Job Description

Communications and Marketing Assistant (26k per annum, hybrid, full-time, fixed-term contract until September 2026)

Job Role

This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic person who is keen to develop within an ambitious communications and marketing team. Working closely with colleagues across the team, you will have the opportunity to play a vital role in supporting the delivery of a range of exciting and creative campaigns and projects.


This is a varied and exciting role, with the potential for the right candidate to add real value to how we communicate with our colleagues and residents. This is a great opportunity for someone with an excellent level of literacy who wishes to progress their career within communications and marketing, or someone with an interest in the field and a passion for the housing sector and communicating with our residents.


Day to day you'll work alongside our external communications and marketing partner to deliver our annual external communications plan. You'll develop and lead on our resident-facing social media calendar and website content, evaluating the impact evaluation of the team's performance and reporting this to our executive team on a monthly basis. You'll support them in working with colleagues across the organisation to identify good news opportunities for our external channels, including our tri-annual resident's magazine.


You'll support our internal communications partner to deliver key information to colleagues, including updating our well-used intranet, and putting together and delivering a weekly staff newsletter, along with seasonal staff events.

About Us

At West Kent we're passionate about the role a housing association can play in society and believe the

values

of an organisation are what makes it special. Our

vision

is to deliver great places to live and space for people to grow. We want our customers to have a positive experience regardless of who they are, where they live or how and when they choose to interact with us.


Our

values

guide us to how we do things from

delivering on our promises

, working with

honesty, integrity,

and

flexibility,

showing

compassion

and

self-awareness,

as well as a

commitment to learning

and equally important

working hard and having fun

.

Benefits

We offer a great package - generous pension and life cover, health cash plan, flexible leave package which includes an additional three days leave for our Christmas closure, paid time off to volunteer and an annual grant to support your wellbeing. Please see our website for more details about our benefits package.

Application Information

You can access the full job description on our website.

We will only consider applications with a up to date CV and completed application form.

Advert Closing Date: 9am on 12 September 2025

lnterview Dates: 22 and 23 September, 2025