Jobs

Location:        Home-based currently due to UK coronavirus restrictions. Working at Guildford HQ when office reopens.

Salary:            £26,000 - £28,000 per annum

Contract:        Permanent, full time (37.5hrs)

Cycling UK, the UK’s cycling charity, is on a mission to make a better world by bike and looking for a creative marketeer, passionate about motivating audiences and making a difference, to join us.

For more than 140 years, Cycling UK has been inspiring people to ride, and with the amazing support of our members, supporters, and volunteers we’re bringing about real change.

We run Bike Week, the annual Women’s Festival of Cycling and inspire around 60,000 people every year to overcome the barriers stopping them cycling through our Big Bike Revival programme. We’re also making cycling safer through our campaigning work, lobbying Government to spend more money on infrastructure and educating drivers on sharing the roads safely.  

We have an exciting opportunity for a proactive marketing engagement officer to join our growing team to help promote our wide range of activities to various audiences, utilising the full marketing mix to develop our brand and raise the profile of cycling.

You will make an impact creating and delivering influential marketing promotions, including:

• Shaping projects that will engage a variety of audiences, including events.
• Delivering high quality content, including web, digital and email marketing as well as printed materials, that effectively promote the charity’s aims.
• Creatively developing activities to bring to life our messages.
• Applying skills and knowledge to support strategic objectives and business plans.

If you’re excited by the prospect of inspiring the UK about the amazing benefits of cycling, we want to hear from you.

To be successful you’ll have:

• Proven experience in marketing and event management, in commercial or charity sector.
• Experience of working across a broad range of marketing channels including web, social (including paid advertising), email marketing and print.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, presentation and copy writing skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and project management skills.
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines.
• Ability to be proactive, plan, deal with competing priorities and work collaboratively.
• Ability to translate strategies into tactical plans.

Tell us why you are the person to drive impact in this capacity and change lives.

Explore the job description for full details on this exciting opportunity. Complete the application form expressing why you are the right candidate for this opening and send to recruitment@cyclinguk.org.

Focus on gearing your supporting statement to exemplify how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role, directly referring to both the job description and person specification. This enables the selection panel to assess your relative strengths against the specified criteria.

Apply before 09:00 23 June 2021

Cycling UK are passionate about enabling people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities to cycle safely, easily and enjoyably. As the largest cycling charity in the UK, with the largest membership base, and a strong voice in Westminster and the devolved nations, we are well placed to continue to champion the role of cycling, cyclists, and active travel.

We have been working since 1878 to influence the world of cycling. Through our behaviour change and programme work during the past year we have helped over 150k people start or continue cycling. We are part way through a five-year strategy and are planning in the summer of 2021 to launch a refresh of this strategy to the end of 2023 recognising that much has changed, and in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

We are seeking to co-opt a trustee to join our Audit and Governance Committee. We are specifically looking for a trustee with legal expertise, in particular corporate governance or charity law.

If you are interested in playing a wider role in support of our aims, then we’d love to hear from you. The application pack below explains what we are looking for and how to find out further information.

We are keen to have as diverse and inclusive a board as possible, with people coming from a wide range of backgrounds, places, and perspectives. We welcome applications from younger people and underrepresented groups in cycling including ethnic minority groups. As well as a passion for cycling, all trustees must have the essential skills, knowledge, and experience required of an effective charity trustee and be able to offer the specialist skills we need.

In return for your passion, commitment, and skills, we can offer you the chance to make a significant difference to cycling in the UK.  We want to hear from you if you think you have what it takes to put our values into action.

If you are interested in becoming a trustee, please send us your current CV and a short (maximum two pages) covering letter setting out how you meet the key points set out in the person specification. Please email to recruitment@cyclinguk.org on or before 9am on Friday 16 July 2021 including: a current CV, covering letter and title of the trustee role ‘co-opted trustee’

We are also offering an opportunity for prospective applicants to join existing trustees at a virtual ‘drop in’ session on Thursday 17 June 2021, 6pm – 7:30pm. This will be an opportunity to meet some of the existing board and find out more about the role on an informal basis. If you would like to join this session, please contact Katherine Fairfax on katherine.fairfax@cyclinguk.org for joining instructions.

There is also further information about our current trustees, the role of trustees and how to become an elected trustee. 

Closing date: 9am Friday 16 July 2021