What’s the job?

We're looking for an enthusiastic, and creative student to join us for our annual summer Marketing Internship. We use the time over the summer to plan for the following year, and this is where you will come in! The work you will do will provide you with invaluable experience in strategic-level marketing planning.

Your project will be to construct the typical student journey for Heriot-Watt Students. From enrolment to end-of-year celebrations, you'll uncover key milestones and identify potential touchpoints where the Student Union can shine. Following that, you will use your initial work to inform the development of our annual marketing campaign. Particularly, you will be involved in:

• Applying taught marketing techniques to craft informative user journey maps and personas.
• Working with the Marketing Coordinator to aid in the development of this year's annual campaign.
• Idea generation and possible activation overseeing
• Showing off your writing skills by creating captivating copy for marketing materials to be used throughout the year.

This role is ideal for someone bursting with ideas around the marketing concepts that we've outlined. We imagine you'll have a keen eye for detail, a generous dose of creative flair, and the knowledge to take an idea through to a finished campaign.

The job is part-time – 20 hours per week. Hybrid working is available for this role! However, we are keen on at least x amount of days per week working in the office too.

Who are we?

We are Heriot-Watt University Student Union. We’re based in Edinburgh and our main goal is to make sure that Heriot-Watt students have THE BEST TIME whilst studying here. We have our commercial outlets as well as Advice Hub, academic representation, societies, and community, plus we work with students to make their time at Heriot-Watt the best it can be.

Marketing and Communications are key priorities for us at the moment, and year after year we are seeing growth in our engagement scores. We are keen to continue our past work – whilst hopefully bringing in new ideas.

What do you get?

The role pays £11.44 per hour plus holiday pay. You will be fully supported by the existing Marketing and Communications Coordinator and you’ll be involved in helping to shape our strategy going forward.

You will also gain invaluable experience in assisting with marketing campaigns from concept to delivery.

Is this job for you?

If you answer yes to these questions, then click apply now!

• Do you have a marketing/communications background?
• Are you keen to gain experience in a marketing/comms role?
• Are you full of creativity?
• Are you interested in applying your learned marketing techniques to a real-life setting?
• Will you enjoy finding new and better ways to our yearly planning?
• Do you want to help make your Student Union even better?

So let’s recap…

• 20 hours per week
• £11.44 per hour + holiday pay
• Training in the systems we use, and how we work
• Working with great people

Want your application to stand out?

Make sure you show off your marketing skills by selling yourself well!

We’re looking forward to hearing from you, and hopefully welcoming you to our team!