Are you an experienced digital marketer looking for your next challenge? Do you thrive in creative environments and enjoy shaping how organisations show up online? If you're ready to bring your skills to a role where your ideas genuinely make an impact, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re excited to be recruiting a Digital Marketing Officer on a 12-month fixed term basis to help drive forward the Society’s digital presence and support our growing Marketing & Communications team.
What You’ll Be Doing
In this role, you’ll take the lead on the day‑to‑day management, optimisation and development of the Society’s digital channels. Your work will include:
- Managing and maintaining our WordPress website, ensuring content is accurate, up to date, user-focused, and aligned to brand guidelines
- Working with our web agency to enhance the customer journey and implement ongoing website improvements
- Creating and delivering engaging digital content across social media, website and email campaigns
- Planning and maintaining a social media content calendar across platforms including LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram
- Producing a range of content including blogs, web pages, graphics and video, optimised for SEO and audience engagement
- Supporting the planning, execution and optimisation of multi-channel marketing campaigns, including SEO, paid media and email marketing
- Monitoring campaign and website performance using analytics tools and using insight to continuously improve results and user experience
You’ll play a key role in strengthening how we connect with our members and ensuring our digital presence continues to evolve in a fast-moving landscape.
- At least 2 years’ on-the-job experience in a digital marketing role (in-house or agency-side)
- Proven experience managing websites (ideally WordPress) and working with web developers to deliver improvements
- Hands-on experience managing social media platforms and email marketing campaigns
- Experience using analytical and insight tools such as Google Analytics, Hotjar, Meta Business Suite, Hootsuite (or similar)
- Strong understanding of SEO, SEM and PPC and how to apply these to improve performance
- Experience creating digital content including written, visual and video assets
- Experience using content creation tools such as Canva, Adobe Creative Suite or similar
- Ability to analyse performance data, measure campaign success and translate insights into actionable improvements
- Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A proactive, creative and self-motivated approach
- Ability to work well under pressure, meet deadlines and collaborate effectively with internal teams and external partners
- Leading the annual website content review and carrying out regular checks to ensure content remains accurate and effective
- Supporting product launches and wider marketing campaigns by creating and delivering digital assets
- Engaging with our online community, responding to comments and messages and building brand advocacy
- Ensuring all digital activity and communications remain compliant with regulatory requirements, brand guidelines and internal policies
- Working closely with internal stakeholders and external partners to deliver consistent, high-quality campaigns
- Contributing to the wider marketing plan and digital strategy, bringing forward new ideas and opportunities to improve performance
Why Work For Us?
Darlington Building Society has a Passion For Talent, allowing you to shape your career within the Society. We offer learning and development programmes to give you everything you need to succeed. We want you to flourish within the organisation, gaining skills and experiences to set you up for the next step in your career at DBS. As an active colleague, you will retain all the current benefits offered as part of your total reward package while learning about a new department. This will give you a deeper understanding of Darlington Building Society’s internal processes, allowing you to put your knowledge to great use, adding more value to the role as you develop.
Benefits Package
- 10% of salary Matched Pension Contributions
- 4X life assurance
- Healthcare Plan
- Agile working
- Discounts platform
to name a few - for full details please see our website
Job Information
- Location: Head Office, Agile
- Job Type: FTC- 12 months
- Salary: £31,270.73
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Job Types: Full-time, Temporary
Pay: Up to £31,270.73 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Darlington DL1 4PT
