Digital Communications Executive
Job Description
Job title: Digital Communications Executive
Company: Advertising Standards Authority
Job description: The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Wednesday 10th April 20241st interviews will be via Teams on 24th – 26th April 2024We now have an exciting opportunity for a Digital Communications Executive to join us to support the Digital Specialist, the Comms team, and the broader organisation to meet their objectives through digital solutions.Reporting to the Communications and Marketing Manager you will support the ASA and CAP in reaching and engaging with our audiences through consistent and high-quality digital outputs, taking ownership of day-to-day publishing, as well as feeding into the development of our digital comms policies, processes and standards.Our Digital Communications Executive will ensure that our website, social media, and video content is produced, published and promoted to reach our online audiences. You will be our eyes-and-ears online to identify any immediate or urgent customer service or reputational risks as they first appear.Developing monthly content calendars for social media, you will take ownership of publishing and promoting posts, assist in the creation and publishing of newsletters to subscribers and will assist with the creation of ads and campaigns using paid-for social media channels. You will also collate metrics and statistics to demonstrate the effectiveness of ASA and CAP digital marketing work.About youWe are looking for a marketing professional with experience of working in digital marketing, either in-house or through agency work.You will have experience of managing social media channels, previously used image editing programs such as Photoshop or Canva and have knowledge of online content publishing and content management systems such as WordPress.Good relationship management, organisational and administrative skills are essential, and you will have the ability to interact with all levels of the company, including Senior Management. You will also need good IT literacy skills, specifically Microsoft Office.What can we offer you?Holiday entitlement starts at 25 days and builds up to 30 days after 5 years’ service, with an option to buy or sell up to 5 days each year. We also offer an extensive range of benefits, including Life Assurance, interest free season ticket loan, membership of our contributory pension scheme, child care vouchers and membership of our Employee Assistance Programme, which provides confidential support and advice. We also have a number of other flexible benefits, such as dental insurance and critical illness cover, which you can choose to buy annually through our flexible benefits provider.We are committed to supporting individual career development and all vacancies are advertised internally to give staff the opportunity to develop their careers.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.We welcome applications from all sections of the community so if you would like an interesting and varied career in media regulation and have the passion and drive to help us achieve our goal to make every UK ad a responsible ad we look forward to hearing from you soon.INDMEDWe are the UK’s independent frontline regulator of ads by legitimate businesses and other organisations in all media, including online. We are authoritative and influential on ad regulation; the centre of expertise. The rules we administer and enforce are contained in the UK Advertising Codes, written by the industry Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP). To help maintain our independence from the industry that funds us, we are primarily funded at arm’s length by the Advertising Standards Boards of Finance (Asbof). Together, the ASA, CAP and Asbof make up the ASA system.Our purpose is to make sure ads are responsible. Our ambition is to make sure every UK ad is a responsible ad. Our values are to be proactive, collaborative, accountable, transparent and decisive. We want external stakeholders to find us to be: independent in administering the Codes; evidence-based, proportionate, targeted and consistent; and reflective of society, not a social engineer.We are passionate about what we do because responsible ads are good for people, good for society and good for business. They entertain and inform us, helping us to choose products and services. They fund the media, sport and culture we all enjoy. They can be a force for social good, encouraging us to contribute to good causes, make more responsible choices and stay safe. And they help deliver competition and power the economy. By making sure ads are responsible, we protect people from being misled, harmed or offended, helping them feel more confident in the ads they see and hear.email:
Expected salary: £36500 per year
Location: London
