Marketing Assistant Apprenticeship

Squirrel Gifts

ULVERSTON (LA12 7LS)

Closes in 14 days (Tuesday 9 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 26 August 2025

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Summary

Squirrel is offering a flexible, part-time apprenticeship, focused on marketing. This is a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience across a variety of marketing channels, which can fit around your studies. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to have direct experience and there is the opportunity to progress.

Wage

£11,778 to £19,047.60, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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This will depend on age and experience but within the range of £7.55 to £12 per hour.

Training course
Multi-channel marketer (level 3)
Hours
Shifts will be structured to fit with the Shop Team and Apprentice’s Course requirements but will include Saturday working.

30 hours a week

Start date

Monday 15 September 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

Be part of the Squirrel shop Floor team. Working on the shop floor you will gain a really valuable insight into our stock, reaction of customers and our working ethos.

Working with professionals engaged in SEO work for us and the owner and other staff you will:

  • Assist in developing and running multi-channel marketing campaigns (email, social media, digital, print, etc.)
  • Help create and schedule content for platforms like Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and newsletters
  • Support basic analytics and reporting on campaign performance
  • Participate in team brainstorming sessions and contribute creative ideas
  • Conduct industry and competitor research to support marketing strategy
  • Help with website maintenance and content creation

Where you'll work

43 MARKET STREET
ULVERSTON
LA12 7LS

Training

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

Training provider

KENDAL COLLEGE

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.

Training schedule

Training will take place at Kendal College. Day and time to be confirmed.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English (grade 4 or above)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience
  • Polite

About this employer

Squirrel is 10 years old his year in the current location. The business is actually 30 years old. We have an eclectic selection of stock including many popular brands but put great effort into finding new suppliers and include products from many small suppliers. Our tagline is ‘A store of buried treasure’ and we curate our displays and select our stock with this in mind. We have recently relaunched our online shop and are investing in improving our visibility online.

http://www.squirrel.gifts (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

There will be opportunities to progress within our team or to continue with further studies.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

KENDAL COLLEGE

Katie Jones

Katie@Squirrel.gifts

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000338826.

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Closes in 14 days (Tuesday 9 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

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