Communications Executive

The opportunity

The Communications Executive is part of a college team delivering a shared UAL communications and engagement plan that achieves outcomes such as attracting students to study with us, embedding social purpose across the University and improving staff and student experience.

The role will be primarily focused on writing; using an understanding of the College environment in order to create content covering College and UAL-wide achievements, projects and news, as well as policies and procedures. The post holder will support the delivery of internal messages, ensuring messaging is consistent across all channels, but will identify opportunities for external stories which are created in collaboration with staff focusing on different audience groups.

This role is part of an integrated structure to enable an audience-first approach, with teams working together on projects to maximise the audience benefit and understanding of strategic messaging.

The post-holder will work on cross-UAL project groups to help deliver engaging and effective communications campaigns. The role will work closely with Staff and Student Communications and Engagement teams to support engagement activities in the College and to help ensure student and staff feedback informs communications planning.

Your profile

You are a skilled communicator with strong writing and storytelling abilities, able to create engaging and accessible content for a range of audiences. You enjoy working with people, building relationships across teams and identifying opportunities to share stories that inform, inspire and celebrate the work of the College.

You are organised, proactive and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a busy environment. With excellent attention to detail, you can adapt content for different channels and audiences while ensuring communications are clear, accurate and aligned with organisational priorities.

You are committed to inclusive and accessible communications and understand the value of audience insight in shaping effective content. Most importantly, you are a collaborative team player who is motivated by helping staff and students feel informed, connected and engaged.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

As a University, we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.

We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That’s why we are proud to hold a Bronze Award from the Race Equality Charter (REC), are members of the Business Disability Forum and Employers for Carers, and maintain our status as a Disability Confident Scheme and Living Wage employer.

Application process

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

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