Marketing Assistant
Entry level role promoting our new platform to students at events across the UK.
The Role 🛼
We are looking for three enthusiastic Marketing Assistants to join our team! This is a three month fixed-term contract supporting on campaigns and events during the busy autumn term. The Marketing Assistants will be working with our team of Brand Ambassadors to ensure our campaigns and events are set up and performing. If you're recently graduated, interested in marketing or account or project management, confident and personable, keep reading!
Our Audience 🎟
Our audience is young people aged 13-24, comprised of mostly school leavers and university students. You will be directly engaging with our university audience to inspire them with work experience opportunities.
Core Responsibilities 🍏
Events:
Supporting our whole offline marketing strategy by attending university fresher fairs and careers fairs to promote our brand new platform Higherin.com (rebranding from RateMyPlacement.co.uk) to students across the UK.
Talking and engaging with students at fairs, to encourage them to give us their data, which feeds directly into our student database. You will be given targets before each event that you will be motivated to reach.
Making sure all the data is captured correctly and the data is synced after each event.
Updating social media at each event.
Making sure that at each fair, our stand looks amazing.
Organise event logistics for each fair, including travel, overnight stays, and sending collateral to and from the fairs.
Liaise with universities and suppliers to ensure the smooth running of events.
Reporting on the number of students signed up at each event on our spreadsheet and inputting student feedback.
Hiring and managing teams of student Brand Ambassadors for each university fair.
Marketing:
Content creation - support with creating content for social media channels for our brand new student platform, Higherin.com
Review moderation - moderating student reviews from placements and apprenticeships for our platform.
You are right for this role if... ✅
Excellent understanding of the English language (both spoken and written)
Quick learner with great initiative
You are willing to travel throughout the UK, up to 3 events per week.
You are confident in the role of solo on-site event manager at campus events.
Amazing (but not essential) if... 💭
Previously undertaken work experience while at university
Previous events or hospitality industry experience
Attended careers fairs/ student recruitment events
Been a Brand Ambassador
Helped with the creation and organisation of events
Experience working in a target-driven environment
Hybrid working✨
We have a hybrid work set-up, whereby you'll be expected to work from our office in Brixton a minimum of 1 day per week. Additionally, there will be regular travel to universities across the UK as part of this role.
Salary 💰
£28,500 per annum, pro-rata. We are committed to paying the London Living Wage.
Contract Dates
This is a three month contract starting on Tuesday, 2nd September and going through Thursday, 27th November.
Application process 💻
- Written or video application and CV screening.
- Google Meet interview
- Assessment Centre at our offices in Brixton, London on Tuesday, 12th August
All candidates must have proof of right to work in the UK. We cannot provide visa sponsorship for this role.
Applications for this role will be accepted through Friday, 25th July. Unfortunately we cannot accept applications after that date.
- Department
- Marketing
- Locations
- Higherin HQ
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Yearly salary
- £28,500
- Employment type
- Temporary

Colleagues
Higherin HQ
To ensure a fair and equitable recruitment process...
- We look for a ‘culture add’ NOT a ‘culture fit’.
- No degree? No problem. We don’t require degree-level qualifications.
- We are open to flexible working arrangements.
- We do not rely on a gut feeling.
- We have representative hiring panels.
About Higherin
Our mission is to inspire young people to take the first steps in their career, and it's at the centre of everything we do.
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