Sport 4 Life UK
Senior Marketing Coordinator
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Senior Marketing Coordinator – Maternity Cover
Salary: £32,000–£35,000 per annum
Contract: 12-month fixed-term maternity cover
Hours: Full-time
Location: Birmingham / hybrid working
Start date: November 2026
Help us tell the stories that change young lives.
Sport 4 Life UK is a leading youth employment charity, supporting young people to develop the skills, confidence and qualifications they need to find work and shape successful futures. Having recently celebrated our 20th anniversary, we're looking for an experienced and proactive Senior Marketing Coordinator to join us on a 12-month maternity cover contract.
This is a broad, hands-on role with real ownership. You'll coordinate marketing activity across the organisation, manage our digital channels and campaigns, bring our impact to life through compelling content and help strengthen the Sport 4 Life UK brand. You'll also play an important role in supporting our wider ambitions – from engaging more young people and growing our profile to supporting partnerships and income generation. These responsibilities reflect the breadth of the revised role across campaigns, digital content, performance and insight, income generation and organisation-wide marketing support.
What you'll be doing
You'll be responsible for:
- Planning, coordinating and delivering integrated marketing campaigns across digital, print and communications.
- Managing our marketing and communications calendar, ensuring activity is effectively planned across the organisation.
- Leading our social media activity and creating engaging content, including copy, photography, video and case studies.
- Managing email marketing, website content and other digital communications.
- Acting as a key point of contact for marketing, advising colleagues on campaigns, communications and use of our brand.
- Coordinating marketing requests from different teams and managing competing priorities and deadlines.
- Using analytics and performance data to evaluate activity, produce reports and recommend improvements.
- Supporting fundraising, business development and partnerships through effective marketing and communications.
- Ensuring content involving young people is managed appropriately, including photography, video and case study consent.
- Leading our relationship with our external marketing agency, including setting priorities, developing briefs and overseeing delivery.
- Identifying opportunities to strengthen our brand, grow our audiences and continuously improve our marketing.
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About you
We're looking for someone who can combine creative thinking with hands-on delivery.
You'll ideally have:
- Experience in a broad marketing or communications role, including planning and delivering campaigns across multiple channels.
- Strong copywriting and storytelling skills.
- Experience managing social media, email marketing and website content.
- The ability to create engaging content for different audiences and channels.
- Experience using data and insight to understand performance and improve marketing activity.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- The confidence to advise colleagues and positively challenge ideas when needed.
- A proactive approach and the ability to take ownership and make things happen.
- A commitment to Sport 4 Life UK's values and improving opportunities for young people.
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You don't need to have worked in the charity sector. We're interested in the experience and ideas you can bring, how you approach your work and your connection with our purpose.
Why join Sport 4 Life UK?
We're a relatively small organisation with big ambitions, so you won't be confined to one narrow area of marketing.
You'll have the opportunity to work across the organisation, bring forward your own ideas and have genuine ownership of our marketing activity during the 12-month contract. Most importantly, your work will contribute to our mission: empowering young people to reach their potential by providing the skills, qualifications and support needed to find work and shape successful futures.
If you're looking for a varied marketing role where your work can make a genuine difference, we'd love to hear from you. To apply visit: https://sport4life.org.uk/vacancies/senior-marketing-coordinator-vacancy/
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