We're Hiring! Junior Marketing Executive / Marketing Assistant

Company: UK Tournament Circuit

Location: Fully remote, UK-based

Salary: £26,000–£32,000 per year, depending on experience

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Reports to: Internal Programme Manager

Travel: Occasional travel and weekened work at events, tournaments, and conventions may be required

About The UKTC

The UK Tournament Circuit the world's largest organiser of competitive tabletop miniature gaming events. We run major tournaments, community events, and organised play experiences across Warhammer 40,000 and other tabletop gaming systems.

The UKTC is growing quickly. Alongside our flagship events, we are developing new event programmes, community support programmes, media activity, digital tools, and wider organised-play infrastructure. Marketing is central to that growth.

Our marketing function exists to drive ticket sales, grow the UKTC audience, strengthen the community around our events, and make sure the right players see the right message at the right time. We focus on structured, data-led event promotion, ticket sales, efficient ad spend, and long-term community engagement.

We are now looking for a Junior Marketing Executive / Marketing Assistant to support our digital marketing, campaign delivery, asset creation, reporting, and event promotion.

This is a strong opportunity for a junior marketing professional who wants practical responsibility, direct exposure to performance marketing, and the chance to grow with a dynamic company in a highly engaged niche market.

The Role

The Junior Marketing Executive / Marketing Assistant will help plan, create, deliver, monitor, and report on UKTC’s marketing campaigns.

The role will focus primarily on:

• Facebook / Meta Ads

• Google Ads

• Email marketing

• Organic social media

• Digital asset creation

• Event marketing support

• Campaign performance reporting

You will work closely with the Director to promote UKTC events, improve campaign performance, and help turn marketing activity into ticket sales.

This is a hands-on role. You will not just be writing posts or making graphics; you will be helping run campaigns that directly affect event attendance and community growth.

Location and Working Pattern

This is a fully remote role, but applicants must be based in the UK.

Because UKTC is an events business, the successful candidate may occasionally be required to travel to UKTC tournaments, conventions, or promotional activations. This may include helping capture live content, supporting marketing activity on site, assisting with community engagement, or helping promote future events.

Key Responsibilities

You will help set up, monitor, and optimise paid advertising campaigns across Meta and Google.

This may include:

• Building Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns

• Supporting Google Search campaigns

• Uploading creative and copy

• Setting up audiences and retargeting campaigns

• Monitoring cost per click, conversion rate, cost per result, and return on ad spend

• Helping identify which campaigns should be scaled, adjusted, or paused

• Supporting ticket launch and final-push campaigns

You will create and adapt digital marketing assets for campaigns and events.

This may include:

• Paid ad graphics

• Social media graphics

• Email content

• Basic video or short-form content

• On-site event content assets

You do not need to be a designer, but you should be confident creating clean, effective digital assets using tools such as Canva.

You will support UKTC’s direct marketing activity, including:

• Drafting and building event email campaigns

• Supporting post-event emails and surveys

• Segmenting audiences where appropriate

• Monitoring open rates, click-through rates, and conversions

• Helping improve email performance over time

You will help maintain and grow UKTC’s presence across community-facing channels, including:

• Facebook

• Instagram

• Other community channels as required

• Helping create a consistent content rhythm around UKTC events

From time to time, you may support marketing activity at live events, tournaments, or conventions including:

• Capturing photos and short-form video

• Posting live event updates

• Supporting promotional stands or activations

• Helping gather testimonials or player feedback

• Promoting future UKTC events on site

• Creating post-event content

• Supporting community engagement in person

You will help keep campaign activity structured and organised including:

• Maintaining marketing calendars

• Preparing campaign task lists

• Tracking deadlines

• Coordinating assets and copy

• Supporting event-by-event marketing plans

• Making sure launch campaigns, reminder campaigns, and final-push campaigns happen on time

The role requires someone who can turn a marketing plan into completed actions.

You will help track and report on marketing performance including:

• Ticket sales

• Ad spend

• Cost per ticket sale

• Click-through rates

• Cost per click

• Cost per result

• Conversion rates

• Return on ad spend

• Email open and click rates

• Social reach and engagement

• Website traffic and event page views

You will be expected to help prepare regular performance summaries for the Director, identifying what is working, what is not working, and what should be tested next.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone at an early stage of their marketing career who is ready to take on real responsibility.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Some experience in digital marketing, paid advertising, email marketing, or social media marketing

• Familiarity with Meta Ads Manager and/or Google Ads is essential

• Familiarity of the competitive 40k scene is desierable

• Confidence creating basic digital assets

• Strong written communication skills

• Good attention to detail

• An organised and structured approach to work

• Comfort working remotely

• A willingness to monitor data and learn from campaign performance

• Commercial awareness and an understanding that marketing should drive measurable results

• Interest in tabletop gaming, events, esports, hobbies, fandoms, or community-led markets

Useful Skills

The following would be advantageous:

• Canva,

• Mailchimp, Brevo, Klaviyo, or another email platform

• Google Analytics

• Meta Pixel, Google Tags, or UTM tracking

• Basic video editing or short-form content creation

• Copywriting for ads, email, or social media

• Experience managing social media pages or online communities

• Understanding of segmentation, retargeting, and customer journeys

• Experience marketing events, tickets, hobby products, or fan communities

The Person

This role would suit someone who is:

• Proactive and practical

• Creative but commercially minded

• Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment

• Able to manage multiple campaigns and deadlines

• Happy working remotely while staying communicative and accountable

• Willing to learn paid advertising and reporting properly

• Interested in growing with the business

• Comfortable occasionally attending events and conventions when required

• Excited by the idea of marketing to a highly engaged community

We are not looking for a finished senior marketer. We are looking for someone with good foundations, strong initiative, and the ability to develop quickly.

Why Join UKTC?

This is an opportunity to join a growing company at an important stage in its development.

You will gain hands-on experience, you will work closely with the Director and have the chance to make a visible impact on event attendance, campaign performance, and UKTC’s wider growth.

For the right person, this role could develop into a broader marketing management position as the company continues to expand.

Salary

The salary range for this role is £26,000–£32,000 per year, depending on experience.

How to Apply

To apply, please send your CV and a short covering note explaining:

• why you are interested in the role;

• what marketing experience you have so far;

• which platforms or tools you have used;

• whether you have experience with paid ads, email marketing, social media, or digital asset creation;

• and why you think you would be a good fit for UKTC.

Please send applications to: zachary.becker@uktc.events