Communications Coordinator (The SU)

Penryn, Cornwall, UK

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelPermanent

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own omni-channel student communications and turn audience insights into reader-relevant stories with clear impact metrics.

  • Collaborate with Marketing and Insights to set channel plans and measure impact.
  • Write audience-specific messages and test storytelling to prove the reader value.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • As the Communications Coordinator, you will be responsible for developing communications to effectively connect with our students, university staff, local businesses, and other stakeholders.
  • You will work with the Marketing and Insights Coordinator to develop an omni-channel approach to communications, ensuring that key messages reach students and advocates of the students’ union.
  • The ideal candidate will be an excellent writer who understands how to create audience-specific communications.
  • You are a storyteller who is constantly interrogating your work to understand the “so what” that makes the story relevant for your reader.
  • You will be enthusiastic to develop approaches and plans in collaboration with students and SU staff and confident working independently to deliver those plans.
  • You are comfortable with feedback, actively seeking opportunities to improve your work and ways to measure those improvements.
  • You are organised and set clear deadlines for yourself and others.

Requirements

  • This post is a permanent position working on a 1.0 contract, which is 35 hours per week.
  • Some evening and weekend working is required.
  • For this role the successful candidate will be required to work across Penryn, Falmouth, and Truro campuses for contracted hours due to the collaborative and student-facing nature of the role.
  • Excellent writer who understands how to create audience-specific communications.
  • A storyteller who is constantly interrogating your work to understand the “so what” that makes the story relevant for your reader.
  • Enthusiastic to develop approaches and plans in collaboration with students and SU staff and confident working independently to deliver those plans.
  • Comfortable with feedback, actively seeking opportunities to improve your work and ways to measure those improvements.
  • Organised and set clear deadlines for yourself and others.