Marketing Officer

Salary - £33,854 per annum

Hours – 37 hours per week

Vacancy closes - Sunday 28th June, 23:58

Contract type – Fixed Term (until March 2027 with potential for extension)

What You’ll Do

This is an exciting opportunity to tell the story of our forests as welcoming and inclusive green spaces, available for everyone to enjoy. You will be responsible for growing awareness of our accessible recreation offer to attract new and existing audiences. This will be achieved through developing engaging content and campaigns, signposting people to find accurate and relevant information that will support them to plan their visits. You’ll work to grow advocacy among key target audiences and build relationships with relevant partners to highlight our work. The role sits within the National Engagement, Marketing & Communications team and involves working closely with national programme colleagues to increase awareness of our accessible visitor offer and supporting regional marketing colleagues with the tools they need to promote local facilities and reach specific audiences.

Where you’ll work

This role can be based at either the Coleford, Tetbury or Lyndhurst office, though commutable distance to our Bristol office would be preferable to support regular face‑to‑face contact with national marketing colleagues. Blended working is possible.

Benefits

• Alongside your salary, Forestry England contributes an average of 28.97% towards your pension. You will become a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.
• 25 days holiday a year, rising by one day each year’s service, up to 30 days, (pro‑rated for part‑time employees) plus additional days off such as bank holidays.
• STaR is our employee benefits scheme offering discounts on everyday supermarket shopping, as well as other things such as hotel stays, clothing, mobile phones, other electrical items, medical and car insurance, holidays, gym discounts, household bills and the Headspace wellbeing app.
• Free parking at Forestry England sites and free entry to our National Arboretums at Westonbirt and Bedgebury.
• A commitment to lifelong learning through career development. Forestry England will support your career development in a variety of ways, including continual professional development, support for individual learning plans and sponsored membership of professional bodies.

Nationality Requirements

Read more about nationality requirements here.

Working for the Civil Service

Forestry England is part of the Civil Service. The Civil Service has a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria during the application process will be guaranteed an interview. We also offer a Redeployment Interview Scheme to current civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the role. This role is also part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans and Prison Leaver Recruitment initiative.

Within Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, it is essential that applicants should have the ability to provide conversation in accurate spoken English. Our recruitment process makes appointments based on fair and open competition and merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.

If you feel your application has not been treated in line with/according to these principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email: englandhr.services@forestryengland.uk.