Marketing Vacancy

Park Hill Farm, Hales, Market Drayton, Shropshire. TF9 2QA


Tel 01630 652178

E-mail beef@parkhillarm.co.uk

Vacancy - Voluntary Marketing & Project Support Assistant

The Business

Main industry is farming, but have diversified into educational visits, and farm shop

Award winning family farm, farming pedigree suckler cows and pigs for supplying the farm shop. Own meat is sold at farmers' markets, shows and the farm shop. Also has an educational strand welcoming schools and groups to teach about food, farming, environment etc.

The Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity for a Marketing/Media/Business Studies Graduate to gain experience within a small business based in the village of Hales, Market Drayton. Our location is within Staffordshire, but our postal address is Shropshire!.

As a volunteer for this marketing/project support internship you will be supporting the owner of the company with:

Raising awareness and making the maximum opportunities of the farm winning the UK and Ireland National Countryside Alliance Award for "Enterprise", through a marketing campaign which should include:


- Locating and making press contacts

- Inviting the press to meet the owners

- Preparing press releases

- Updating website

- Using other medias - such as DVD, and speaking to radio stations

- Arranging opportunities to work with other medias and working partners as and when possible

- Keeping in contact with customers

- Develping social networking sites for the owners and preparing a social media strategy



Helping increase the number of educational visits to the farm via press releases etc

Assisting with small group visits and Open Days

Making telephone calls and sending e-mails and letters

Assisting at shows and farmers markets to promote the good work of the farm

Outcome

The outcome will be increased awareness of the educational strand to the farm, and also the environmentally friendly meat that we produce, resulting in a platform for increasing our database and business.

Skills required

Happy to "have a go" and take the project forward attitude


• Good communication skills and being able to communicate with a variety of people

• Flexible

• Able to work off your own initiative, and use the Web for research from your own home sometimes

• Familiar with MS Office, E-mail, Internet

• Able to "Tweet" and use "Face Book" to a level to promote the business

• Willing to undertake website work, and work with our website designer

• Willing to learn how to upload to You Tube etc

• Passionate to help people and be able to assist with people with disabilities who may visit farm

Location

The farm is located between Loggerhead and Market Drayton, which is on a main bus route. Would be happy to collect from bus stop.


You will need Access to your own transport and driving licence, or willingness to catch a bus

How to apply

e-mail Pat Pimlott on beef@parkhillfarm.co.uk please with your CV, stating why this vacancy will be mutually beneficial.

Some expenses will be paid.