External Marketing & Communications Business Partner (Maternity cover)

Position Overview

We are looking for a creative External Marketing & Communications Business Partner to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract (Maternity cover). We would consider full time and part time options.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Promoting services: You will work with all business areas to showcase our service offers and wider community impact.
• Marketing campaigns: You will develop and deliver innovative campaigns with clear, consistent messaging.
• Community engagement: Close involvement with our community engagement teams, you will help grow visibility of their activities and impact through events, showcases and local initiatives.
• Brand consistency: As our brand champion, you will ensure our brand is promoted cohesively across all audiences and spaces.
• Connecting teams: Using your knowledge of all our business areas, you will join them up to celebrate and share our group-wide impact.
• Content generation: Creating engaging content from our communities and operational areas that can be shared across multiple platforms and people groups.
• Networking: Representing Acis Group at relevant events to raise awareness and build reputation, working in collaboration with other departments.
• Targeted campaigns: Planning and delivering campaigns such as access to our higher education and GCSE courses.

Qualifications

• A good level of proven experience in marketing and engagement roles, including campaign delivery.
• Strong planning and organisational skills - detail-focused and deadline-driven.
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills.
• Experience in delivering successful digital marketing and advertising campaigns.
• A degree or significant proven experience in marketing, communications or a related field.
• Resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in a regulated environment such as housing and/or education.
• Proven experience in delivering successful external positioning events.

What will make you stand out from the crowd

• CIM qualification.
• Hands-on experience leading change initiatives.
• Knowledge of multi-channel marketing – including social media, email, and event-based campaigns, with the ability to integrate messaging across platforms.
• Proficiency in analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Google Analytics, social media insights) to measure campaign impact and inform future strategies.
• Creative design or content development skills – familiarity with tools like Adobe Creative Suite or Canva for producing high-quality visual and digital assets.

Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement – 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Pension contributions up to 10%.
• The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us.
• One day paid leave a year for volunteering work (in addition to your annual leave entitlement).
• Staff benefits with Paycare – a health and benefits scheme giving you support and contributions towards various health benefits such as counselling, eye tests, vaccinations and much more.
• Benefits with Acis Perkz – a discount scheme giving you savings off hundreds of schemes including discounts on your coffee, weekly shop, days out and much more.
• Employee recognition scheme, where we celebrate and award our Stars within Acis, including gift vouchers.
• Long service awards for our loyal employees.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support when you need it.
• Professional membership subscription to support your continuous professional development.
• Death in service benefit as part of our pension scheme.