Communications Officer (Students)

Job id: 086168. Wage: £37,332 – £42,099 inclusive of London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 18 March 2024. Time limit: 07 April 2024.

Enterprise unit: School of Arts & Humanities. Division: Arts & Humanities School Workplace.

Contact particulars:Daniel O’Donnell. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Skilled & Assist Providers.

Job Description

King’s Faculty London is among the world’s high universities. With an formidable imaginative and prescient, efficient communications with key audiences, together with with our workers and college students, is essential.   

We’re looking for a Communications Officer to hitch us within the School of Arts & Humanities. 

As a part of a rising communications crew inside the school, you’ll work with colleagues to develop nice tales to tell and interact with our pupil group inside the School and its departments.   

You’ll inform these tales by digital and social media, compelling campaigns, occasion assist and actions to advertise a completely supported and engaged pupil physique.  

Together with this, you may be performing as some extent of counsel and recommendation for communications for workers, selling tutorial analysis and delivering pupil information.  

It is a dynamic and diverse place – taking part in a key function in supporting a group of scholars to get the very best out of their time at King’s. 

The job would go well with somebody who has a superb, demonstrable eye for a narrative, savvy with social media, and has a confirmed observe report of reaching audiences in a wide range of methods – by written and multimedia, together with video, internet options and bodily media.  

A major curiosity within the energy of arts and humanities in society is a should, together with the flexibility to show your hand to digital, social media and design parts.  

Given the vary of areas coated by the function, and the necessity to work with a wide range of stakeholders, the profitable candidate will must be snug engaged on campus (on the Strand, London) recurrently in term-time and keen to pitch in with a wide range of duties when wanted. 

The posts will likely be supplied on an a everlasting, full-time foundation.

Key tasks

• Produce written and media-rich content material that communicates essential data for our college students; adapting it to go well with a spread of channels corresponding to the web site, newsletters and social media.
• Create mini-campaigns centred round key initiatives on the college (corresponding to Welcome Week) in addition to in assist of nationwide/worldwide consciousness days/months.
• Handle pupil dealing with social media channels and advising colleagues on finest follow on scheduling, themes, reporting and analytics.
• Present assist for the Scholar Expertise Crew and their targets, specifically round occasion promotion and key pupil engagement campaigns
• Assist and handle supply of routine inner communications by totally different channels, together with producing e-mail newsletters; on-line conferences and boards; and contributing to broader networks and dealing teams the place communications experience will add worth and perception.
• Kind a part of the core School Communications Crew and taking over further duties the place wanted.
• Sustaining, and creating routine content material corresponding to information, occasions and different details about the School and guaranteeing this meets AAA accessibility requirements.
• Collaborating with Scholar Content material suppliers and College Scholar Content material groups
• Construct consciousness and rapport with comms crew among the many School group in order maximise alternatives and concepts for content material and media engagement.

*The above checklist of tasks might not be exhaustive, and the put up holder will likely be required to undertake such duties and tasks as could moderately be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the put up. *

Expertise, Data and Expertise

Important standards

Glorious English communication abilities, each written and oral with a confirmed potential to adapt fashion for a wide range of channels and audiences.

Good working data and expertise of a broad vary of communications actions (web sites, social media, media, publications).

Confirmed observe report of speaking creatively by social media

Demonstrable expertise in compiling newsletters with a eager eye for content material and analytics.

Glorious IT & Design abilities, together with MS Workplace, Canva or Adobe CC

Capacity to supply multimedia – together with video, audio and infographics.

Fascinating standards

Expertise in pupil communications in a Greater Training setting