Social Media and Marketing Apprentice
RSPCA DANAHER ANIMAL HOME FOR ESSEX
Essex (CM7 4EP)
Closes in 24 days (Friday 12 December 2025)
Posted on 17 November 2025
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Summary
As a Social Media & Marketing Apprentice you will support content creation, scheduling and marketing campaigns while promoting our home and shops. You will gain hands-on experience in social media, marketing strategies and delivering fundraising ideas. Whilst gaining professional guidance from an experienced Marketing Manager and supportive team.
- Wage
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£13,741 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Multi-channel marketer (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 4.00pm with 2 x 30 minute breaks or 1 x1 hour lunch break.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 19 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
Day to day role responsibilities will include:
- Assist in the creation of new content across the home’s social media platforms and support the monitoring and responding to comments in line with the home’s policies and procedures
- Research and plan a yearly social media schedule to ensure key events, such as Volunteers Week and Adopt a Shelter Animal Day, are recognised and promoted
- Work alongside the Animal Welfare Staff to safely film and produce TikTok/social media videos with the animals, staying up to date with current social media trends
- Engage with Retail Manager and shops to create posts which support the marketing and promotion of Danaher Charity shops and their products
- Engage professionally and proactively with customers and followers across social media platforms
- Contribute to the creation of posters and visual media to promote the home and its work
- Attend events at the home to capture and share content for social media and marketing purposes
- Undertake sector specific research around social media trends and activities to bring forward new ideas and develop our social media offer
- Provide support to the Social Media and Marketing Manager with the administration of the Corporate Sponsorship Programme and similar as required
- Update the ‘Success Stories’ and ‘News and Events’ sections of the website with relevant information
- Undertake any other duties as directed by the Social Media and Marketing Manager
Where you'll work
Thorley Farm Hedingham Road
Wethersfield
Essex
CM7 4EP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
COLCHESTER INSTITUTE
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
- The apprentice will be working towards the Multi-Channel Marketer Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
- All delivered within the workplace via online training and at Colchester Institute Campus every other week
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Applicants must be 18+ (under 18’s not licensed to work on our site). A driving license/easy travel access is needed due to the remote location with no direct public transport routes. There will also be lots of spending long periods working on a computer.
About this employer
Danaher is an independent registered animal rescue charity based in Wethersfield, Essex. Each year we rehome hundreds of lost, abandoned or ill-treated dogs, cats, and small animals. Whilst affiliated with the RSPCA, we are an entirely self-funding charity which could not exist without our generous supporters and volunteers, and rely heavily on fundraising, marketing and our social media coverage.
https://danaheranimalhome.org.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Work place pension. Flexible working location (in agreement with Manager). Employee Assistance Programme.
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
- After this apprenticeship, there are a variety of career paths an applicant could pursue
- Potential roles include Social Media Coordinator, Content Creator, Digital Marketing Assistant, or Marketing Assistant/Manager. In the longer term, there may also be opportunities within our company in social media or marketing, allowing individuals to further develop and apply the skills they have gained during the apprenticeship. There is no guarantee of future employment
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
COLCHESTER INSTITUTE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000350042.
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Closes in 24 days (Friday 12 December 2025)
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