People & Communications

Digital Marketing Apprentice

Fixed Term Contract for 18 Months

37 hours per week

Point 1 - £9,286.22 a year – initial salary for all new starters for the first 12 months of the apprenticeship

Progression of pay after 12 months are complete as follows:

Point 2 - £13,186.05 a year - completed 12 months and aged 19 - 20

Point 3 - £17,722.97 a year - completed 12 months and aged 21 - 22

Point 4 - £18,340.77 a year - completed 12 months and aged 23+

We are looking for a Digital Marketing Apprentice to join our busy Marketing and Communications team at Warwick District Council.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with the team responsible for the council’s marketing, website and social media, public relations, design, advertising, and print. Its purpose is to promote the council’s services to the residents of Warwick district and to share the council’s news, decision-making and initiatives with the public.

We share our news across a number of platforms, and you’ll investigate which groups in the community like to receive their news by which channel. Using that knowledge, you will support the team to brief marketing campaigns, write news articles and promotional material, adapting your content and copywriting to reach the appropriate audience in the correct format.

You will work with different service areas to understand their aims and objectives and have the opportunity to develop and share your creative ideas for digital marketing campaigns. You will then use the available statistics and analytics to evaluate how successful the campaign has been and make recommendations for improvements.

You’ll be an out-going, friendly, “people person” as this role brings you into contact with reporters, councilors, managers and representatives from different councils and organisations.

This post offers the opportunity to study for: Apprenticeship Standard Level 3 in Digital Marketer, BCS Principles of coding Certificate, CIW - Social Media Analyst Certificate and CIW - Internet Business Associate Certificate.

No experience is necessary as full training will be provided to the successful candidate. Qualifications required are 5 GCSEs, grades A-C, including Maths and English or equivalent qualification or experience, ICT Literate including knowledge of Word and Excel.

The Training Provider for this apprenticeship is Creative Alliance. Please click on this link for details of the course

If you are already qualified in this subject area, or a similar subject area, at an equivalent/higher level then you may be ineligible to apply.

If you are unsure of your eligibility to apply for this apprenticeship, please email hr.support@warwickdc.gov.uk to discuss this further.

The intention is for the postholder to work from home. However, office and hybrid working are also available. Whilst home working is offered for this role, it is a requirement that the successful candidate be available to attend meetings at our offices in Royal Leamington Spa when required. Any costs for travel from home to the office will be met by the successful candidate.

If you have any questions or wish to have an informal discussion, please contact

Nicki Curwood email nicki.curwood@warwickdc.gov.uk or telephone 01926 456120

Closing date: 28th November 2022

Interview date: 6th & 7th December 2022

If you are unable to apply using the 'Apply' button please contact HR Support on vacancies@warwickdc.gov.uk including your contact details and any relevant screenshots.
You will be notified of our shortlisting decision via email, so please check your email on a regular basis after submitting your application.

As part of being a Disability Confident employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the essential criteria for the post. By ‘essential criteria’ we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required for each competence, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential in the person specification. To be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS), applicants must disclose that they have a disability and would like to be considered for the scheme.

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application or recruitment process or upon appointment, please contact vacancies@warwickdc.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.