Marketing & Communications Manager - FTC
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Marketing & Communications Manager - FTC at Digital Catapult: Belfast, United Kingdom; Hybrid; Contract; Senior; Marketing & Growth. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: Belfast, United Kingdom, Hybrid
- Role classification: Marketing & Growth, Contract, Senior
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-06-09.
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We are looking for an experienced and confident, hands-on marketing and communications professional to join Digital Catapult for 12 months as maternity cover from September 2026-September 2027. You will play a pivotal role in our Northern Ireland programmes and projects (working on activities for two of our largest programmes UK Digital Twin Centre and Smart Nano NI along with providing ad hoc support on other programmes, projects and regional activities), leading activities and campaigns covering marketing, communications and events in collaboration with internal teams and external partners around the UK. You’ll maximise the reach and engagement of these campaigns, ensuring consistency of quality, brand and tone of voice, to successfully deliver work that attracts and onboards startups to our accelerator programmes, and enhances our organisation’s reputation.
WHAT YOU’LL DO (Duties)
- Manage end-to-end marketing planning and campaign delivery.
- Lead marketing activities for events to reach key audiences and manage events in-person and/or online on the day, including large scale showcase events and demo days.
- Manage content delivery – draft written content, manage production of video content, and produce digital content to support programme delivery.
- Build successful working collaborations with internal teams and a range of external partners.
- Support our UK Digital Twin Centre Community Manager to ensure content is on brand and aligned to programme, and wider Digital Catapult, messaging.
- Work with senior leaders in Northern Ireland to provide advice and input into programme deliverables and ensure marketing and communications activities remain on schedule and aligned to KPIs.