Social Media Officer (China) (KW12310)

Job title Social Media Officer (China)

Department Marketing, Communications and External Affairs

Salary Starting from £30,505, rising to £36,924

Grade Grade 6

Contract Type Full Time, Fixed Term

Placed on Tuesday 10 December 2024

Closing date Sunday 12 January 2025

Interview date To be confirmed

Reference KW12310

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We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced communications professional to join our team temporarily to cover a period of maternity leave. You will play a key role in enhancing our activity on the University's central social media channels in China.

In collaboration with colleagues from the Communications, Marketing, and Recruitment teams, you will be responsible for engaging with and expanding the University's community across our main social media platforms in China, while also contributing to the institution's broader social media efforts. This role involves creating, repurposing, and translating content to align with the needs of our community, planning and executing campaigns, and evaluating the success of your activities.

Key skills and experience

The successful candidate must have proven skills/experience of:

You will be able to communicate effectively and confidently to develop good working relationships. You should have excellent organisational skills, and be able to successfully manage your workload, as well as stakeholder expectations.

You'll be open to new communications and marketing developments and have the confidence to offer insights and to suggest and generate new ideas to ensure we offer relevant and engaging content to our audiences.

This post is fixed-term until March 2026 or the early return of the postholder.

For an information chat about this role, feel free to email Tom Mason, Head of Strategic Communications (Campaigns and Social Media), at [email protected].

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.

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.