Senior Marketing & Communications Officer

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About Us

The King's community is dedicated to the service of society. King's Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.

King's Careers & Employability (KC&E) facilitates excellent career management and employability services supporting our students and alumni, enabling them to develop effective career skills and build a platform for future success.

The Student Careers Engagement (SCE) Team in the department supports students at all levels across the institution, as well as alumni, to access information, advice, events, opportunities, and e-learning, to aid them in their career journeys. As a team, we work specifically to address the sector-wide and institutional factors and barriers that contribute to differences in progression amongst students from underrepresented backgrounds.

We are part of the Students & Education Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King's students and their education. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King's faculties to do so.

About the role

The Senior Marketing & Communications Officer will be responsible for all campaigns and content across Kings Careers & Employability's (KC&E) social media and websites, as well as for developing content that encourages and compels students to engage with KC&E services and activities. The role holder will be expected to work closely with all colleagues across the department to support in creating content for activities such as careers fairs, events, internships, workshops, awards programmes, and more. The role holder will also be expected to work closely with other members of the Student Careers Engagement team to ensure communications and attraction activities are done in line with priority needs and gaps identified and done with the student voice in mind.

Collaboration is key to this role, so the role holder will be expected to seek out partnerships across the directorate and the wider university and will collaborate with various internal partners on initiatives such as Welcome Week, Offer Holder, Graduation, and Open Day events.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to work closely with staff and students and who wish to utilise their skills and expertise in working with people, content creation and commuication to drive change.

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

This is currently a hybrid working role with both work from home and on campus. The role will be based in our department, on the Strand campus.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Experience of writing persuasive copy across various platforms and audiences, and the ability to summarise complex information for a range of specialist and generalist audiences.
2. Demonstrable commitment to social justice, equality, diversity, and inclusion; and an understanding of how the lived experience of historically underrepresented groups is affected by structural inequality.
3. Attention to detail and excellent time management skills to manage projects effectively, meet strict deadlines and handle competing tasks and priorities.
4. Experience of successfully planning, delivering, and evaluating communications campaigns to facilitate engagement.
5. Experience managing social media channels, creating engaging content and monitoring performance.
6. Ability to build strong relationships with a range of stakeholders at different levels to collaborate on shared objectives.
7. Ability to conduct research and analysis of data, reporting on trends and findings to inform day-to-day performance and operational activities.
8. Ability to work autonomously, and without direct supervision, show initiative and feel confident in pitching new ideas and taking ownership of projects.

Desirable criteria

1. Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Premiere Pro and Photoshop).
2. Audio and video editing skills

Full details of the role and the skills and experience required can be found in the attached job description which is provided on the next page.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers review your application, please take a look at our ' How we Recruit ' pages.

Interviews are due to be held on the 25th June 2024.

This role does not meet the requirements of the Home Office and therefore we are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who require the right to work in the UK.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early due to high number of applications.