Social Media Coordinator

Post Title: Social Media Coordinator

SBU/Department:School of Creative Arts

FTE: 1 fte (working 37 hours per week)

Duration of Contract: Fixed Term (1 Year)

Salary: UH4 £24,248pa to £25,138pa with potential to progress to £27,181pa by annual increments on achieving designated skills and experience

Annual Leave: 25 days plus standard public holidays and an additional 4 days including the closure of our office between Christmas and New Year

Location: College Lane Campus, Hatfield

School of Creative Arts is a future thinking and enriching School of Study. We believe in the power of Transforming Lives; for our students as well as our employees. That’s why we do our best to build strong and diverse communities; providing the best opportunities for the people in our business to develop and grow.
We’re looking for a Social Media Coordinator to help us propel the School into a new era of success. You’ll work alongside talented and experienced colleagues to ensure the delivery of highly creative social-first marketing communications. You’ll live and breathe ideas, organisation, self-motivation and teamwork and will be as comfortable with managing calendars and teams of student Content Creators as you will be crafting and delivering creative campaigns.

Main duties and responsibilities

As Social Media Coordinator in the School of Creative Arts, you will be responsible for concepting and creating social campaigns for the School social media channels including Instagram, Tik Tok, X, Facebook and Youtube. You’ll manage the channels, whilst also coordinating a team of student Content Creators to produce and deliver content within set parameters as well as building and managing relationships with stakeholders internally and externally.

You’ll be confident at writing copy, as well as sourcing and editing content ready for publication online, and will need to stay up-to-date with social and cultural trends and industry best practice. You’ll be required to raise the profile of the School by increasing social media engagement with the student community, and develop and implement strategies to effectively engage with current students via social media channels, whilst tracking, analysing and reporting on performance on a regular basis.

Skillsand experience

We’re looking for a social-first creative thinker with a proven record of creating engaging and relevant social media content, ideally for a company or brand. You’ll be a confident writer, with the ability to produce high quality visual and written content to guidelines. You’ll have excellent video, photography and editing skills, as well as competency in MS Office and image editing apps.

You’ll need to be well organised and have attention to detail under pressure, as well as having a flexible attitude to working hours and availability to attend weekend and evening activities as required (equivalent time off in lieu is given for working non-standard hours). You’ll be a good communicator with a knack for building positives relationships with colleagues.

Qualifications required

Will Hold a minimum of five GCSEs at grade C/4 or above including Maths and English, or proven experience. It would be desirable for the chosen applicant to hold a degree or proven experience in a relevant field, i.e media, production, journalism, marketing, communications, public relations, graphic design or fashion communications.

Please view the job description and person specification for a full list of the duties and essential criteria.Please attach a personal statement showing clearly how your skills and experience match the Person Specification.

We regret that we are unable to offer UKVI sponsorship for this post; applicants will either hold UK Right to Work, or demonstrate access to UK Right to Work, before an offer is made.

We are a committed equal opportunities employer and we particularly encourage applications from women and BAME candidates to reflect our diverse student cohort and staff under-representation where it exists.

Contact Details/Informal Enquiries: Rich Mitchell, [email protected]

Closing Date: 06 June 2024

Interview Date: 11 June 2024

Reference Number: 059356

Date advert placed: 15 May 2024

Our vision is to transform lives: UH is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and building a diverse community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of their protected characteristics, and recognise there are different ways applicants may achieve the criteria in this document. We offer a range of employee benefits including generous annual leave, flexible location opportunities within the UK, discounted Sports Village memberships and free Active Staff sessions, personal and professional development and family-friendly policies. #GoHerts