Marketing Coordinator

Note:   If you are also experienced in fundraising, this role could be combined with our Fundraising Coordinator vacancy to create a full-time role.  Please see our Fundraising Coordinator advert for further details. 

FareShare Greater Manchester is the region’s largest food redistribution charity, fighting food poverty and hunger by tackling waste. We source good quality food that is surplus to requirements from retailers and manufacturers. We rely on an army of volunteers to help redistribute this food to almost 300 frontline charities such as school breakfast clubs, community centres and organisations supporting those who are homeless, unemployed, and socially isolated.

Our Marketing Coordinator will help us to build FareShare Greater Manchester brand via effective internal and external communication designed to engage more followers to broaden and deepen our positive impact.  You'll have excellent interpersonal skills, be self-motivated and highly organised, and able to work independently. 

Working collaboratively, you'll design content and produce marketing materials, press releases, and newsletters, plan and write social media posts with fresh and creative content, and help update our website. 

Essential experience includes:

• Experience of working in a marketing/communications role
• Knowledge of traditional, digital, and content marketing
• Excellent verbal and written communication/copywriting skills, able to express complex ideas in simple and effective language.
• Solid project management skills in order to manage multiple projects at the same time
• Excellent admin skills and a strong attention to detail
• Able to present and assess data effectively, using it and operational experiences to form informed opinions and advise managers and other colleagues
• Strong level IT competence

We are happy to consider flexible working arrangements across all our vacancies.