Marketing Assistant

**Location**:Porto, Portugal

**Salary**:€14,000 - €18,000

**Reports to**: Marketing Manager

**About Us**

Reading Room is a leading digital agency with over 20 years of experience in delivering impactful digital experiences for clients across the public sector, membership organisations, and more. We’re part of the Rippleffect Group, with offices in the UK, Portugal, and the Philippines. We’re driven by curiosity, collaboration, inclusivity, transparency and resourcefulness - and we’re looking for someone who shares those values to join our team.

**About The Role**

You’ll work closely with our Marketing Manager to ensure campaigns run smoothly, content is high quality, and events are well-supported. It’s a varied role where you’ll gain hands-on experience across many different marketing disciplines.

**What You'll Be Doing**

**Campaign & Content Support**
- Assist in planning and delivering marketing campaigns
- Conduct industry and competitor research
- Write and proof blogs, whitepapers, and social content
- Upload content to our CMS (e.g., Umbraco)
- Plan and schedule social media posts (LinkedIn, Instagram, X/Twitter)
- Design simple graphics and assets (e.g., Canva)

**Event Management**
- Help organise our conference appearances and event logistics
- Liaise with organisers and coordinate travel/accommodation
- Prepare marketing materials and coordinate team schedules

**Internal Communications & Awards**
- Contribute to internal newsletters and presentations
- Manage the awards calendar and assist with submissions

**General Admin & Collaboration**
- Maintain the marketing asset library and SharePoint
- Help schedule meetings and manage task delivery
- Collaborate with designers, developers, and content specialists

**What We're Looking For**

**Qualifications and Training**
- Degree or equivalent qualification in Marketing, Communications, English, Business or related field
- Professional certifications in digital marketing (e.g., Google, HubSpot)

**Knowledge and Skills**
- Fluent English language skills with excellent written and verbal communication (a language standard of C2 will be required)
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
- Experience creating engaging content for targeted audiences across
different mediums (written, visual, presentations, short form, white papers)
- Practical experience using social media platforms professionally (LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter)
- Ability to design simple social graphics and video content (e.g., Canva, basic Adobe skills)
- Knowledge of event and project management
- Familiarity with working in an agency or B2B marketing environment
- Data handling skills, with a focus on using marketing data to produce insight reports on marketing performance

**Experience**
- Previous experience in a marketing, communications or content related role
- Experience writing and editing marketing content, and managing a content calendar
- Hands-on experience managing social media accounts in a professional capacity
- Experience supporting event delivery (e.g conferences, webinars)
- Experience using CMS platforms for website updates (e.g., Umbraco)
- Experience in specialist areas of marketing and related fields, such as: SEO, paid media advertising, graphic design, performance marketing, brand, marketing automation, data & analytics is a bonus
- Experience working in B2B marketing, particularly in an agency setting

**Personal Attributes**
- Highly organised and detail orientated
- Creative thinker with a passion for marketing and content
- Collaborative team player who enjoys working with different departments
- Confident communicator, verbally and in writing
- Adaptable and keen to learn new marketing technologies and trends
- Enthusiastic, proactive and able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously

**Why Join Us**
- Flexible hybrid working options
- Inclusive and values-driven team culture
- Opportunities to learn and grow in an agency setting
- Exciting, varied projects with meaningful impact A chance to shape how we communicate and share our brand with the world

**How to apply**

Do you like the sound of this? If so, we’d love to hear from you Please send us your CV and a short paragraph telling us about you and why you would like to work with us, and we’ll be in touch.
- Given the nature of the business and our clients’ requirements, any job offers issued will be conditional upon the return of a satisfactory basic background check and employment references._

**Reading Room & Rippleffect Group is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce and everyone we work with, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.