Social Media Assistant (KW12365)

University of Bath
January 23, 2025
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Job title Social Media Assistant

Department School of Management

Salary Starting from £26,038, rising to £29,659

Grade Grade 5

Contract Type Part Time, Open Ended

Placed on Thursday 09 January 2025

Closing date Thursday 23 January 2025

Interview date Tuesday 04 February 2025

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Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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About the role

We're looking for a Social Media Assistant to join our School of Management Marketing Team. You'll work with our Social Media Manager to plan, deliver and evaluate high-quality social media communications. You'll focus on sourcing, commissioning, curating and planning social media content for our channels:

  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Using our brand and tone of voice, and your expertise in social media, you'll build on our social media strategy to help us:

  • improve our external reputation, a key part of the School's strategy
  • drive user engagement and build a community of followers
  • keep up with the latest trends in social media
  • build interest as we launch new courses and explore new international recruitment markets.
  • We're a supportive and collaborative team, with a culture of experimentation and personal development. You'll have experience producing, curating and managing content for social media platforms.

    You will also have:

  • a good first degree or relevant equivalent qualifications
  • experience of successful social media planning, implementation and evaluation
  • experience creating social media content including video, graphics and copy
  • expertise in creating analytics reports to measure success
  • excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience using software and tools for professional social media management like Sprout Social and Canva would be an advantage.

    To really succeed in this role, you'll need to have amazing people skills and be able to work well with academics, professional staff, students and alumni. You'll also need to bring innovative ideas that can help us compete for the attention of the best potential students.

    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 a 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 the university. 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.

    Further details:
  • Job Description & Person Specification

  • Terms of Employment

  • 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 such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.

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