Senior Communications & Marketing Officer

Are you a marketing professional looking for your next challenge? Then we may have just the job for you.

We’re looking for a Senior Communications & Marketing Officer to design and lead our communications and marketing strategy for the Isle of Wight portfolio.

Interviews will be held on the 24th of April. 

The holiday team complete the portfolio by managing 17 holiday cottages. We’re a varied team, with diverse skills, all working together with volunteers, the local community, neighbours and other partners to look after these special places for all, now and in the future. 

You’ll be our Marcomms professional lead on Isle of Wight, report to the Visitor Operations & Experience Manager, manage a Communications and Marketing Officer, but work very closely with our wider National Trust regional and national Marcomms teams as well as colleagues across the whole organisation.

You’ll be based at our estate office in Mottistone, but one day you could be photographing at Mottistone Gardens, perhaps the next capturing the stories surrounding The Needles Old Battery, another exploring a piece of seasonal visitor experience programming on the Newtown National Nature Reserve, or a few days out with our rangers looking at our countryside and nature restoration work or on the water with the Harbourmaster. 

You’ll be flexible hybrid working across all our sites, liaising with a wide range of internal and external contacts on and off Island, as well as working from home. 

You’ll lead on the development and delivery of the Isle of Wight Marcomms plan, covering the Island portfolio. Planning is important for us, we must adapt to fluctuating seasonal visitor profiles and adjust to most benefit as a major UK tourist destination.

You’ll also make sure that we deliver our plans, and that we’ve got great content to feed in to our digital and social media channels, linking our visit driving work with our countryside nature conservation effort and purpose as a charity. You’ll do all this working with a great team of staff and volunteers with huge knowledge and passion, and through living our National Trust values.

We're looking for someone who is great with people, who can quickly absorb information and produce creative and engaging marketing content as well as planning and delivering reactive and proactive complex communications within a busy environment. 

We'd love to hear from you, if this sounds like you: 

• able to prioritise workload and deliver to tight deadlines. 
• able to work in a team. 
• able to create great written content and imagery. 
• strong communication skills
• deliver a creative and exiting marketing strategy all year round. 
• a keen eye for detail