Apprentice Marketing Assistant

Summary

City of York Trading Ltd (CYT) are recruiting an Apprentice Marketing Assistant (Apprentice Multi-Channel Marketer), ideally starting in August 2025. This is a great opportunity to join our friendly team based in our York city centre office.

Wage

£19,292.84 a year

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Year 1 (first 12 months of training) equivalent of National Minimum Wage for 18 to 20 yrs. Year 2 and beyond (from 12 months in training) equivalent of National Minimum Wage for 21 yrs plus.

Training course

Multi-channel marketer (level 3)

Hours

Monday - Friday, 8.30am - 5.00pm

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 4 August 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

With CYT recruitment brands – WorkwithSchools, WorkwithYorkshire, Williams & Anthony, alongside WorkwithYork LImited, we provide a wide range of temporary and permanent staff to a huge variety of clients.

Working with and reporting to our Marketing and Communications Manager you’ll promote these brands to candidates and clients, using digital and print materials and in-person events

This is an excellent opportunity to learn about branding, social media management, managing websites and digital skills in general as well as print media, customer service and event planning and management.

Duties include:

Using digital tools and systems, including LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook , Canva, Mailchimp, Wordpress, Survey Monkey and DocuSign to create relevant and engaging content, across different formats, to promote our recruitment services to attract prospective clients and candidates, and our recruitment brands in general
Maintaining and using a Social Media calendar with key dates and schedule/post timely and relevant content to grow engagement
Providing practical marketing support in planning events
Attending some events, including open days, jobs fairs and exhibitions to promote our brands
Creating content for the brand websites, making sure it is kept up-to-date and developing marketing alongside new content
Creating or sourcing adverts across digital and print to promote brand job vacancies
Managing marketing materials in particular branded merchandise including liaising with designers to deliver new materials and ensuring appropriate levels of stock are held
Assisting with producing reports including for planned marketing campaigns, candidate and client market research and with producing marketing analytics reports to consider return on investments and inform future strategic marketing planning
Responding to queries in the Marketing and Events inboxes
Greeting visitors , answering the phone, taking messages and answering general enquiries

Where you'll work

29 Castlegate
York
YO1 9RN

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

VQ SOLUTIONS LTD

Your training course

Multi-channel marketer (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

Develop or interpret briefs for external or internal stakeholders and measure delivery in-line with the specification and agreed timelines
Plan and coordinate a marketing activity using marketing tactics to acquire and retain one or more customer segments using available resources.
Contribute to the generation of innovative and creative approaches across video, images, and other formats, both online and offline, to support campaign development.
Use research/survey software to gather audience insight and/or evaluation to support the project.
Use copywriting techniques to write persuasive text/copy to meet a communications objective ensuring it is in-line with organisational brand guidelines.
Build and implement multi-channel campaigns across a variety of platforms, either offline or digital media.
Proofread marketing copy ensuring it is accurate, persuasive and is on brand.
Use software to design and create marketing assets to meet the technical specification.
Contribute to the research of external suppliers to support recommendations and procurement of marketing goods and services.
Organise offline and digital assets ensuring they are co-ordinated and legally compliant.
Use a website content management system to publish text, images, and video/animated content.
Create and maintain spreadsheets to support marketing activities such as project/budget planning and organisation of marketing assets.
Use technology and software packages to support day to day activities, e.g., stakeholder communications, development of briefs, data analysis, report writing, presentations and project management.
Identify and use data and technologies to achieve marketing objectives.
Monitor and amend campaigns to meet budget requirements including time and monetary costs.
Review campaigns regularly to ensure effectiveness, to optimise the results.
Measure and evaluate campaign delivery to identify areas for improvement.
Use data analysis tools to record, interpret and analyse customer or campaign data.
Develop or interpret briefs for external or internal stakeholders and measure delivery in-line with the specification and agreed timelines
Plan and coordinate a marketing activity using marketing tactics to acquire and retain one or more customer segments using available resources.
Contribute to the generation of innovative and creative approaches across video, images, and other formats, both online and offline, to support campaign development.
Use research/survey software to gather audience insight and/or evaluation to support the project.
Use copywriting techniques to write persuasive text/copy to meet a communications objective ensuring it is in-line with organisational brand guidelines.
Build and implement multi-channel campaigns across a variety of platforms, either offline or digital media.
Proofread marketing copy ensuring it is accurate, persuasive and is on brand.
Use software to design and create marketing assets to meet the technical specification.
Contribute to the research of external suppliers to support recommendations and procurement of marketing goods and services.
Organise offline and digital assets ensuring they are co-ordinated and legally compliant.
Use a website content management system to publish text, images, and video/animated content.
Create and maintain spreadsheets to support marketing activities such as project/budget planning and organisation of marketing assets.
Use technology and software packages to support day to day activities, e.g., stakeholder communications, development of briefs, data analysis, report writing, presentations and project management.
Identify and use data and technologies to achieve marketing objectives.
Monitor and amend campaigns to meet budget requirements including time and monetary costs.
Review campaigns regularly to ensure effectiveness, to optimise the results.
Measure and evaluate campaign delivery to identify areas for improvement.
Use data analysis tools to record, interpret and analyse customer or campaign data.

Your training plan

Multi-Channel Marketer Apprenticeship Standard
Level 3 Marketing qualification (training provider: VQ Solutions Limited - generally 15 months of training, followed by approx 3 months End Point Assessment - one day per week remote learning)
On-the-job training from line manager and wider team
Accreditations including Google Fundamentals of Digital Marketing (Google Garage), Google Analytics 4, WordPress and Cisco Academy Internet of Things

More training information

After initial induction period in the office, home working may be available to enable apprentice study days at home if required, or a quiet room can be made available onsite

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade Level 2)
Maths (grade Level 2)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Enthusiasm
Willingness to Learn
Confidence

About this company

Based in York city centre , with City of York Trading's recruitment brands WorkwithSchools, WorkwithYorkshire, Williams & Anthony alongside Work with York Limited we provide a wide range of temporary and permanent staff to a variety of clients. Please visit our websites for more details www.workwithschools.co.uk; www.workwithyorkshire.co.uk; www.williams-anthony.co.uk; and www.workwithyork.co.uk

Company benefits

Profit related pay schemes Dog friendly office in central York Perkbox benefits including discounts and rewards Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme Workplace Pension

After this apprenticeship

On completion eligibility to register as an Affiliate Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing
Potential for employment within the company on successful completion of this apprenticeship and support with further training
Potential for other employment on successful completion of this apprenticeship as a Marketing Assistant, Digital Marketer or Multi-Channel Marketer

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CITY OF YORK TRADING LIMITED

Clare Leaver

claire.leaver@workwithyork.co.uk

01904 554474

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000322165.

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Closes in 19 days (Thursday 12 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

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