We’re looking for a part-time Marketing & Social Media Assistant (8 hours per week)

If you love social media, creativity and innovation then you could be just who we're looking for.

We're looking for an enthusiastic & motivated person to create engaging content that gets us noticed, sharing information about the brilliant courses and classes we run and generally spreading the word about our beautiful studio and wonderful teachers.

You’ll be working across both the Bristol School of Yoga and Laura Gilmore Yoga brands, and will work closely with our Director, Laura Gilmore, and the marketing manager Molly Pickering, in the central Bristol studio.

The role is part-time, 8 hours per week, split across two days.

About the role

BSY- Bristol School of Yoga has a reputation as one of the best yoga teacher training schools in the country. As well as 200 hour, Bristol School of Yoga offers in-person yoga classes and online yoga courses for people looking to develop their own yoga practice.

You will be helping drive our marketing strategy, specifically to:

  • Ensure courses reach capacity

  • Increase brand awareness

  • Integrate the experience of the trainees into our course advertising and social media output

  • Develop the brand - its voice, position in the industry, reputation

  • Organically grow a community of engaged students

LGY- runs online trainings and your role will be to work with Laura to expand her reach through social media and to create a content plan, within her overall content strategy. You will then manage the content calendar with posts ready for insta, Facebook and YouTube.

Key responsibilities

Your main focus will be Social Media planning, content creation and reporting (currently Facebook and Instagram), and engaging with our community to extend our engagement and reach.

  • Planning, filming & editing social media content

  • Creating engaging posts and stimulating engagement in Facebook groups

  • Updating website content so that lead magnets & links referred to in socials posts are ready and updated

  • Promoting events such as open evenings

  • Updating marketing literature

  • There will be occasional evening and weekend work e.g. engaging with our trainees

About you

You have previous experience in a marketing and/or social media role

Essential:

  • Videography skills

  • Video editing & image editing software

  • A proactive, creative approach

  • Excellent understanding of Social Media platforms and how to use them, specifically Instagram, Facebook & YouTube

  • Excellent writing skills and fantastic attention to detail

  • Good interpersonal skills to engage directly with the teachers and trainees

Desirable skills:

  • Knowledge of the different software packages we use (Squarespace, Flodesk, Canva, Asana, Kajabi) or confident to quickly learn

  • Be based in Bristol and work from the office in Stokes Croft

Pay and Contract

This is a self-employed role for 8 hours per week at £15 per hour. Potential to extend to a full time position in the right circumstances after 3 months probation.

How to apply

Please email a copy of your CV, examples of social media content you have created and a covering letter explaining your interest and suitability for the role to hello@lauragilmoreyoga.co.uk by Wednesday 28 Nov. 2024.

It is envisaged that interviews will take place on Tuesday 2nd Dec 2024 at the Bristol School of Yoga studio.