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A Digital Marketing Executive to join our team

Digital Marketing Executive

Catalyst is seeking a Digital Marketing Executive to play a central role within our marketing team, helping to communicate and amplify our vision for innovation across Northern Ireland. This role will support the development and delivery of creative marketing campaigns that showcase Catalyst’s programmes, partnerships, and impact within the innovation ecosystem. Working collaboratively across teams, the Marketing Executive will help create engaging content, manage digital channels, and support events and initiatives that highlight Catalyst’s mission to connect entrepreneurs, industry, academia, and investors. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated marketing professional to contribute to strengthening Northern Ireland’s reputation as a global hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Key Information

  • Full time, fixed term contract (Maternity cover) ending July 2027.
  • Salary up to £31,000 per annum depending on experience.
  • Attractive benefits package.
  • Based at the Innovation Centre, Queen’s Road, Belfast (hybrid working arrangement available).
  • Reporting to the Brand Lead
  • Closing 30th April

Interested?

Benefits of working at Catalyst

Competitive Benefits Package
Private medical insurance for you and your dependents
Generous pension contribution
Generous life assurance policy
Enhanced parental leave packages
Free open access to company organised events
Free parking onsite

Responsibilities

  • Support the delivery of Catalyst’s marketing strategy by coordinating campaigns and marketing activities that promote Catalyst to its target audiences and contribute to organisational objectives.
  • Manage multiple marketing projects from initial brief through to delivery, including content planning, campaign timelines and stakeholder communication.
  • Support the creation of marketing content across digital channels including website, newsletters and social media platforms.
  • Coordinate email communications, including newsletters and campaign emails, and maintain relevant mailing lists and distribution channels.
  • Capturing and sharing live social coverage during events to drive audience engagement.
  • Measuring and reporting performance of digital marketing through online analytics tools (including Google Analytics) and assess against goals.
  • Ensure all digital communications are high quality, with consistent messaging and clear alignment with Catalyst brand guidelines.
  • Assist with copywriting and co-ordinating Catalyst publication.
  • Maintaining our media library.
  • Undertaking any other reasonable duties which fall within the remit of this role.

Essential Criteria

  • 3+ years experience in digital marketing and communication
  • Experience of social media management and ability to develop creative marketing ideas
  • Experience in email/newsletter marketing
  • Experience in planning, executing, and optimising digital campaigns
  • Ability to analyse performance data and produce reports and an understanding of conversion and engagement metrics
  • Strong proof-reading ability and copy writing skills
  • Ability to prioritise and multitask to deliver to strict deadlines
  • Excellent time management and organisational skill
  • Good analytical thinking and problem-solving skill
  • Proven ability to work and collaborate with the wider team and external stakeholders

Desirable Criteria

  • Degree in marketing, business, communications, or another relevant subject
  • A genuine interest in innovation and entrepreneurship, especially in the tech sector
  • Working knowledge of CMS Systems
  • Experience testing and optimising campaigns (A/B testing)
  • Strong visual awareness and understanding of design for marketing
  • Professional certificates in marketing, PR or communications

Special Requirements

  • Proof of right to work in the UK
  • On occasion to work evenings and weekends for events

Criteria may be enhanced to aid shortlisting. Exceptional candidates who do not meet the criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience.

More info about Catalyst

  • About Catalyst

    Catalyst is an independent, non-profit science and technology hub, driving innovation-led growth in Northern Ireland. We help founders, SMEs, researchers and global organisations turn ideas into real-world impact through space, support and collaboration. Every surplus we generate is reinvested into inclusive entrepreneurship, innovation programmes and community impact, building a more competitive, resilient and inclusive economy. Our vision is opportunity for all from world-leading innovation.

  • Diversity and Inclusion at Catalyst

    Diversity and inclusion aren’t boxes to tick on a CSR list. At Catalyst, they are part of our DNA, lived, breathed, seen, and heard across our community, projects, and co-working spaces. We not only want to foster and empower a culture of innovation, but also an environment where people can be their true, authentic self and thrive, and we are proud to be recognised by the Diversity Charter for achieving silver status, with ambitions to progress to Gold.

     

    As an equal opportunity employer, we recruit based solely on the individual’s ability to perform the role, and that’s allowed us to create an inclusive workplace which celebrates the diversity of our teams and community.

  • Working at Catalyst

    A certified Great Place to Work® and recognised as one of the top 100 Workplaces in the UK for 2024, receiving awards for Best Place to Work, Best Workplace for Development, Best Workplace for Employee Wellbeing, and Best Place to Work for Women, Catalyst is one of Northern Ireland’s most exciting employers.

     

    With a strong vision of opportunity for all from world-leading innovation, this is a workplace brimming with ambition to create social, cultural, and economic advantage. We are a force for good, bold in our approach with integrity at our core and passion in everything we do.

  • Out Values

    INTEGRITY

    We approach everything with a straightforward, open and honest attitude. Every new challenge requires a brave, smart, and flexible way of thinking and we put integrity at the heart of every decision. Our strong moral code intuitively understands what doing the right thing means in every situation.

     

    PASSION

    We love what we do. We are committed to our members and partners, ready to go above and beyond for the future we are building together. This is the ‘Catalyst Way’. We sharpen our senses, take calculated risks together and work hard for a brighter future.

     

    BE BOLD

    Be ambitious and dare to be different. We are the catalyst that connects entrepreneurs and businesses to an eco-system and community that transforms ideas and innovation into real-world reality with global impact.

Have a question?

Contact Emma at joe.finnegan@wearecatalyst.org

Joe Finnegan

Joe Finnegan

HR Officer

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