Events & Marketing Apprentice
EQUINOR UK LIMITED
South Shields (NE33 5SW)
Closes in 23 days (Sunday 26 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 2 October 2025
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Summary
This role will support the work of the Community Investment Manager and Communications Officer. You will support the Community Fund programme and wider work across local communities. You will have various responsibilities including (but not limited to): running school STEM events, planning offshore wind sector events and working on our website.
- Wage
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£21,000 a year
- Training course
- Multi-channel marketer (level 3)
- Hours
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Contracted number of hours per week: 30 hours a week plus study day. Working week: Monday – Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm with 30 minutes lunch.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
You will be supported to develop skills and confidence in all the areas below, and also have mentors with specialist knowledge in community investment and digital marketing.
- Coordinating the Operator Fund, our annual £80k small grants programme
- Organising volunteering opportunities for staff.
- Delivering presentations and workshops to engage school children and students with engineering and renewables.
- Host visits and tours of our operations base and vessel to key stakeholders.
- Support the content creation team by drafting, editing, and proofreading marketing materials such as brochures, press releases and blog posts.
- Communicate and collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders, such as operations, suppliers, and event organisers, to coordinate marketing activities.
- Conduct market research to identify trends, competitor activities, and new opportunities for engagement and outreach within the sector.
- Update the company's social media platforms, ensuring consistent messaging and engagement with the online community.
- Monitor and report on the effectiveness of marketing campaigns using analytics tools and offer recommendations for improvement.
- Assist in the planning and execution of events, such as conferences, exhibitions, and community outreach programmes.
Where you'll work
Dogger Bank East Side Equinor UK Ltd Port of Tyne Ltd
Enterprise Way
South Shields
NE33 5SW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GATESHEAD 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
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 3 other subjects (grade 4-9)
- English (grade 4-9)
- Maths (grade 4-9)
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
- Presentation skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Writing skills
- Positive, can-do attitude
- Willingness to learn
- Commitment
- Interest in social media
About this employer
Set to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm once complete, the wind farm is situated over 130km from the Yorkshire coast and will produce enough renewable energy to supply electricity to six million homes in the UK annually. The wind farm, a joint venture between SSE Renewables, Equinor, and Vårgrønn, produced first power in October 2023. This role is with Equinor, the partner that is running the operational phase of the wind farm. Equinor is an international energy company based in Norway. Our purpose is to turn natural resources into energy for people and progress for society. Equinor’s portfolio of projects encompasses oil and gas, renewables and low-carbon solutions, with an ambition of becoming a net-zero energy company by 2050. The wind farm runs a large Community Fund to support the communities where it has built assets – South Tyneside, Redcar & Cleveland and East Riding. This will provide £25 million of support to coastal communities across the North and North East of England over its planned 35-year operational lifespan.
Company benefits
• Competitive benefits are offered, including 26 days holiday + public holidays. • Successful candidate will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in the UK. • Onsite gym.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Possible progression to full-time employment or support to look for a permanent role at the end of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GATESHEAD COLLEGE
Lauren Usher
apprenticeships@gateshead.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000343762.
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Closes in 23 days (Sunday 26 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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