Student Recruitment Content Coordinator

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The opportunity

This role provides the opportunity to:

• Work in the content team to help produce and source effective multi-channel student marketing, recruitment and admissions content.
• Manage content projects from conception to completion ensuring outcomes are measured and reported against agreed aims.
• Research, collate, commission, write, edit and proofread copy and source images for the website, print publications and other student marketing and recruitment content, as required.
• Lead on course page governance, including updating our course page editorial guidance and other process documents as required and liaising with our Quality team and course teams to communicate and implement these changes.
• Manage the University-wide course page governance editorial team, including planning, chairing, presenting and circulating notes from meetings.
• Collaborate with College Web Managers, Admissions, the Digital team and the Quality team to optimise course pages and other webpages for student experience, ensuring all updates are compliant with CMA guidelines and in line with best practice for writing for the web.
• Edit content produced by other teams and departments, ensuring that it meets UAL content guidelines for voice, tone, and style.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and build strong working relationships with agencies and freelancers.
• Review and improve how we use content to address objectives.

About you

The post-holder shall have:

• A degree level qualification in marketing, communication, journalism or a relevant field.
• Excellent copywriting skills and the ability to explain complex information in simple language.
• Understanding of best practice when writing for the web, including Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) principles.
• Working knowledge of best practice in User Experience and Content Design.
• Working knowledge of CMA and QAA guidelines.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro (Desirable).
• Experience working in a content or editorial position that has required a knowledge of both traditional and digital content principles and techniques. 
• Experience of working in the higher education sector.
• Experience of developing and delivering multi-channel creative content, including asset gathering, design, film, photography and copywriting.
• Experience of managing creative marketing and communication projects.
• Knowledge of website Content Management Systems (CMS).
• Experience of working with external agencies and creative suppliers.
• Proven ability to work independently without direct supervision.
• Experience of using strong interpersonal skills to build internal and external networks and develop highly effective working relationships inside and outside the organisation.

If you have any queries you may contact our Recruitment Team via email on PSOstaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk.

 

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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