Content Marketing Manager

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Since being granted our Royal Charter in 1599, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow has been improving health and healthcare for people around the world. 

Today, we are a professional membership body providing education, assessment and development to more than 15,000 Fellows and Members at all stages of their careers. We are a UK organisation with a global membership.

Our estate in the heart of Glasgow city centre includes modern conferencing and events facilities, a rich and extensive heritage collection with museum status, a library and our multi-award winning events offering, 1599 at the Royal College.

Our purpose is built around delivering:

• Excellent education and outstanding member experience
• New standards through assessment and gold standard qualifications
• Transformative impact on the health and wellbeing of the wider world

Our vision: To build an influential global community that enables our Members to develop the skills, knowledge and influence to improve healthcare standards worldwide.

Our mission: We want to enable our Members to achieve their full potential as healthcare professionals and give them an influential voice in the world.

Our values: The College is not a building or a tradition, but a global community. In all that we do, we’re committed to putting our people first: Fellows and Members, those undertaking our education and assessment, colleagues and partners.  

For us, how we work is as important as what we do, and we aim to live by our values. They embody the essence of the College motto, conjurat amice, meaning ‘together in friendship’. It’s an approach that is as relevant today as it was 425 years ago.

• Community Working together to support one another to succeed; listening to and engaging with partners and people, locally, nationally and globally, to achieve our core purpose.
• Integrity Valuing and learning from our heritage and commitment to excellence; never compromising on our core purpose, our standards and the quality of delivery.
• Innovation Proactively challenging current thinking with a forward-looking agile approach that meets the changing needs of our members and all those who interact with us.
• Inspiration Leading by example through open dialogue, teamwork and engagement to maximise our potential and affect change.
• Inclusivity Demonstrating care, kindness, civility, generosity and mutual respect through the way we welcome, work and interact with people.

The role 

The Content Marketing Manager will play a key role in the development, implementation and execution of strategic marketing for the College. They will coordinate marketing communications to raise the profile of the College, to attract interest in the College’s core services, and to meet overall strategic objectives.

The Content Marketing Manager is part of the marketing and creative team and reports to the Senior Marketing Manager. They will develop excellent insight into the career journey and profile of our target audiences. Based on these insights, they will devise and implement content marketing activity across online and offline communication channels to promote and attract interest in the key products and services offered by the College. With outstanding communication skills and a high attention to detail, the job holder will confidently lead on writing, editing and proofreading content for our website and other marketing materials to inform and facilitate engagement with the College.

• This role is 35 hours per week.
• Permanent.

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Who we're looking for

The post-holder will require the following:

   Essential:

• Degree-level education in marketing, journalism or a related subject, or comparable experience

• A minimum of three years’ experience in a professional marketing or communications role

• Excellent communication and editorial skills, with an outstanding proofreading ability and very strong writing skills, particularly writing for the web

• A good understanding of managing and editing webpages using a content management system (CMS)

• Skilled at discovering learnings and insight from data, and making data-driven decisions

• Proven track record in delivering engaging and effective marketing content

• Demonstrable experience of print, email and digital communications

• Confident planning and project management skills; able to prioritise and manage multiple projects ensuring deadlines are met

• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills

• Highly competent in use of Microsoft Office suite

  Desirable:

• Experience of working in a membership or academic environment

• Experience using Drupal CMS

• Skilled at using content management tools such as Surfer SEO, Canva and Monday.com

• Knowledge and experience of paid search advertising using Google Ads and keywords to drive web traffic

• Knowledge and experience of market research and insight

The full job description can be found in the documentation below.

How to apply

Successful candidates will have the requisite ability and experience to meet the specific requirements of the post. If you believe you have the skills to be part of our team then apply by submitting your CV, with a cover letter and Equal Opportunities Monitoring form (available to download above). 

Please note that the College is unable to provide visa sponsorship. Therefore, candidates must already have the right to work in the UK.

Closing Date: Wednesday 25 November 2026

Interview Schedule: Interviews are anticipated to be held on 2 December 2026.

If you have any queries, please contact recruitment@rcpsg.ac.uk

Please note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Any personal data collected from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us in accordance with our recruitment processes. If unsuccessful in your application, your information will be held by us on our database for a period of 6 months before deletion. If you would like your information removed sooner, please contact recruitment@rcpsg.ac.uk 

Please see the application form below.