Communications Assistant

Do you have a passion for communications? How about an exciting role promoting our employer brand? You’ll get to create engaging content to support brand awareness. Join a great team at Aspire Defence Services… As the Communications Assistant, you will use your content creation and copywriting skills to maintain our social media channels, internal and external communications.  You’ll understand what it takes to design engaging graphic and video content and be able to maintain content calendars to ensure that there is a steady flow of updates promoting the employer brand. You’ll also have experience in building a following on social media, because you’ll be responsible for moderating social media communities, and ensuring engagement is carried out in line with stipulated community guidelines. You’ll support the management of the end-to-end delivery of each internal campaigns and work with the Client for external campaigns, from ideation through to publication, which means you’ll need to be creative, intuitive, innovative, but most importantly adaptive. You should be able, and willing to train and develop new skills to meet changing needs. But most importantly, as this role is FTC for 12 months covering Maternity Leave, you will be ensuring everything is moving as it should be and maintaining the high standard of work already set out.  But first, meet the team… With a 35-year contract, making soldiers’ lives better is at the heart of everything we do at Aspire Defence Services. We deliver a broad range of services for one-third of the British Army living and working on our patch, and we're proud of the work we do. That’s our mission; to deliver a modern, fully serviced, flexible working environment for soldiers. We’re all about nurturing great teams, and our award-winning safety and wellbeing initiatives are built on keeping an eye out for one another and having a good work-life balance. In addition to being part of our team, you’ll also get… 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, as well as the option to buy and sell holiday Contributory Company Pension Plan matched up to 6%, plus individual life assurance A shopping discounts scheme Birthday Day Off Scheme Cycle to Work and Tech Scheme Discounted gym membership at Aldershot and Tidworth Leisure Centre Employee assistance and health and wellbeing check-ins Reward and recognition to celebrate outstanding achievements Free on-site parking Ready to join the team? Minimum of 5 GCSEs including English and Maths and A level or above in English. Excellent written and verbal communication skills Able to use basic design and editing software such as Adobe Creative Suite and Canva Understand Google Analytics and how to monitor key KPIs and metrics targeted at improving the performance of social media campaigns. Salary: Up to £36,500  Location: Tidworth  12 month FTC Please note: We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate against protected characteristics. We guarantee that candidates will be given the same consideration and will pass through our established procedures. Please note, this vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of applications.  ADSL has a legal responsibility to ensure that all its employees have the right to live and work in the UK. If you are invited to an interview, you will be asked to bring with you original copies of documentation that provides evidence of your right to live and work in the UK. Applicants needing skilled worker sponsorship may not be suitable for this post due to the immediacy of the appointment. If you are made an offer of employment, this will be subject to ADSL verifying that you are eligible to work in the UK before you start work.