Responsibilities

• Meet with colleagues across Professional Services Departments to ascertain their Marketing and Communications needs, and establish ways of working.
• Ensure effective links between Marketing, Recruitment and Communications and professional services, ensuring professional service needs are effectively planned and managed through the marketing and communications teams.
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships across professional services and teams throughout the Marketing, Recruitment and Communications Directorate.
• Develop and maintain a good understanding of professional services priorities in order to implement effective plans and meet targets.
• Provide day-to-day links between the Marketing, Recruitment and Communications Department and professional service colleagues, advising on opportunities and challenges to drive effective communications activity.
• Work with the Head of Marketing Business Partners to monitor progress and achievement against key performance indicators and overall plans, identifying areas of concern in order to take action and ensure that objectives and impact are delivered.
• Support the organisation and delivery of open days and related recruitment events, working to ensure that professional service colleagues are engaged and supported in order to represent the University to prospective students as positively as possible.
• Contribute to the work of the Marketing Business Partner team, including working with academic Schools if required.

Requirements

• A degree or equivalent.
• Experience in a marketing and communications role.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• A self-managing work style with the ability to prioritise own work and deliver to deadline.
• Good IT skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office applications. Ability to work creatively with spreadsheets and databases.

Preferred

• A part professional qualification such as stage one of the Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing accredited by the CIM would be advantageous.
• Evidence of commitment to ongoing professional development

Benefits

• Work–life balance – Generous leave and hybrid working (role dependent).
• Career development – Opportunities to grow, develop and progress your career.
• Reward and wellbeing – Competitive pay, pension, a health cash plan, wellbeing support and a wide range of staff benefits.
• Inclusive culture – A supportive, diverse environment where everyone belongs.