Community Rail Marketing and Communications Job Opportunity – Deadline Extended to 11 July

The Derwent Valley Line CRP and the High Peak and Hope Valley CRP seek freelance marketing and communication services to deliver key elements of their activity plans for 2024/25.

 Part -time: 2 days per week (1.5 days for High Peak and Hope Valley (HPHVCRP) and 0.5 days for Derwent Valley Line (DVLCRP)). The fixed-term contract will cover 48 weeks’ paid work over 12 months.

Fee: The fee for this work is up to £14,400. Additional travel costs will be paid to up to £500.

Purpose and Objectives

Key priorities include the delivery of key elements of HPHVCRP and DVLCRP communications, campaigns and marketing portfolio – with a particular focus on both CRPs’ websites and social media channels.

The aim of the Community Rail Partnerships is to engage communities with their local stations and rail travel, promote social inclusion and increase rail travel confidence, work with train operators to bring about improvements, promote sustainable travel and bring stations to life, making journeys by rail more attractive.

The ideal candidate will:

• have effective writing skills to influence and appeal to a diverse audience;
• have previous experience of working in a similar role;
• know about marketing and communications techniques, particularly digital and social media
• have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail;
• have the ability to deliver high levels of customer care;
• be highly efficient with strong organisational, communication, interpersonal and IT

See Links below to Job Advert, Marketing Brief and How to Apply.

All submissions will be through this ProContract link

The closing date for this role has been extended until 11th July at 11am.

Interviews are scheduled for Tuesday 23rd July at County Hall, Matlock.