Marketing Project Manager

🚨New Marketing Vacancy Alert 🚨

If you’re a marketing pro who lives for a well-managed team of copywriters, digital content editors, loves to craft impressive projects plans, and a perfectly executed content roll-out, we want to hear from you 👂.

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💎Come and join the team, apply here:

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Requisition ID:  29170

Location:  Newcastle, GB

Contract Type:  Fixed Term

Working Pattern:  Full Time

Posted Date:  12 Mar 2026

Salary: £35,608.00 - £37,694.00  per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date: 26 March 2026

The Role

Newcastle University is embarking on an exciting curriculum transformation as part of our Education Strategy 2030+. Through our new Leading Edge Curriculum Framework, we’re reviewing the shape, design, content and delivery of all programmes to ensure our students gain the knowledge, skills and experiences they need to thrive academically, professionally and personally.

Our redesigned programmes will place real-world learning at their core, creating opportunities for students to engage with research, industry, practice and society throughout their studies.

To help bring this vision to life, we’re seeking an exceptional Marketing Project Manager to lead the strategic marketing delivery of this landmark transformation. This is a high-profile, complex programme of work at the centre of our student recruitment strategy - one that demands sharp project leadership, confident stakeholder management and the ability to orchestrate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver outstanding results.

You’ll ensure this project is delivered on time, on budget and to a high standard, collaborating with academic colleagues, senior leaders and internal partners.

You’ll be responsible for managing team members and organising workflow planning to ensure the smooth running of this project team. With your project management skills, you are pivotal in organising digital projects to support our education narrative.

Through your exceptional client and project management experience you will manage the relationship between internal and external stakeholders, including coordinating input from cross-functional teams at the same time.

For informal enquiries about this role, please contact jason.yip@ncl.ac.uk 

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the end-to-end management of the Leading Edge Curriculum marketing project, from scoping and planning through to delivery and evaluation.
• Develop detailed project plans including timelines, budgets, resource allocation and risk registers.
• Monitor project progress, track milestones and proactively manage risks and issues.
• Oversee content production workflows, ensuring high-quality outputs across digital and offline channels.
• Use data and insight to inform decision-making and optimise project delivery.
• Produce regular status reports and performance updates for senior stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to improve marketing processes, systems and ways of working.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams’ contribution including digital, content, brand, design, and external agencies.
• Build and maintain a positive culture of collaborative delivery and continuous improvement with individuals and the wider Marketing Team.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships across the university; maintaining frequent contact with key stakeholders to ensure they are regularly updated on the progress of the project.
• Other duties as required to support marketing delivery as required.

The Person (Essential)

Knowledge, Skills and Experience 

• Significant experience in marketing project management, ideally within higher education or a similarly complex organisation.
• Proven track record of delivering concurrent marketing projects to tight deadlines.
• Practiced experience in the use of project management tools and the production of related documents e.g. project timelines, resource calculations, project risk analysis etc.
• Experience of managing a team, preferably within a marketing environment.
• Able to manage internal and external stakeholders to achieve business objectives, identify any issues and resolve them in a timely manner with competing deadlines and limited resources.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with proven success in building relationships across all levels, internally and externally.
• Strong digital marketing and or digital/web delivery and management skill set.
• Knowledge of the Higher Education sector is desirable, but not essential.

Attributes and Behaviour

• Uses clear, concise, and accurate communication, tailoring the approach accordingly and encouraging a two-way communication process.
• Works collaboratively with others, plays a positive role in teams and establishes and grows relationships across the project where different skills, expertise and opinions are valued.
• Generates a range of viable options and decides on an appropriate course of action that best fits organisational and area goals.
• Manages time and resources by prioritising and organising effectively. 

Qualifications

• Graduate or equivalent qualification/working experience
• Chartered Institute of Marketing qualification or another relevant marketing/communication professional qualification is desirable.
• Project management qualification or demonstrable project management experience.

Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.  As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive university which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society.  We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all of our employees and the communities they represent.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams, we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diversity of our university and student population.

At Newcastle University we hold a Gold Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality.  We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC.  We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.

In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe.