Employer description:
Aardvark Swift is a specialist recruitment agency for the video games industry. They work with game development studios, publishers, and individual game developers around the world.
Aardvark Swift excel at putting great candidates together with studios that fit their skills and career aspirations. They've been doing this for over 30 years, evolving as a company alongside the studios and brands we work with.
Overview:
Aardvark Swift believe this experience, combined with a forward-thinking and proactive approach makes them the best in the business. Part of what makes them different from other recruitment agencies is their in-house marketing team – this is where you come in!
You will have the chance to gain valuable skills, knowledge and experience as you complete a L3 Digital Marketing Apprenticeship.
You’ll be supporting their marketing team on a broad mix of marketing activities, both digital and offline, relating to social media management, email marketing, brand awareness, content creation, employer branding, paid advertising, and SEO.
The Role Responsibilities will cover:
- Scheduling social media posts via a social media automation platform
- Supporting email marketing activity, building weekly campaigns, and analysing results
- Website maintenance and improvements including SEO and speed optimisation
- Supporting paid advertising activity
- Asset creation using Adobe suite (graphics and gifs)
- Supporting the creation of video content
- Editing and promoting job vacancies via our website and social media
- Supporting the planning, promotion, and organisation of industry events
- Monitoring and responding from company communication channels (social media and inboxes)
- Assist in producing periodical marketing reports
Aardvark Swift has a set of core values that are drawn from the history of the company, we hire, reward, and promote around our company values.
What we are looking for:
Desirable skills:
- Managed a social media channel other than your personal profile e.g. for a sports team, gaming clan etc.
- Familiar with Adobe suite: Premier Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
- Familiar with social media and email marketing
- Good standard of English Language and grammar
Qualities:
- Be team-centric – a positive team player
- Go above & beyond – be prepared to go the extra mile for colleagues and clients
- Deliver – take ownership and produce results
- Be resourceful – be adaptable, unfazed by challenges and work at finding solutions
- Be a grafter – give everything your best shot
- A desire to learn and grow as an individual
- A strong sense of teamwork
- A keen eye for attention to detail
Experience:
- Managed a social media channel other than your personal profile e.g. for a sports team, gaming clan etc.
Entry requirements:
The entry requirements for this programme are as follows:
- 3 GCSE’s (or equivalent) at grades 4+ (A-C) in any subject
- GCSE Maths and English (or equivalents) at grades 3+ (D or above)
- The learner must not hold an existing qualification at the same or higher level than this apprenticeship in a similar subject
You may also have a combination of qualifications and experience which demonstrate the minimum foundation needed for the programme. In this instance you could still be considered for the programme.
If you hold international equivalents of the above qualifications, at the time of your application you must be able to provide an official document that states how your international qualifications compare to the UK qualifications.
Find out more here:
https://www.enic.org.uk/Qualifications/UKQRS/Default.aspx
Salary:
£14,000 per annum.
Working week:
40hrs a week.
Future prospects:
You will either gain a permanent position or progress onto a degree apprenticeship once you have successfully completed the apprenticeship.
Important Information:
QA’s apprenticeships are funded by the Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), an executive agency of the Department for Education.
To be eligible for a Government funded apprenticeship you must have lived in the UK or European Economic Area (EEA) for the last 3 consecutive years.