Brighton 2025 Student Communications and Engagement Officer (MK5155-21-185)

We are looking for a Student Communications and Engagement Officer to help deliver a key strand of the University’s Brighton 2025 strategy - ‘Putting Students at the Heart’.

You will use your excellent creative and editorial skills to produce clear and engaging communications that target the key issues at the forefront of our students’ minds, throughout their university journey.
Working directly with students and key stakeholders you will use your strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships to help inform strategic decision making. Using insight about our students, you will deliver easily digestible updates about often-complex topics in the right formats and language for our students, and ultimately improve their experience at the University of Brighton.

Our ideal person should:

Have experience of working with students (or similar diverse audiences)Have experience of working directly with senior colleagues in a ‘trusted advisor’ capacityBe able to develop and implement communication plansHave effective writing and editorial ability that can translate on paper, screen and face to face communicationsHave a good understanding of communication channels and methods including social mediaBe able to work at pace, creating good quality content, plans, and ideas to a high standard

 This is a full-time fixed term post for 4 years in line with the completion of our Brighton 2025 strategy. Job-sharers are welcome to apply.

Closing Date: 05 Jul 2021
Category: Administrative/Clerical/Technical