Content Producer (Research)

Responsibilities

• write, design, edit and distribute content across York’s owned channels, ensuring it is informative, accurate and tailored to different audiences.
• use your writing, editing, web design and digital communication skills to ensure clarity and consistency in everything you produce.
• Working closely with other teams within Communications, you will support our academic departments and research entities to shape and develop content, highlighting advances in our research, successful grants and academic appointments.
• support the University’s social media team by helping adapt research content for York’s central social media channels.
• work with departments and research entities to refresh and redesign existing web pages to ensure the University’s research strengths are communicated clearly and accurately.

Requirements

• A compelling and creative digital communicator, with proven experience of delivering and evaluating multi-channel content that has clear objectives.
• Ability to convey and present complex information in a responsible, accurate and accessible way, for a range of different audiences.
• A strong writer, able to create content for web and print, with excellent proofreading skills.
• Demonstrable understanding of the practices of web accessibility for content creation.
• Experience of using website content management systems and of project managing web content development or redevelopment projects.
• Ability to select, edit and optimise appropriate imagery to support and enhance research communications.
• Experience of producing, editing or commissioning video/audio content for web and other digital channels including social media.
• Good understanding of the role of effective communications and management of reputation in the research funding environment.
• Experience of supporting others to create high quality research communications and sharing best practice in communications and stakeholder engagement.