Overview
Job Title: Copywriter (Maternity Cover)
Salary: Commencing at £28,796 with progression to £30,527 per annum
Closing Date: 2025-08-31
About the Role
Fixed Term – Maternity Cover
An exciting role has arisen for a passionate and creative copywriter to join our team at Luminate Education Group, on a 1 year maternity cover. Our team is made up of graphic designers, animators, copywriters and filmmakers, who are a part of the wider Marketing department at Luminate Education Group. You will be working with a collection of FE colleges, each has its own successful identity which is recognized locally.
We are looking for someone who has a fresh approach to writing copy, who will work collaboratively with our existing creative team to create impactful campaigns.
What You Will Do
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Work closely with the creative team to develop key messages and create creative concepts to meet objectives.
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Develop a keen knowledge of the group’s individual colleges and brand identities.
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Write a range of creative marketing collateral copy in response to departmental briefs.
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Own and maintain the house style guide and produce work in line with brand guidelines.
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Write concise, attention grabbing, engaging copy for social media campaigns.
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Understand a range of complex target audiences.
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Manage relationships with curriculum members and understand their individual requirements.
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Be creative, and ensure your personality and flare shines through in your work.
About You
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Experience of producing compelling copy for a variety of platforms.
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Proven ability to adapt writing styles and tones of voice to meet the needs of different audiences.
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Demonstrable ability to produce efficient and quality copy solutions to meet unexpected issues or developments.
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Ability to develop creative messaging and campaign ideas.
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Experience of working in line with an established style guide.
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A basic knowledge of a marketing environment, branding and adherence to brand guidelines.
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An interest in social media and an appreciation for content that strikes the right tone with an audience.
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A passion for creativity and a fresh and innovative approach to copywriting.
Benefits
The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:
Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays
Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme
CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.
Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).
Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.
About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions – Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.
SAFEGUARDING
At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. It’s not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyone’s contributions and perspectives.
RECRUITMENT AGENCIES
We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not forward any unsolicited CVs in relation to any of our advertised roles or speculatively. If we require support with any of our vacancies we will get in touch with agencies directly.
- We do not recognise submissions of unsolicited or speculative CV applications from recruitment agencies.
- We shall not be liable for any fee / commission in the event we employ a candidate that may have been submitted as an unsolicited/speculative application from an uninstructed recruitment agency.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
