Internal Communications Officer

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The opportunity

The role of the Internal Communications Officer is pivotal within Internal and External Relations as an internal ‘roving reporter’ – being actively involved to research, facilitate, disseminate, and track new content for our staff and student audiences across the internal channels and LCF Stories (our blog). They work closely with the Internal Communications Manager and Internal Communities Manager to create the best content for LCF staff and students and assist with planning this editorially across internal channels.

The role includes writing, acquiring factual information for operational comms, scheduling weekly and monthly newsletters, creative content creation for digital screens and maintaining content management systems.

If you have any queries about this role, please contact the recruiting manager Jo Sait on j.sait@fashion.arts.ac.uk.

If you have any queries about the application process or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact the Resourcing Team at vacancies@fashion.arts.ac.uk.

About you

You will be a very proactive, hands-on person, able to find innovative ways to use content to engage with staff and students, and someone ready to be present in person to help reach different communities at LCF. You will be an excellent planner, able to work on many projects at once, with different members of the department in different formats such as writing and image work and for different channels. You will be a creative team player, contributing ideas in meetings, and a good listener, actively taking on board feedback to ensure our internal communications campaigns resonate with our staff and students.

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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