Marketing & Design Assistant

Aim:
Research Instruments Ltd (RI) is seeking a Marketing & Design Assistant to join their marketing team to support the development and execution of key design and marketing activities. The graduate will produce catalogues and marketing materials using Adobe Creative Suite programmes. The successful graduate will be involved in all of the company's design requirements including promotional materials, packaging, manuals, e-newsletters, internal communications and also printing.

The company:
RI (www.research-instruments.com) has been in business for over 50 years, specialising in technology and medical devices for the fertility field. It has quickly become the company of choice when looking for the latest in biomedical technology. A global leader in micromanipulation technology, the company has its head office in Falmouth, Cornwall. The company is now the largest IVF hardware supplier in the world with a global network of distributors in over 100 countries and a comprehensive product portfolio. The Marketing & Design Assistant role presents an exceptional opportunity for a graduate looking to develop design and marketing experience within a dynamic and growing company.

Objectives:

• To design all marketing communications and product literature and co-ordinate the production and distribution with external agencies such as printers and design studios to meet deadlines
• To create iconography and materials to support new product launches
• Collate marketing matrics to support and inform the Marketing Departments activities
• Maintain the current B2B social media marketing plan
• To co-ordinate the execution of tactical marketing programs, product updates, sales promotions to key customers and distribution channels
• To co-ordinate and deliver an internal communications plan
• To maintain a central marketing communications system as a resource for product literature, general marketing materials including presentations, branding guidelines and imagery available and communicate to all internal departments and distributors

• To learn from and support the other members of the marketing team in areas such as web maintenance, email marketing, search engine optimisation, event coordination and public relations

Nature of work undertaken: The successful graduate will initially familiarise themselves with the business and the product range offered. You will report to the Marketing Manager, Lis Goulder, and support her with all marketing, advertising and promotional activity. With Lis' guidance, you will support all departments and maintain professional internal and external relationships that meet company core values. The right person will grow their career within this exciting and innovative business and will need to employ their drive, creativity, ambition and ideas.

Required Personal skills and qualifications:
Essential Requirements:

• Degree level qualification in Design, Marketing or similar
• An excellent working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (PhotoShop, Illustrator and InDesign)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Positive, pro-active, self-motivated approach
• Good IT skills, Microsoft Office, including advanced Word and PowerPoint and Excel essential
• Full clean driving licence

Desirable Requirements:

• Recent experience in a marketing role/department
• Experience of social networking, SEO and Google Analytics/ad-words
• Excellent eye for detail
• Webinar experience

Duration: Temporary, maternity cover

Salary: £17500 to £20000 per annum

For further information and to apply:
Send a CV and covering letter outlining why you feel you are suitable for the role to Lis Goulder, lis@reserach-instruments.com or call 01736 798164 for more information

Closing date for applications:
15 February 2013 - interviews to be held week commencing 18 February 2013

Event Production/Marketing Co-ordinator postgraduate placement

For eligible Masters Students through the PPC Scheme

Sunbeam Jackie, www.sunbeamjackie.com,  design and manufacture luxury handmade parasols using antique and vintage fabrics. We also have a rental fleet which we hire out for special events, weddings and festivals.

Placement details:

We are looking for someone to take the initiative in organising a string of marketing stunts to advertise our parasols.
We are currently in the concept phase of developing these marketing stunts. We would work closely with you in all aspects of the project, your role would be pivotal in co-ordinating the overall event.
Working example of possible publicity stunt: Impromptu parasol parades with costumed representatives forming a travelling troupe proceeding through London's shopping centres, Henley regatta etc.
The happenings need to be focused around our target market of well heeled individuals.
This will require the candidate to demonstrate creative maneouverability coupled with excellent organisational and communication skills.

Desired outcomes:
Work on publicity.
Raise the public awareness of our brand and product in the right areas of the market to increase sales
Develop our social media presence and network
Develop a good and successful working relationship with you which could lead on to a more fixed position within our company

Person specification:
Creatively minded
Good communication skills
Marketing/advertising experience
Good working knowledge of social networking sites
Photography/film making skills useful
Graphics/web experience useful
Interest in production and textile design useful
Interest in gaining experience in all aspects of the running of a small business
This position is open to eligible candiates who are enthused by the thought of working with us on this project and feels that they can demonstrate the relevant attributes and necessary initiative, ability and pro-activity to get this project into the public arena in a professionally realisd, publicised and documented fashion.

Degree requirements: Must be on a Postgraduate Degree in Cornwall.

For the PPC scheme there are certain eligibility requirements - please see: air.falmouth.ac.uk/ppc for more information. 

Location: Flexible. Working both from our base, from your home, plus trips with us to execute marketing stunts. Costs for these trips covered by us.

Full/Part time: Part time, temporary (222 Hours Total)

Rate of pay: Total of £225.00 per week with employer and ESF contributions. Payment terms can be discussed with the Placement Team - placementteam@falmouth.ac.uk

Start date: 1st March 2013

How to apply: Please send a covering letter and CV to placementteam@falmouth.ac.uk no later than 17:00 on Monday 4th February 2013 or

Bring your covering letter and CV along for an informal talk with Sunbeam Jackie on Wednesday 6th Feb in TH Seminar W at 2.30pm.

Remember you can get your CV and Covering letters checked by booking an appointment in the Career Zone. 

Additional information: We are currently based in Constantine village on the Helford river and from April will be based between Helston and Penzance.
Having your own transport is not a pre-requisite for this post but it will be taken into consideration. If you don't have your own transport but can arrange lifts as and when you need to be at our office do please consider this and let us know at time of interview.

MARKETING ADMINISTRATOR

What We Do
Experience animal welfare in action at Europe's busiest Seal Rescue centre. Encounter fascinating seals, playful otters and comical penguins in our fantastic underwater viewing areas. Visit a working seal hospital and meet our resident sealions. Daily interactive talks and feeding demonstrations make this a day out for the whole family.

About the role
This is a new role , part time and with flexible working days for a maximum of 24 hours a week, reporting to the General Manager. You will provide marketing administrative support focusing on growing our online and digital presence. The role will give you a real insight into the marketing of a busy visitor attraction and exposure to the wider Merlin Entertainments Group. This is a perfect role for somebody who wants to gain marketing experience in one of Cornwall's larger visitor attractions.
There is public transport available if you don't have your own transport.

About you
You'll be a passionate, creative individual with an eye for detail who has a real interest in marketing. Strong IT skills and a real understanding of social media (Twitter, Facebook) are essential. Hours can be flexible to fit around study commitments. 

About the benefits
As well as a competitive hourly rate of £6.40 per hour, you can look forward to a great benefits package which includes a Merlin Magic Pass which gives you free admission to all of our attractions worldwide. Perhaps the biggest benefit of joining us, however, are the outstanding opportunities for career development.

About Merlin Entertainments
Merlin Entertainments is the leading name in location based, quality family entertainment and the world's number two visitor attraction operator. We currently have over 90 attractions spread across 20 countries and four continents, and aim to deliver unique and memorable experiences to over 40 million visitors worldwide. Here is the UK alone, we have a vast portfolio of reputable brands from Legoland and Chessington to Madame Tussauds and EDF London Eye.

To apply for this position please send a full covering letter and current CV to trevor.broome@merlinentertainments.biz

Closing date for applications: 11 February 2013

Illustrator

A job opportunity has arisen for an illustrator to provide drawings for Colin Leamon’s book of  'Jackanories' 'Bed Time Stories'. The book will be published when the illustrations are complete and the illustrator will be offered 30% of all Black and White sales or 35% for colour.  If you are interested in this position please contact Mr Colin Leamon  at colinleamon@btinternet.com by no later than 31 January 2013.

This is a 222 hour PPC placement for MA Creative Advertising students only. Terms and conditions apply, please see: http://air.falmouth.ac.uk/ppc

Location: Falmouth

Temporary placement for 222 hours part time

Salary: PPC funding £1350

Cream Cornwall are offering a great placement opportunity. Cream Cornwall draws on Cornwall's physical and emotional elements and translates them into products. Every product has a sense of place and its own identity because it is made in the county by crafts people who are passionate about what they make and where they live. We are working with artisans and local crafts people to create beautiful products that are beautifully made. Every product has been designed with the colour, texture and imagery of Cornwall as our inspiration.

Cream Cornwall are looking for a Copywriter to create a clear and precise tone of voice that embodies all of the above attributes and clearly resonates with our target market. We need to explore our target market. Write emotive copy for all of the products and devise a marketing and press campaign which will tantalize, intrigue and drive customers to the website.

Person Specification:

• Be enrolled on MA Creative Advertising at UCF
• Meet PPC eligibility criteria

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and covering letter/email and examples of your work or a link to your online portfolio to the Placement Team: placementteam@falmouth.ac.uk The deadline for applications is midday Monday 17^th December

For further information and full placement description, please contact placementteam@falmouth.ac.uk

DESIGN ASSISTANT / ARTWORKER

Flash Designer

Permanent
London
£18-20k
Ideal start: January 2013

A top 3 Ad Agency and twice Digital Agency of the Year are recruiting for a junior Flash Designer to join their team in London.
The ATL and Digital companies merged last year and are stronger than ever! Clients include BBC, Lloyds, Oxfam.

They are ideally seeking a 2011 graduate who is looking for their first permanent role in an agency.  Their output of work involves online advertising, animation, design and interactive design. They need someone who has a very good grasp of animation in Flash and After Effects already but it looking to build on their skills and work in an established agency being mentored by some of the best Digital Designers and Art Directors in the industry.
They are looking for someone exceptional. Someone who’s got an excellent folio and is willing to go above and beyond to progress their career in online advertising.

This is not a role for someone who doesn’t want to give it their all to succeed and progress. Enthusiasm, ability and proficiency (as much as possible at grad level) in the following are required:

Flash
Action Script
After Effects
HTML coding ( knowledge not hand code)
Photoshop
Illustrator

If this sounds like you and you have a clean, beautiful portfolio, please to send to Kristie@wearesource.co.uk to review.

Digital Animator and Content Facilitator, Headcast Lab

£23,000 per annum  

Falmouth, Cornwall

Headcast Ltd are looking to employ a Digital Animator and Content Facilitator, to digitally animate HeadcastLab animated characters, and their integration in all media as required

Design Director, Headcast Lab

£45,000 per annum (0.5 part-time, pro rata initially)  

Falmouth, Cornwall

 Headcast Ltd are looking to employ a Design Director to direct and implement the branding, graphic design, web design and related items for the company, and lead the visualization of the customer experience (except animation).

Sales co-ordinator, Headcast Lab

£20,000 - £22,000  

Falmouth, Cornwall

Headcast Ltd are looking to employ a Studio Coordinator to manage the design team and the office and develop sales leads.

For more info on all these vacancies click here

Creative Developer

Based at: Jarrang HQ, Falmouth Business Park
Reports to: Email Marketing Manager
Responsible for: Delivery of html design
Grade/salary scale: £19-21,000 per annum

Main duties and responsibilities:
• Work with clients and internal staff to design creative, eye-catching and innovative email campaigns to meet client needs whilst remaining on-brand
• Deliver client work including the design and coding of html emails
• On-going population and testing of email campaigns to ensure optimum performance
• Delivering original art-work and designs for email templates, landing pages and supporting material
• Developing high quality email marketing campaigns
• Provide regular information reports through appropriate management information systems
• To be responsible for your own continuing self-development, undertaking training as appropriate

Person Specification:
Essential:
• Extensive, highly competent design and development portfolio of a similar nature to this role
• Knowledge and experience of html coding
• Competent and good working knowledge of design programs including Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Indesign
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent organisational, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent IT skills
• An ability to work as a fully contributing member of a team, whilst at the same time being self-motivating and self-reliant
• Strong time/workload management and ability to work to tight deadlines
• Flexible and adaptable attitude to work
• Cheerful and positive outlook
• Professional approach and attention to detail
• Experience of working in an office environment
• Understanding of email marketing

Desirable:
• An interest in marketing and promotion
• Working knowledge of email marketing platforms
• Knowledge and experience of PHP and Java script
• Interest in self and personal development
• Education to A ‘Level or above

Special Conditions:
The postholder will be based at Falmouth Business Park but may be required to travel, therefore access
to travel is essential.

Terms and conditions of service:
Jarrang is an equal opportunities employer.

Footnotes:
1. All Jarrang employees are expected to work within a secure and legal environment at all times. Consequently, they will work within the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and all subsequent and relevant H & S legislation and statutory instruments, and comply with any requirements specified in relation to their employment in this respect.

2. Equal Opportunities. Jarrang Limited believes in and actively promotes Equal Opportunities in all aspects of its employment procedures.

Closing date: 14/12/2012

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