Closing date: 9am on Monday 26 September 2022
SALARY RANGE: £30,000-£40,000, a year full-time equivalent. Starting salary dependent on skills and experience.
LOCATION: Contractually based at our office, Eden Rural Foyer, Old London Road, Penrith, CA118 ET. However, homeworking can be agreed.
HOURS: 30 hrs– 37.5 hrs a week, with flexibility to be worked across 4 or 5 days, and option for compressed hours.
DURATION: Start as soon as possible. Fixed-term contract to 31 March 2024 (with potential extension subject to funding).
Are you an experienced marketing & communications professional wanting to use your skills to help tackle climate change? Join Cumbria Action for Sustainability as our new marketing manager and you’ll play a crucial role in helping Cumbria reach its goal of net zero carbon emissions.
You’ll lead communications for CAfS and for the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership of more than 80 organisations working towards the county’s net zero goal. Managing our communications team of three employees, you’ll develop creative marketing strategies to support our projects and our organisation, and oversee their successful implementation.
Working for CAfS
As an employee of Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS), you’ll be working for an organisation that is flexible, supportive and values your wellbeing. We can offer you a healthy work/life balance, including some flexibility in when and where you work your hours, along with an employer pension contribution of 6% from day one of employment and holiday entitlement of 22 days pro rata plus bank and public holidays.
CAfS is Cumbria’s climate change organisation. Our vision is a zero carbon Cumbria which is socially, environmentally, and economically beneficial for all. We aim to achieve this by promoting and facilitating low carbon living and its benefits – inspiring and supporting individuals, communities, and organisations across Cumbria and beyond to decarbonise lives and businesses by 2037 or sooner.
We manage and deliver events, advice, training and practical projects across the county as well as providing specialist consultancy services to enable individuals, communities, businesses and local authorities to drive a shift towards a Zero Carbon Cumbria.
We hope you will consider joining us and being part of Cumbria-wide efforts to tackle climate change while making lives better.
If you have any questions about the job or the application process, please do get in touch for an informal chat with us: [email protected].
Job description & person specification
Download the job description and person specification to see full details about the role and the skills and experience you’d ideally have:
How to apply
To apply, please download and fill in the covering form below, and submit it along with your CV to: [email protected].
Marketing Manager – Cover Form
Closing date for return of applications is 9am on 26 September 2022
Interviews will be held via Zoom on Monday 3 October 2022. Please let us know when submitting your application if you are unable to make that date.
Some great benefits of working at CAfS
Deciding whether to apply? Working at CAfS comes with some great benefits. You’ll be joining a friendly and supportive organisation, and your wellbeing and work/life balance are hugely important to us. As well as flexibility around your working hours and location, as mentioned above, you’ll have 22 days of paid annual leave pro rata, plus bank/public holidays. We pay an employer pension contribution of 6% from day one of employment.