Marketing and Campaigns Coordinator

Location: London Bridge
Job Type: Full time
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract – Mat Cover 12 months
Salary: £30,000 - £32,000

About In Kind Direct

For nearly 30 years, In Kind Direct has been at the forefront of product redistribution in the UK, ensuring that no one misses out on life’s essentials. Founded by HM The King, we partner with leading brands and retailers to channel everyday goods—hygiene items, household products, toys, clothing and more—to over 6,000 community groups. Every week, we help more than half a million people in need. Yet, poverty and exclusion remain as key challenges within the UK, and we’re on a mission to reach even more people with more products.

Our values

We work with kindness, togetherness and integrity, driving innovation.

The opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced and proactive Marketing and Campaign Coordinator, to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract (maternity cover) who will be integral to delivering our 5 year strategy to raise awareness of hygiene poverty and ensure In Kind Direct is the thought leader on hygiene poverty within the sector. They will play a key role in planning and implementation of our new strategy, supporting the Marketing Manager, focusing on coordinating brand / partner campaigns throughout the year, supporting on larger scale integrated campaigns and being the day to day contact for our social media agency- ensuring our channels are performing well and co-creating new content ideas. Whether a period poverty campaign with Bodyform, or a learning through play event with Lego, this role will be involved in truly exciting front line activity.

The role is based out of our London Bridge office. We operate a hybrid working practice and expect the individual to be in the office for 2 days and working from home three days a week.

Key Responsibilities:

Partner Campaigns

• Work closely with the Marketing Manager, Corporate Partner Team and relevant corporate partners to plan and execute several joint campaigns throughout the year.
• Build strong working relationship with internal and external teams
• Provide regular campaign updates
• Attend relevant corporate partner meetings both virtually and in person to plan activity
• Create campaign reports after each joint campaign to highlight impact, metrics, and learnings for presenting back to the wider team.
• Create new webpages and blog posts to help with SEO.

Social Media and CRM

• Work closely with the social media agency to provide briefs for social content, reviewing and signing off social content daily, and creating ad hoc social content using Canva.
• Write briefs for user generated social content to support our storytelling objective.
• Build and schedule monthly newsletters to our network and any ad hoc email marketing required using Dotdigital, working closely with the eCommerce Coordinator.

PR Support

• Proof read press releases and draft spokesperson quotes for PR ahead of campaign launches.
• Work closely with our PR agency and Partnerships and Impact Team to source and secure regional quotes and spokespeople to support PR opportunities.
• Create engaging PowerPoint decks for the wider team to use for upcoming campaigns to garner support from our partners.

Daily and weekly tasks

To succeed in this role you will be able to demonstrate:

• Well organised and able to prioritise a busy workload
• Good communication skills, comfortable speaking and presenting to different audiences.
• Action focused and able to get things done at pace to a high quality
• Strong copywriting and written communication skills
• Canva or Illustrator design skills (or similar)
• A collaborative working style, adaptable to different team styles
• Ability to take responsibility for agreed objectives and targets
• Experience of developing presentations, reports and analytics using PowerPoint and Excel
• Demonstrable interest in the charity sector, corporate responsibility, social enterprise and In Kind Direct’s area of work
• Aligned with IKD values of kindness, togetherness, integrity, and innovation

How to apply

The deadline for applying for this role is 26th September 2025. We ask all applicants to complete an Equal Opportunities Monitoring form, either through our website or our online application process.

To apply, please submit your CV and a brief supporting statement (max. 500 words) through our online application portal.

Applications submitted without a supporting statement may not be considered.

1st-stage interviews will take place on 1st and 2nd October
2nd stage interviews will take place from w/c 6th October

You may also have experience in the following: Marketing Assistant, Digital Marketing Executive, Online Marketing, Events Marketing Assistant, Email Marketing, Digital Marketing Co-ordinator, Events Management, Digital Marketing Specialist, Executive, Events Coordinator, Social Media, Marketing Analytics, Communications etc.

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