Hide div on click with javascript/jquery

I am trying to hide a div using on click, I got some code from http://codepen.io/senff/pen/fqmFo but I am uncertain if I am using it correctly.

I have this:

<script>// <![CDATA[
jQuery(document).ready(function(c) {
	$('.alert-close').on('click', function(c){
		$(this).parent().fadeOut('slow', function(c){
		});
	});
});

// ]]></script>

in the footer and it is supposed to use the div “alert-close” to close the parent div which is a div containing a banner ad

I just need a simple way to get this script into the footer where the banner ad resides

Any ideas? Is there a simple way to drop it into the footer that doesn’t involve registering scripts and messing around in functions.php?

Thanks in advance