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Marketing Officer
Location: North Shields
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week covering Monday to Sunday.
Salary: £28,276.98 – £34,262.52
Closing date: 09:00am Monday 16th November 2026
We offer a blend of home and office-based working arrangements, to support a healthy work-life balance for all our staff. This will be a minimum of one day per week working based in our office in the North East. Flexible working arrangements will apply to this post, which will necessitate weekend, evening and home working as required by the business need.
Team Fostering is an ethical, not-for-profit fostering agency with a strong reputation for providing high-quality foster care for children and young people. We are looking for a creative, enthusiastic and motivated Marketing Officer to join our Marketing Team and help promote fostering, enhance our brand and support the recruitment of foster carers.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the delivery of innovative marketing and communications activities across a range of digital and traditional channels. Working closely with colleagues across the agency, you will create engaging content, support social media and website activity, develop marketing materials, attend events and help deliver recruitment campaigns that increase awareness of fostering and attract prospective foster carers.
The successful applicant will have:
- Experience in a marketing and communications role.
- Knowledge of social media marketing and digital communications.
- Experience using design software to create engaging content.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- An understanding of SEO and digital marketing principles.
- Knowledge of marketing techniques and audience engagement.
- Strong organisational and project management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
- The ability to analyse campaign performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
- A proactive, creative and customer-focused approach.
- A commitment to improving the lives of children and young people.
- An understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality and professional boundaries.
- A current driving licence, access to a vehicle and the ability to travel as required.
Desirable criteria include experience of Google Analytics, PPC advertising, video creation/editing and knowledge of the not-for-profit sector.
In return we offer an exceptional range of employee benefits including:
- Monthly supervision
- Annual appraisal
- 30 days annual leave plus 8 days bank holidays
- A blend of home and office working
- A wide range of flexible working arrangements to support a good work life balance
- Flexi time
- Company sick pay scheme
- Pension scheme
- Staff loyalty bonus
- Employee assistance programme
- Retail discount scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life assurance cover
- GP Helpline
- Learning & development opportunities to support your continuous professional development
Team Fostering is an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer that is committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging at work. As we continue to grow, we know that we must have the most talented employees with diverse backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and experiences to support our children and young people. We encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented within the agency.
For an informal chat about the post please contact Jennie Derbyshire, Marketing Manager, at Jennie.Derbyshire@teamfostering.co.uk
To apply, please complete an application form and equal opportunities monitoring form below and return to HRrecruitment@teamfostering.co.uk
Please note Team Fostering does not accept CVs.
This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure