Senior Marketing Executive - Events & Partnerships

The Role 🛼

We’re looking for a proactive and creative Senior Marketing Executive to help lead our on-the-ground marketing efforts across the UK. You’ll support the planning and execution of our events and partnerships strategy — from student-facing B2C activations to B2B conferences — ensuring our new brand Higherin shows up in the most impactful way possible. This role is perfect for someone who’s passionate about youth marketing, loves being out on campus, and knows how to bring a brand to life through experiences and relationships.

Our Customers 🛒

Our customers are companies that provide early talent schemes, including apprenticeships, internships, and placements. We help them fill these roles through advertising to our talented, engaged, and diverse student community.

Our audience is young people aged 13-24, comprised of mostly school leavers and university students. Our mission is to inspire those young people to take the first steps in their careers.

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Core Responsibilities 🍏

Event Execution & Marketing

• Support the delivery of Higherin’s national B2C events calendar, including Apprenticeship, Freshers & Careers Fairs, and B2B conferences

• Manage event logistics: bookings, staffing, sustainable merchandise, on-site setup, and post-event reporting

• Represent Higherin at events, engaging with students, partners, and prospects to build brand visibility
  Collaborate with the creative and marketing teams internally to ensure all event assets reflect our brand & look amazing!

Partnerships & Outreach

• Build and maintain relationships with universities, student societies, schools/colleges, and youth organisations

• Create and deliver virtual events and webinars to build and develop partnerships with universities and schools / colleges

• Identify new opportunities for collaboration, sponsorships, student ambassadors and brand activations

Campaign Support & Promotion

• Assist in developing pre-, during-, and post-event marketing campaigns to maximise engagement
  Help execute on-the-ground strategies to drive platform sign-ups, and audience growth

• Contribute ideas and content to campaigns that make Higherin stand out as the best in the market

You are right for this role if... ✅

• You have 3+ years' experience in events, partnerships, or student marketing, ideally with a youth or early careers focus

• You are confident and professional when representing a brand in-person

• You are a confident public speaker with the ability to present ideas clearly and persuasively to internal and external stakeholders

• You are ready to collaborate with the internal Creative and Marketing teams to ensure all event assets reflect our brand & look amazing!

• You can execute on-the-ground strategies to drive platform sign-ups, and audience growth

• You have excellent organisational, project management and presentation skills

• You have a data-driven mindset with an ability to track performance, analyse data, and optimise for results

• You are a natural relationship builder with strong interpersonal and communication skills

• You are comfortable with frequent travel across the UK for events and activations where necessary

• Passionate about youth culture, career development, and mission-led brand

• You are a creative and proactive person

• You have good communication skills, both written and in-person

Amazing (but not essential) if... 💭

• Experience working with universities, schools/colleges or student marketing
  

• Familiarity with tools like Canva, Dot Digital, Notion, and HubSpot
  

• Background in early careers, recruitment, or startup environments

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Hybrid working✨

We have a hybrid work set-up, whereby you'll be expected to work from our office in Brixton a minimum of 2 days per month, with more time encouraged. If you need more flexibility than this, please let us know. 

Salary 💰

£35,000 per annum depending on experience.

Application process 💻

1. First stage - 30 minute video interview
2. Final stage - 1 hour in-person interview in our offices in Brixton

All candidates must have proof of right to work in the UK. We cannot provide visa sponsorship for this role.