead on community management of our social media channels  

• Work closely with the External Relations and Communications team on the development of content 

• Work with the Communications Officer to reach out to influential stakeholders to create case studies, testimonials, blogs, videos, podcasts etc.  

• Set up and deliver events and webinars 

• Build, test and send emails, automated emails and newsletters to engage prospective participants.  

• Create reports on social media and email performance 

• Maintain and update the website 

• Provide support with administrative and ad-hoc tasks 

Person specification 

You are: 

• Passionate about what Unlocked is trying to achieve 

• An excellent copywriter, someone who can write compelling content to attract different audiences 

• Organised with the ability to prioritise and manage time effectively, taking ownership of your work  

• Intellectually curious beyond your field of expertise and are constantly applying things you’ve learnt from other disciplines to your work 

• Someone with excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships internally and externally 

• A self-starter and not somebody who needs detailed supervision get things done  

• Technically proficient or can demonstrate the aptitude to learn how to use various marketing tools (e.g. Canva, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, WordPress, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Google Looker Studio, Pardot, Salesforce) 

• Somebody who has the right to work in the UK  

Diversity and inclusion 

The communities that we exist to serve are diverse, and to thrive in our work towards our mission, we must be too. We believe that diversity simply makes for a stronger team. We are actively seeking applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds to increase our racial diversity at all levels. We are also keen to see more applications from people who have been in prison. 

How to apply 

Apply with your cover letter and CV here. Please note we will not consider your application if you do not submit a cover letter. Applications close at 9am on Monday 29th July. 

For more information about the role, please email Naimah Omar (naimah.omar@unlockedgrads.org.uk).