About the role

As Marketing Executive, you will use your expertise to coordinate and deliver marketing projects to increase brand awareness and drive engagement with key Shelter Scotland audiences. You’ll be integral to ensuring we have a critical mass of people providing their voice in support of our work, encouraging new and existing supporters to act to address the housing emergency in their communities.

You will help to ensure Shelter Scotland can deliver on its ambitious supporter strategy – to use mass-mobilisation to achieve supporter growth and depth to win campaigns and achieve long-term change. By creating integrated marketing campaigns across paid, earned, and owned channels – including email marketing – you will drive engagement with key Shelter Scotland campaigns and activities.

About you

We’re looking for someone with a passion for digital and email marketing. Shelter Scotland needs someone with a passion for the cause and can increase our reach to support our campaigns addressing the housing emergency.

Knowledge of integrated channel planning and paid social media is beneficial, and we want you to be confident using data to assess the impact of our marketing. For further details on the criteria, please see the ‘About You’ section of the Job Description.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter Scotland help thousands of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About the team

Part of our Communications and Engagement team at Shelter Scotland, the Marketing and Engagement team includes a Supporter Mobilisation Manager, Senior Marketing and Brand Executive, Supporter Engagement Executive and Marketing Executive. The team work to deliver on Shelter Scotland’s ambitious strategy by leading targeted marketing activities to drive acquisition and engagement both locally and nationally.

Hiring for 2 roles. 1 full-time at 37.5 hours per week, and 1 part-time (0.5 FTE) at 18.75 hours per week.

Do you have some experience of advice work, preferably with a focus on housing issues, and a real desire to advance your specialist level knowledge? Then join Shelter Scotland as we look to hire 2x Housing Rights Workers and you could soon be playing a vital role in helping to identify and resolve the homelessness and bad housing issues facing local communities.

About the role

In our Community Team, we identify, investigate and intervene in housing and homelessness issues. We are engaged in our local communities to understand the housing issues people are facing, and we apply our expertise to work toward solutions. Lived experience of the housing emergency is at the heart of everything we do.

About you

Already with some relevant experience, you’re used to working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, have great time management skills and enjoy collaborating with people from other teams and organisations. The ability to listen to, engage and empower individuals and communities will be key. So will your willingness to challenge practice and hold people to account – including influencing decision makers. Adept at presenting information and arguments in clear and compelling ways, you have a real enthusiasm for delivering workshops and presentations too. What’s more, you’re a creative problem solver with an innate ability to gather evidence and identify insights, issues and trends and are proficient using Word, Excel, email, the internet and in-house CRM systems.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter Scotland helps thousands of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About the team

Our three Communities Teams are responsible for identifying, investigating and intervening in housing and homelessness practice issues. We engage with our local communities to understand the issues people are facing and apply expert housing knowledge, insight and analysis to identify solutions to them. As well as providing advice and advocacy for individuals, we also use our insight, relationships and influence to drive systemic change, always ensuring that lived experience is at the heart of everything we do.

Our North Team covers regions from Fife northwards and operates out of our two regional offices in Dundee and Aberdeen with the team spread across these locations.