Marketing Sheffield Assistant Project Officer

Are you passionate, enthusiastic, and motivated to show the world how great Sheffield is? If so, then becoming an Assistant Project Officer in the Marketing Sheffield team could be the role for you. If successful, you would play a key role in delivering some of our key projects that seek to promote Sheffield to the world.

Working as part of a fast paced, small and agile team that pride themselves on getting things done, you will have the unique opportunity to work with senior managers, council colleagues, local private sector businesses (or individuals) and marketing or specialist delivery agencies to support the delivery of some of our most exciting projects.

Marketing Sheffield is the area of the council responsible for promoting Sheffield nationally and internationally. We have recently been successful in attracting funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to enable delivery of some inventive, exciting, and new campaigns and events. We work extensively with city partners to promote Sheffield by developing forward thinking marketing activities and campaigns that enhance the city image. These activities, events and campaigns seek to attract talent, investment, visitors, businesses, or students to Sheffield by showcasing the city’s distinctive offer.

We manage Sheffield’s place brand and work to encourage its adoption and use, presenting a collective and consistent approach to an external audience. We have recently delivered a new and state of the art website (www.welcometosheffield.co.uk) ,launched ‘Look Up’ (an augmented reality art trail), worked with both Universities to deliver a world-first approach to student recruitment, and continued to support, champion and promote the city’s culture, music, food & drink and Outdoor City offer.

Marketing Sheffield sits within the Economy, Skills and Culture Directorate which includes several teams working on stimulating economic growth, whilst tackling the twin challenges of climate change and inequality.

Take a look at our website to see more about our work and key audiences. www.welcometosheffield.co.uk

For informal enquiries, please call Emma France on 0114 273 4125 or email emma.france@sheffield.gov.uk.

The practicalities

We recently adopted a hybrid model of working, with approximately 40% of your time based in the office or in and around Sheffield.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled, and LGBTQ+ people; so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. Sheffield City Council are proud members of the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.