Assistant Marketing Manager

The Assistant Marketing Manager supports top of funnel demand generation marketing activity. They are responsible for leading the planning, delivery, and optimisation of social media and community activity for ELT audiences and providing hands-on production support for in-house media activity. With a focus on driving engagement, growth, and impact across educator communities, the role ensures content and community activity are insight-driven, strategically aligned, and maximise contribution to marketing and campaign objectives. Working collaboratively across teams, it translates audience understanding into high-performing content and meaningful community experiences. This role plays a key part in amplifying Oxford University Press's brand presence, increasing engagement, and ensuring high-quality social and media output aligned to OUP values. Key responsibilities in this role will include:

• Plan and deliver content creation, for teacher focused social media channels, developing engaging, and platform native social content, including video.
• Collaborate with freelancers, influencers, and other teams across Central Marketing team to plan, produce and edit high-quality, engaging content tailored to the educator community.
• Manage the editorial calendar for teacher-focused social media content
• Provide operational support (basic video editing, exports and content preparation) for in house media production, particularly Talking ELT podcast for ELT professionals.
• Work with Marketing Manager to build strong customer communities, fostering engagement and conversations.
• Actively engage with the educator community by responding to comments, messages, and mentions across all platforms in a timely, empathetic and professional manner.
• Identify and escalate sensitive or high-impact feedback to the relevant internal stakeholders, ensuring timely resolution.
• Use social media listening tools to monitor teacher feedback, sentiment, and trends, applying insights to refine content and engagement strategies.
  
  To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:
• Strong understanding of social media platforms, including their algorithms, best practices, and audience behaviours.
• Excellent communication and content creation skills, including writing, basic graphic design (e.g. Canva), and short-form video editing.
• Collaborative and proactive approach, able to work cross-functionally and contribute to wider marketing and community goals.
• Strong organisational skills, flexibility and ability to manage multiple priorities
• Empathy, curiosity and awareness of audience needs, with a genuine interest in supporting and engaging the ELT educator community.
• Basic working knowledge of the Adobe suite. In particular, Premiere Pro, Media Encoder & Photoshop
• Confidence in filming content and working with basic video production equipment
• Basic knowledge of Adobe After Effects (desirable)
• Knowledge of ELT teaching methods and digital trends in the ELT education sector (desirable)
• Experience supporting or working within a studio or media production environment (desirable), English Language Teaching
  
  We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts. This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.