Leeds Castle, in Kent, is one of the country's leading heritage visitor attractions welcoming over half a million visitors each year. We now have an exciting opportunity for a talented and creative part time marketing assistant to join our team.

The person appointed will provide support and continuity to the Marketing and PR team and have be required to demonstrate good writing skills be creative, self-motivated and will possess excellent planning and organising skills. Good teamwork, strong communication skills and confidence are a big part of this role.

The job is offered on a part time basis working 22.5 hours each week. We are flexible how these hours are arranged and could be worked over three or five days.

Specific tasks will include:

 The maintenance and monitoring of paid and free directories/listings

 Writing and adding news stories for web and creating relevant content for social media channels, e.g. LinkedIn

 Taking responsibility for maintaining/updating the Leeds Castle customer and business databases

 Responsibility for monitoring the awards calendar and writing awards entries

 General administration and filing

Provide PR support including:
 Downloading and filing of digital press cuttings, compiling monthly coverage reports and creating specific campaign reports when required

 Responding to general press enquiries and sending out images. Drafting press releases, providing support organising press events

 Maintaining the media centre and notice board, keeping it up to date with latest releases, news stories and images

 Focus on hospitality PR (weddings, corporate, accommodation), writing advertorials, researching new press opportunities, drafting press releases, maintaining/updating hospitality PR calendar.