Marketing Projects Manager (CTEC)

About the role

We are currently seeking a Marketing Projects Manager (CTEC) to join our Marketing & Digital department at The Bedford College Group. As a Marketing Projects Manager, you play an important role in the success of our students through:

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end planning, coordination, governance, and delivery of CTEC marketing projects, ensuring activities are completed on time, within budget, to agreed quality standards, and supported by effective risk management, reporting, and evaluation.

• Act as the primary marketing lead for internal and external CTEC stakeholders, building strong relationships, translating business needs into actionable marketing briefs, chairing marketing working groups, and providing a professional consultancy-style service.

• Plan, coordinate, and optimise integrated marketing campaigns across digital and offline channels, including websites, email marketing, social media, paid advertising, print materials, PR activity, and stakeholder communications.

• Manage CTEC website content and LinkedIn activity, creating engaging and conversion-focused content, delivering organic and paid campaigns, maintaining case studies and success stories, and ensuring all communications align with brand guidelines and objectives.

• Lead the delivery of national and regional CTEC events, monitor campaign effectiveness through data and ROI analysis, manage suppliers and agencies, provide performance reporting and insights, and drive continuous improvement while upholding safeguarding, EDI, health & safety, and organisational standards.

Requirements

• Qualifications & Professional Development: Degree in Marketing, Business, or a related discipline (or equivalent professional marketing qualification), supported by evidence of continuing professional development and a commitment to staying current with marketing best practice.

• Marketing Campaigns, Content & Digital Expertise: Proven experience delivering successful multi-channel marketing campaigns with measurable outcomes, including website content management, LinkedIn marketing (organic and paid), social media content creation, email marketing, CRM-supported campaigns, and digital performance optimisation.

• Project Management, Events & Stakeholder Engagement: Strong experience managing complex marketing projects, budgets, regional or multi-site campaigns, and stakeholder events, with the ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with internal and external partners to achieve strategic objectives.

• Analytical, Technical & Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong copywriting capability, proficiency with CMS platforms and marketing technologies, advanced IT skills, and the ability to analyse campaign data, evaluate performance, and produce actionable insights and reports.

• Organisation, Professionalism & Personal Effectiveness: Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail, strong judgement, initiative, and problem-solving skills, able to prioritise workloads, work to deadlines, and maintain high professional standards while representing the organisation positively.

• Values, Flexibility & Continuous Improvement: Demonstrates commitment to Bedford College Group values of Student Focus, High Performance, Respect, Openness and Honesty, with flexibility to travel across campuses, work occasional evenings and weekends, and continuously develop knowledge and skills.

Qualifications

Qualifications and professional development as outlined above.

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong copywriting capability.

• Proficiency with CMS platforms and marketing technologies.

• Advanced IT skills.

• The ability to analyse campaign data, evaluate performance, and produce actionable insights and reports.

• Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail.

• Strong judgement, initiative, and problem-solving skills.

• Able to prioritise workloads, work to deadlines, and maintain high professional standards.

• Flexibility to travel across campuses, work occasional evenings and weekends.

• Continuous development of knowledge and skills.

Benefits

• Salary is between £41,086 and £47,971 per annum.

• 27 days annual leave plus Bank holidays.

• People’s pension.

• Retail and Leisure Discounts.

• Excellent professional and personal development opportunities.

• Accessing college courses.

Pay

Salary is between £41,086 and £47,971 per annum.

Schedule

37 hours per week – 52 weeks per year.