Marketing Executive
Use your marketing skills to support mission-driven organisations enhance and showcase their impact, while helping strengthen our core brand.
As Marketing Executive, you will help tell the stories of Purposeful Ventures’ incubations and partner organisations, as well as our own. Working closely with the Senior Communications Manager, the Philanthropy and Communications team, and colleagues across some of our incubations and partner organisations, you will develop clear, audience-focused marketing that helps mission-driven organisations connect with the people who matter most and strengthens the Purposeful Ventures brand.
A distinctive part of this exciting new role is the opportunity to support our incubations as they are being set up. From helping develop visual identity assets to supporting with social media content, you will help our incubations put the foundations of its brand and marketing in place – working with their founders and teams to do so. If you enjoy variety, collaboration and turning ideas into compelling stories, you'll thrive in this role.
We welcome a keenness to work with start-up teams and with a non-profit focused on improving young people’s lives from their earliest years.
Please download the full job description on the Purposeful Ventures website
Job Description
This role sits within Purposeful Ventures’ core team, and provides marketing and brand support to both our core team and wider incubations.
Responsibilities and duties
Digital marketing and owned channels
Manage routine updates to Purposeful’s current website, ensuring content is accurate, up to date and aligned with our tone of voice
Support the Senior Communications Manager with the development of Purposeful’s new website including gathering content from internal teams, creating or adapting visual assets, CMS content
Work alongside the Senior Communications Manager to create and design engaging LinkedIn content that reflects Purposeful’s brand and engages our priority audiences, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders if required
Support the Senior Communications Manager with populating Purposeful’s LinkedIn content calendar, including updating our annual activity calendar
Prepare regular engagement analysis, using LinkedIn Analytics and other relevant analytics tools, across Purposeful’s owned channels supporting the Senior Communications Manager to identify trends and opportunities to improve content performance
Content and brand assets
Design and adapt defined collateral for presentations and external communications, including case studies, testimonials, annual reports, impact reports and templates, ensuring materials are clear, accurate, up to date and aligned with Purposeful’s tone
Create and adapt defined compelling visual content to illustrate Purposeful’s work and impact to internal and external audiences (such as video, photography, graphics, data illustration)
Bespoke marketing support for incubations and partner organisations
Work with the Senior Communications Manager and wider team to produce defined marketing materials for new incubations, based on each incubation’s set-up strategy. Typical outputs may include launching social media profiles, creating visual identity assets, brand guidelines, microsite or website design/build, supporting creating key messaging documents, creating tone of voice/glossary guidance, designing marketing assets, drafting social media content plans and marketing plans
Work with the Comms team and our Ventures colleagues to deliver or support defined marketing projects for our existing incubations and parter organisations, building on the types of outputs above
Who we are looking for
Key requirements
Passionate about creating a fairer society where all young people thrive
Demonstrable track record of taking ownership of commitments and working hard to succeed.
A strong design eye and experience using design tools (e.g. Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud or similar software) to create clear marketing assets
Working knowledge of a range of website skills, platforms (e.g. Wix, Squarespace), content management systems, basic web design principles, user experience and user journeys
Experience working from defined marketing briefs, understanding scope of work requirements: executing a brief, delivering agreed outputs for a specific audience at pace, on time and within a limited budget
Knowledge of relevant social media tactics and experience supporting the set-up of social media profiles, or creating and managing content across social media platforms with an understanding of audience and channel specific nuances – particularly on LinkedIn
Experience using analytics tools, such as Google Analytics and LinkedIn Analytics, to monitor engagement, evaluate performance and identify opportunities for improvement across website and social media channels.
Ability to liaise with stakeholders beyond your immediate team, which may include experience with clients, social entrepreneurs, start-up leaders, customers or external stakeholders including working to a brief, managing feedback and delivering agreed outputs
Right to work in the UK
Desirable
Experience supporting internal communications across one or more channels, formats or outputs
Experience supporting B2B or B2C event planning (such as conferences, exhibitions, public or internal events, speaker presentations, receptions, webinars or fundraising events)
Experience working with freelancers or marketing agencies, including supporting drafting briefs, commissioning processes, project check-ins, recording minutes/actions
Awareness of how AI tools can support content creation, design and editing, with judgement about when human review, accuracy checks and brand oversight are needed
Charity or start-up experience is not essential. We are looking for someone who brings initiative, curiosity and transferable marketing skills, and can produce relevant, meaningful assets and outputs that add value to a project.
- Department
- Purposeful Ventures
- Yearly salary
- £30,000 - £35,000
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Reports to
- Senior Communications Manager
- Closing date
- Friday 11th September 2026 at 09.00
- Interviews
- Round 1 interviews will take place on Thursday 17th September 2026 and Friday 18th September 2026 on MS Teams. Round 2 interviews will take place on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th September 2026 at our EdCity offices.
- Hours
- Full-time (37.5 hours per week). Part-time hours will be considered (at least 0.8 FTE per week)
- Employment Type
- 12-month Fixed Term Contract
- Location
- London W12. Our core days when all staff are in our office are Tuesday and Wednesday. Staff have flexibility to work from home on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays when not at in-person meetings at EdCity or with partners.
About Purposeful Ventures
Purposeful Ventures partners with social entrepreneurs and philanthropists to improve the education and well-being of young people from their earliest years. We do this by selecting, accelerating and, where we find a gap, incubating organisations which tackle particular issues. Together, we test and scale effective solutions and influence system change.