Digital Sport Marketing Assistant

About the vacancy:

From scheduling and planning, to creating content and designing, this exciting new role provides an opportunity to share your passion for sport and story-telling. You’ll deliver profile-raising content through UWE Bristol Sport’s social media and other digital channels to drive engagement in and awareness of student sport, physical activity and wellbeing at UWE Bristol.

Your focus will be to support the Performance Sport and sport development pathways, building a vibrant #TeamUWEBristol community while working with Sport Marketing Officer to ensure that business as usual combines with innovative campaigns and content delivery across the different areas of the sport pathway at UWE Bristol.

UWE Bristol Sport aims to provide every student with the opportunity to play sport or take part in healthy activity. Alongside this we strive to drive success through our Performance Sport Programme and encourage staff and the wider community to access facilities and participate in sporting opportunities.

About you:

With your curious nature and experience in creating engaging digital and social media content, you’ll communicate effectively with core audiences to build a dynamic and diverse #TeamUWEBristol community.

You can demonstrate creative flair in copy-writing and design, and show a passion for sport, wellbeing and exercise.

You’ll be able to prioritise your own workload and maintain high standards of accuracy to ensure deadlines are met and be an excellent communicator in order to build relationships across relevant university departments and with external agencies.

You’ll need an awareness of implementing brand guidelines and have some previous experience in a marketing or social media role.

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed – £300m has been invested in new state-of-the-art learning spaces and accommodation while we continue to develop incredible new facilities  to enhance our offer even further.

Frenchay campus has excellent transport links ; as well as being located near the motorway network we are within walking distance of two train stations , our bus terminus connects us to the local bus and metrobus network and we also have a range of cycling and changing facilities.

Why UWE Bristol?

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 32,000 students, 250,000 alumni and 4,000 staff from across the globe. We are both globally connected and regionally embedded, with a strong network of employer and partner connections.

We have a lot to be proud of at UWE, our achievements  include scoring above sector average for student satisfaction, we are ranked 36th in The Guardian Best UK Universities 2022 and 39th in the latest Times Higher Education 'Table of Tables '.

We are an ambitious and values led  university. We're focused on solving future global challenges through outstanding learning, world-leading research and a culture of enterprise and we are looking for people who share our core values to help us achieve those aims. 

With inclusivity as a core value, UWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community . We support and celebrate the diversity of our staff and students as a key driver for innovation and success, promoting pathways and achievements to inspire and generate confidence and ambition.

In addition to progressive pay rates, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including:

• a generous holiday allowance of 25 days
• up to 12.5 bank holiday/closure days per year
• hybrid working
• excellent defined benefit pension schemes
• access to employee assistance programme
• 1st month free to our Centre for Sport facilities for all new starters
• family friendly policies and wellbeing initiatives
• onsite nursery at our Frenchay Campus.
• Retail savings via the Wider Wallet scheme
• option to participate in the cycle to work scheme

We also boast an excellent in-house Learning & Development team who provide a wide variety of in-house training courses and development programmes and our Academic Practice Directorate supports our academic colleagues to ensure the highest in professional teaching standards.

Add your individuality to ours

Proud to be part of a vibrant, multicultural city that celebrates diversity, we’re always on the lookout for talented people from all backgrounds to join us. Our people are our strength, and diversity enhances our creativity and leads to better decision-making and problem-solving. Bring your talent and ambition to our growing staff community of over 4,000 individuals and find yourself in a stimulating and supportive environment where you’ll thrive. Add your individuality to ours to help set us apart.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Multiple Heritage or Other Minority Ethnic and female candidates as we are currently under-represented in these areas within UWE Bristol however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.

Further information:

If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Alex Isaac on 0117 328 6200 or email: [email protected] .

This is a full-time, permanent post.

Interviews are scheduled to take place on 05 August 2022. 

This post requires basic DBS clearance.

This post is available on a job share basis for applicants wishing to work part time.

UWE Bristol is a campus-based University and it is important for our success and the delivery of an outstanding experience for our students that our campuses are dynamic and vibrant places to learn and spend time. This role is therefore campus based with the opportunity for remote working.

The University’s normal practice is that new appointments will be made at the starting point of the grade.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. As we are unable to sponsor anyone requiring a visa for this role candidates must therefore be able to provide their own right to work in the UK.

Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to provide your right to work documents at your interview. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable.

Please note that UWE does not cover any visa or health surcharge costs.

Please note that the recruitment application system will be unavailable from Friday, 08 July 2022 until the morning of Monday, 11 July 2022 due to routine maintenance.