(Full-Time, Permanent)
Royal Holloway’s Marketing team is responsible for motivating and engaging target external audiences by identifying, bringing to life and effectively expressing Royal Holloway’s stories through a variety of channels in the most inspiring, impactful and relevant way. The Digital Communications Officer (Social Media) is responsible for planning, creating and sourcing social media channel content; ensuring it is engaging, impactful and targeted at our key audiences, with direction from the Digital Marketing Manager (Social Media).
As part of the Digital team, you’ll play an active role in content creation and channel management of the University’s main social media accounts on a day-to-day basis. You’ll be responsible for taking an overview of upcoming activity and opportunities, working in collaboration with colleagues across the organisation, and for planning, scheduling and posting messages that promote the reputation of Royal Holloway and support student recruitment. You’ll be responding to queries; creating engaging digital content that is relevant to target audiences in support of both strategic and tactical objectives; and monitoring and reporting on the success of this content.
To succeed, you will need to be a dynamic individual with excellent communication and collaborative skills and both a creative and analytical mindset. You’ll have a proven track record of working with social media in a professional environment and understand trends in both the digital landscape and audience behaviour. If you’re energetic, can handle multiple projects and enjoy working in a team, we’d like to hear from you.
In return we offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:
Generous annual leave entitlement
Training and Development opportunities
Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution
Various schemes including Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans and help with the cost of Eyesight testing
Free parking
The post is based in Egham, Surrey London where the University is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London.
For queries on the application process, the Human Resources Department can be contacted by email at: recruitment@rhul.ac.uk
Please quote the reference: 0125-015
Closing Date: 23:59, 31 January 2025
Interview Date: 5 March 2025
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