Marketing Assistant (placement) (CH11743)

Job title Marketing Assistant (placement)

Department Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

Salary Starting from £21,828, rising to £22,681 Appointments at Grade 3 will receive an additional pensionable supplement to ensure a minimum hourly pay equivalent to £12.00 in line with Voluntary Living Wage.

Grade Grade 3

Contract Type Full Time, Fixed Term

Placed on Wednesday 29 May 2024

Closing date Sunday 16 June 2024

Interview date To be confirmed

Reference CH11743

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This job is only available to current students at the University of Bath who are studying within the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies or Department of Psychology.

We are seeking a creative and proactive Marketing Assistant (placement student) to support our marketing activities in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences on a 9-month fixed term basis.

Working with our Faculty Marketing team, you'll support a range of marketing activities, as well as creating promotional content for both on and offline use. Bringing your own experiences as a student into the team, you'll help to raise the profile of the Faculty and promote our courses to UK and international students.

About the role

You'll help to support the production of marketing campaign materials and support the production of social media and digital content. Using your creative skills you will be involved in video and photography creation and editing. You will also gain experience in supporting and delivering events both in-person and virtual.

You will contribute to competitor monitoring and data analysis feeding into the team's planning and activities.

This opportunity will allow you to:

Apply your knowledge and experience of the University of Bath to developing innovative marketing solutions

Play a key role in delivering the Faculty's student marketing and recruitment objectives

Be part of a creative and collaborative team

Explore innovative marketing solutions and how they can be applied in a Higher Education setting.

This role is offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) fixed term basis with an expected end date of 30/05/2025.

About you

You will have a keen interest in pursing a career in marketing or content production and have the following attributes, skills and experience:

Experience in using digital and online marketing channels (including social media).

Ability to create engaging content for social media platforms.

A high level of literacy and copywriting skills with excellent attention to detail.

Experience navigating IT, database and presentation software.

Strong information management skills and able to analyse and present complex data

Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to work collaboratively in a team and with different stakeholders.

Capacity to manage and prioritise workload and work on own initiative.

Strong work ethic, flexible and able to develop new skills quickly.

What we can offer you:

a very generous employer contributory pension scheme

generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance

we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements

an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce

a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities

a number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details will be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.