How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer ATHE Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and ATHE Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from ATHE Ltd.
The ATHE Level 4 Diploma in Digital Marketing is a vocationally-related qualification. It develops knowledge and skills in areas such as content marketing, search engine marketing, and social media marketing, relevant to the marketing and sales sector.
These are the units ATHE Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with ATHE Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. ATHE Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Content Marketing Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of content marketing in a global digital business context.
- Plan and manage content marketing strategies using digital tools.
- Create and adapt digital content for multi-channel audiences.
- Assess content marketing performance using appropriate analytics.
Digital Business, Marketing Metrics and Analytics Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how digital marketing contributes to the delivery of overall business goals and objectives
- Understand how marketing metrics align to different stages of the customer journey, from awareness to advocacy
- Use an analytics tool to gather relevant digital marketing data
- Measure and interpret digital marketing data to identify trends and patterns
- Apply data insights to recommend improvements to digital marketing activities that support business objectives
Search Engine Marketing Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and value of search engine marketing (SEM) in the digital marketing mix.
- Plan and configure a paid search campaign.
- Create and optimise search adverts in line with platform requirements.
- Evaluate search engine marketing performance using data and reporting tools.
Social Media Marketing Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the global social media landscape, including different platforms and their user demographics
- Understand the role of social media in broader digital marketing strategies
- Plan an organic social media campaign to drive engagement and build brand awareness
- Prepare paid social media advertising campaigns using platform tools, including audience targeting and budget allocation
- Track and analyse the performance of a social media campaign to ensure a strong return on investment
- Use campaign data to inform continuous growth and optimisation strategies
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Create and lead the digital content and search engine optimisation strategy
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Use analytical tools to evaluate performance of digital marketing activities
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Use analytics to improve the effectiveness of digital content
- Standard
Write and create content for multiple digital platforms
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 531 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Associate Search Engine Marketing Specialist
This role builds the foundations of paid search work. From here, the path can lead to a senior search engine marketing specialist role or an SEM lead position, taking on more strategy and technical depth.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by ATHE Ltd rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Content MarketingDigital Business, Marketing Metrics and AnalyticsSearch Engine MarketingSocial Media Marketing
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Pitch it Evaluate
“Content Marketing” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Create and lead the digital content and search engine optimisation strategy
- Use analytical tools to evaluate performance of digital marketing activities
- Use analytics to improve the effectiveness of digital content
- Write and create content for multiple digital platforms
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Content Marketing, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will understand the role of content marketing within a global digital business context. The unit covers planning and managing content marketing strategies, creating multi-channel digital content, and assessing performance using appropriate analytics.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for ATHE Level 4 Diploma in Digital Marketing
4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.
- Content Marketing
- Digital Business, Marketing Metrics and Analytics
- Search Engine Marketing
- Social Media Marketing
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