Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: 12 month fixed term contract
Location: Gloucester
Job Ref: 205140
About the role
Benefact Trust is looking for a Senior Content Marketing Specialist to join our Gloucester team on a hybrid basis, covering 12 months' maternity leave.
This is a hands-on writing role at the heart of how we tell the Benefact Trust story. You'll lead our thought leadership and campaign content, plan and manage our content film days, write and drive our reactive media commentary, and run our marketing campaign plan, helping build the Trust's profile across the church and charity sectors.
Why join us?
Join a team where your expertise makes a real difference to lives and communities. Since 1972, Benefact Trust has awarded over £310 million to support churches, charities and communities across the UK and Ireland.
Benefact Trust is the charitable owner of Benefact Group which itself thrives on a collaborative and inclusive culture and is ranked amongst the Ranked amongst the UK's 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025.
What you'll be doing
Develop and deliver Benefact Trust’s content and campaign plans to grow awareness, engagement and impact.
Write high-quality thought leadership content, articles, media commentary, press releases and campaign materials.
Plan, manage and deliver content filming days, including scriptwriting and coordinating content production.
Identify and drive reactive media opportunities that raise the Trust’s profile and demonstrate our expertise and impact.
Manage, create and deliver integrated marketing campaigns across digital, social, email, website and media channels.
You will also:
What you'll need to have
Excellent writing, editing and storytelling skills, with experience creating content for multiple channels.
Experience developing thought leadership content and turning complex topics into engaging, audience-focused communications.
Experience planning and delivering content campaigns from concept through to execution.
Experience writing press releases, media commentary and reactive communications.
Experience planning and managing video or content production projects, including scriptwriting.
Strong project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
A genuine interest in organisations that improve lives and communities.
What makes you stand out
Experience using marketing analytics and reporting tools.
Experience using search engine optimisation (SEO) to help content reach a wider audience.
Experience managing brand and reputation across marketing channels.
Experience building and managing relationships with colleagues, partner organisations or beneficiaries.
Experience or knowledge of the charity, heritage or not-for-profit sector.
What we offer
A competitive salary - let's discuss it
Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
Generous annual bonus scheme: on-target bonus between 6% and 24%
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
£200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
Employee Assistance Programme
Full study support to gain professional qualifications
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Hear from the hiring manager
"We're a small team, but we're hands-on, full of energy and never short on ideas. What makes this job so inspiring is getting to work alongside organisations doing such incredible, life-changing work - you'll feel that from the moment you join us."
About us
Benefact Trust was built on a simple, but ambitious idea - to be one of the UK's most impactful Christian grant-making charities.
This idea is at the heart of everything we do, it has defined our ownership of Benefact Group - which is made up of specialist financial companies whose available profits go towards funding our charitable giving.
We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.
At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.
If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.
