Communications Officer (Students)

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

Posted: 18 March 2024. Deadline: 07 April 2024.

Enterprise unit: College of Arts & Humanities. Division: Arts & Humanities College 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 employees and college students, is essential.   

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

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

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

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

This can be a dynamic and different place – enjoying a key position in supporting a group of scholars to get the perfect out of their time at King’s. 

The job would swimsuit somebody who has a wonderful, demonstrable eye for a narrative, savvy with social media, and has a confirmed monitor document of reaching audiences in a wide range of methods – by means of written and multimedia, together with video, net options and bodily media.  

A big 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 lined by the position, and the necessity to work with a wide range of stakeholders, the profitable candidate will have to be comfy engaged on campus (on the Strand, London) recurrently in term-time and prepared to pitch in with a wide range of duties when wanted. 

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

Key obligations

• Produce written and media-rich content material that communicates essential info for our college students; adapting it to swimsuit a variety of channels akin to the web site, newsletters and social media.
• Create mini-campaigns centred round key initiatives on the college (akin to Welcome Week) in addition to in assist of nationwide/worldwide consciousness days/months.
• Handle pupil going through social media channels and advising colleagues on greatest apply on scheduling, themes, reporting and analytics.
• Present assist for the Scholar Expertise Crew and their aims, particularly round occasion promotion and key pupil engagement campaigns
• Assist and handle supply of routine inside communications by means of completely different channels, together with producing electronic 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 College Communications Crew and taking up further duties the place wanted.
• Sustaining, and creating routine content material akin to information, occasions and different details about the College and making certain this meets AAA accessibility requirements.
• Collaborating with Scholar Content material suppliers and College Scholar Content material groups
• Construct consciousness and rapport with comms group among the many College group in order maximise alternatives and concepts for content material and media engagement.

*The above checklist of obligations is probably not exhaustive, and the publish holder can be required to undertake such duties and obligations as might moderately be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the publish. *

Expertise, Data and Expertise

Important standards

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

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

Confirmed monitor document of speaking creatively by means of 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

Capability to provide multimedia – together with video, audio and infographics.

Fascinating standards

Expertise in pupil communications in a Greater Schooling setting