Mercat Tours Marketing Exec

We’re inviting people who have a passion for history, a flair for presentation, and take pleasure in helping visitors enjoyour beautiful city to join us!<br>Choose Mercat for a reason, not just a season!<br>Your Skills and Strengths<br>Demonstrable experience of social content creation in terms of copy, graphics and video across a range of social media platforms within a professional background.<br>Experience with the following software and platforms or similar is essential; Hootsuite, Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom and DaVinci Resolve.<br>Experience using an e‑mail marketing platform such as MailChimp is desired.<br>Detailed, passionate, and creatively ambitious.<br>Professional standards of written, image, and video‑led communications.<br>A love for social media, trends, hashtags, innovations, and social best practices.<br>Excellent organisational skills for time management and forward planning.<br>Team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills.<br>Experience of working within tourism would be beneficial.<br>Friendly, energetic and helpful. Someone who thrives working in a team.<br>Passion for high quality product and visitor experience.<br>Commitment to be the best you can be.<br>Sense of humor!<br>Details<br>Permanent role<br>Part‑time, 21 hours<br>Flexible working requests available from day 1 (e.g. condensed hours)<br>Hybrid working with work‑from‑home options<br>All IT equipment provided<br>Monday–Friday working week<br>3‑month probationary period<br>We are a Living Wage and Living Hours employer<br>We’re not about seasonal jobs, but lasting careers because Mercat is here for good.<br>When you join us, you’re stepping into a permanent, secure job with top‑notch training, career development and leadership that plans for the long‑term good of our people, place and planet.<br>As a local family business and proud B Corp, we nurture our community to create a sense of belonging for our visitors and team alike.<br>That means we grow and thrive together, for good.<br>#J-18808-Ljbffr Salary: GBP 20000 - 25000 per year

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