Digital Marketing Officer

Aston Centre for Growth, at Aston Business School, designs and delivers business support programmes for SMEs (face to face and online) and provides other business support opportunities for entrepreneurs. The fast-paced and productive Centre has a small team of 10-15 people. The programmes currently delivered by the Centre for Growth team include Help to Grow: Management, Minerva Birmingham Pitch Up, Green Advantage Skills Bootcamp, Social Economy Growth Programmes (SEG),Shropshire Leadership Programme (SLP), Birmingham Skills for Enterprise and Employability Network (BSEEN) and the Aston Centre for Growth Networking Group. The Centre also delivers shorter bespoke programmes in collaboration with external partners.

The Centre works alongside leading research centres ERC (the national Enterprise Research Centre) and CREME (Centre for Research into Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship). Through these centres of excellence Aston has built a significant role in the West Midlands region and nationally in promoting inclusive growth through impactful research and business engagement. Aston was awarded the Gold Standard Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in 2023 and University of the Year by the Guardian and THE Outstanding Entrepreneurial University in 2020.

The Digital Marketing Officer will work collaboratively with team members, strategic partners and stakeholders to identify and attract eligible business professionals to engage with Aston Centre for Growth’s business support programmes. They will deliver a range of marketing activities, including digital to successfully create pipelines and recruit businesses to programmes and activities and support the development and delivery of those activities within the Centre.

What we offer

• Aston University is a dynamic and vibrant campus located within Birmingham city centre, which has excellent transport links via bus or train.
• The role is offered as 'dynamic working', which means working both on campus and from home dependent on the activity. Further information on dynamic working can be found here.
• Excellent training and development opportunities.
• A generous annual leave scheme with 30 days bookable leave and a further 13 days bank holiday and University Closure days.
• Everyday discounts to a number of activities and retailers
• Great family friendly policies
• On site gym and pool with discounted staff membership available
• Further information on our Benefits and Rewards can be found here