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International Women in Engineering Day celebrated its 8th year in 2021. Initially a national day in the UK from 2014, it received UNESCO patronage in 2016 and went truly global the following year. INWED is an international awareness campaign which raises the profile of women in engineering and focuses attention on the amazing career opportunities available to women and girls in this exciting industry.
The theme for 2021 was engineering heroes, focusing on what women had contributed during the pandemic, both the obvious such as contributing to the medical management of COVID-19 and the equally important behind the scenes work to keep the lights on, goods flowing and systems functioning as the world underwent dramatic shifts away from business as usual.
For 2021, we were tasked with continuing the growth trajectory, measured primarily by the reach which was recorded at 103 million for 2020. Whilst no set target was outlined by the client beyond exceeding the 103 million, we set ourselves an agency side goal of exceeding 200 million.
A secondary objective was to secure additional sponsorship, to cover the cost of having external marketing support and we were determined to achieve this also.
“The Board and I are delighted with the campaign. Thanks for organising a brilliant INWED.”
Our strategy to reach our main audience of women engineers, prospective women engineers and male allies across the globe was to make ours just one voice of many, a servant leader role focusing on:
Our secondary target market was for sponsorship, and this was far more granular. We knew we needed to reach diversity and inclusion manager at brands either solely devoted to engineering or with a substantial engineering component of their workforce. We understood that spray and pray wouldn’t work here, so we conducted detailed research to form our prospect list at an account level, then used LinkedIn to identify the key contacts.
F1, The IET, UK Government Equalities Office, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team, Nissan Cars, Sky, European Space Agency and Aston Martin Cognizant F1 Team, Females In Racing, Royal Air Force, Sir Patrick Vallance, Stemettes, UK Space Agency, Royal Navy and Australian Chief of Navy.
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This led to an additional 3 firms being brought on board in addition to what had been achieved in 2020. As we were only commissioned to start work in April, many couldn’t support us this year but we are on track to post year on year growth for 2022 by September of this year, before our official campaign even begins.
