Vacancy: Design and Marketing Co-ordinator

About the role

Job title: Design and Marketing Co-ordinator

Contract: Permanent, full-time (35 hours per week)

Starting salary: £26,250

Closing date: 14 October 2025 at 23:59

Location: Flexible hybrid working between home and our Edinburgh City Centre Office, with great access by train, bus, and tram

Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement
• Company sick pay
• Pension with 5% employer contributions
• Death in service benefit
• Free access to employee assistance programme

About the job

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Key responsibilities

• Design, devise, plan, and project manage marketing communications campaigns to promote our key messages and programmes to new and existing school, community and library audiences and key stakeholders
• Through close liaison with School Communities team, project manage the team’s promotional materials from planning, setting timelines, developing, and agreeing design and ensuring delivery
• Work with the Design and Marketing Manager, to deliver inhouse design, using specialist and technical skills
• Appoint and liaise with printers and manufacturers, sourcing quotes and using good negotiation skills where appropriate
• Work with the Design and Marketing Manager, to ensure brand and accessibility vision and guidelines are communicated and adhered to across the organisation
• Support the Scottish Book Trust Marketing team with preparation and design of assets, for social media and print, and provide a support role across all social media channels
• Work closely with the Head of School Communities, Design and Marketing Manager and PR and Marketing Manager to evaluate the effectiveness of marketing communications campaigns and print materials
• Support the Website Manager, Digital Project Manager and Head of Social and Digital Marketing to maintain and develop the digital elements of the School Communities programme
• Work with School Communities team to highlight opportunities through Scottish Book Trust’s social media channels
• Manage the School Communities communication, working closely with the CRM team to prepare and schedule mailings
• Plan and prepare the monthly schools and libraries newsletter and quarterly families newsletter, liaising with the Head of Social and Digital Marketing and School Communities team
• Book advertising with relevant partners to promote our School Communities programmes, and develop advertisements with designers as needed
• Work with the Learning Content Manager and other members of the School Communities Team to help to create and format learning resources to support Book Week Scotland and School Communities programmes

Knowledge, skills and experience

You will have:

• Strong project management and planning skills
• Experience of planning and project managing marketing communications campaigns
• Specialist and technical knowledge of producing design, and experience of project managing print production to agreed deadlines
• Ability to manage external third parties such as manufacturers and print companies to deliver quality work to agreed deadlines and on budget
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across teams and negotiate achievement of objectives
• Excellent copy writing, editing and proof-reading skills
• Experience of working with web teams and social media to promote events and activities
• Experience of marketing, ideally in an arts, literature or education sector
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities
• Knowledge of the literature sector is desirable
• Experience of using Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Canva is desirable

Other information

• The post is a hybrid role with regular attendance at Scottish Book Trust offices in Edinburgh required
• Appointment will be conditional on securing a Level 1 from Disclosure Scotland
• Flexible working options are available

How to apply

Step 1: Download and complete our application forms

We do not accept CVs. To apply for this role, please complete both part A and part B of our application form, uploading them as PDFs if possible.

Download application form part A

Download application form part B

Step 2: Upload your completed forms to our recruitment portal

Ready to submit your forms? Click the button below and complete these steps.

• Add your contact information
• Click 'next' when you are ready to upload your documents
• Add your title to the document page
• Upload (or drag and drop) the files and click 'Upload' after each document
• When both documents are uploaded, submit your application

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