Imaginative, Creative Marketing Intern / Graduate
We’re looking for a creative, imaginative, tenacious marketing intern to join our crew.
£21,600 a year | 40 hours a week | 28 days holiday a year.
6-12 month (initial) contract with the potential to extend.
You’ll be joining a great team of people, who all work really hard and care about what they do.
You should work for Land & Wave if…
You want to work by the sea with energetic, friendly, outdoorsy people.
You like to work hard and meet new people.
You like dogs.
We’ve grown steadily over the last 12 years and need someone with lots of energy who can help us engage with new customers.
You’ll be part of a great marketing team – helping us produce loads of content, making sure campaigns stay on track, assisting with branding and social media and hosting events like open days, adventure festivals and community weekends.
The must haves…
A a marketing intern you must be kind, compassionate and positive.
Be a marketing/ business/ communications graduate or intern OR Have a huge enthusiasm for adventure and the great outdoors alongside some professional experience.
Be articulate and engaging.
Be comfortable talking to people on the phone, sending emails, writing copy and taking photos.
Excellent social skills – you’ll be talking to clients face-to-face, so you need to be warm and engaging.
Be imaginative and creative.
A driver’s license.
If you’re not hardworking, enthusiastic and energetic, then we’re not interested.
If you’re good at what you do we’ll reward and promote you.
The nice-to-haves…
Knowledge of Facebook ads / Google Ads
Video editing (Premier Pro or similar)
Adobe Photoshop and Canva skills
Experience planning and hosting events
Knowledge of CRM systems and lead management
Where and Why?
Land & Wave HQ is in Swanage. We help people have adventures all over Dorset and further afield.
We’re a sociable bunch and there’s always adventures to get involved in, our staff have access to all our equipment including our fleet of paddle boards and kayaks.
Almost all our staff live in Swanage or just across the water in Poole, lots of people cycle to work and there’s plenty of opportunity to share lifts on rainy days.
Land & Wave subsidise outdoor/ adventure clothing, equipment and training. A £250 wetsuit might cost you £90.
There are regular staff trips to mountains, rivers, crags and coastlines.
We’re still growing, it’s a great time to join the company.
We recently were awarded ‘The Best Place to Work 2023’ and ‘Best Overall Company 2023’ in the recent Purbeck Business Awards.
A few upcoming Projects
- Developing our outdoor ambassador programme
- Diversity in the Outdoor Industry – help us to make positive change
- Getting kids outdoors; working in partnership with other companies to make adventure accessible
- Promoting our apprenticeship schemes to a wider audience
- Making Outdoor Instructor Training accessible
How to apply…
Please send a cover letter and CV to [email protected].
Please only send Google Doc’s or PDF’s.
You must use ‘Marketing Intern | Graduate’ as the title of your email.
DO NOT apply for this role until you’ve done a little research and can give a great answer to the question ‘why do you want to work for Land & Wave’.
You can find out more information about Land & Wave by browsing through our website , our blog and our social media channels.
Please find out as much as you can about us before you send us an application.
We’ll be interviewing by arrangement during March / April.
We’d like to fill this role asap.
