Department: Marketing, Recruitment, Admissions and Communications
Full-time: 37 hours per week (1.0 FTE)
Salary: £31,637 to £34,132 per annum
About this role
We are looking for a dynamic and creative Social Media and Content Officer to enhance the University’s digital presence and engage our diverse audiences. This role will play a key part in shaping our digital strategy, creating compelling content, and driving engagement across multiple platforms.
You will be responsible for planning, designing, and posting content across the University’s social media channels (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn), developing written and video content for the website, coordinating digital student ambassadors, and the production of the University podcast. A significant part of your role will be crafting engaging advertising campaigns focused on student recruitment, including designing social media adverts.
About you
This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive and highly organized content creator who thrives in a fast-paced environment, understands corporate social media tone of voice, and is passionate about producing impactful digital content.
About the team
You will be joining a highly professional, committed and student focused academic community and work within a small, friendly and flexible administrative team, who are keen to contribute to our student experience while enjoying a good work life balance.
In addition to your salary we offer a competitive reward package with a range of staff benefits and discounts which include:
Defined Benefit pension schemes via the Local Government Pension Scheme. Your own monthly contributions are enhanced with employer contributions and a substantial automatic lump sum life cover scheme enhancement.
A paid closure period over the Christmas break is in addition to our generous holiday allowance with bank holidays too and an occupational sickness scheme.
There’s also an on-site gym at our Chichester campus; a cycle purchase salary sacrifice scheme; subsidised bus travel between our Bognor and Chichester campuses and Chichester town centre; 24/7 Employee Assistance programme to support our staff and extensive personal / professional training opportunities throughout the year.
Enquiries are welcomed by Kirsty Webber, Digital Content and Communications Manager via email at K.Webber@chi.ac.uk
Closing Date: Tuesday 18th March 2025 (midnight)
Interview Date: Tuesday 1st April 2025
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion at every level because we believe a diverse workforce benefits us all.
Please visit our website to view the full job profile and to apply, we look forward to hearing from you soon.
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