Digital Content Editor

Responsibilities

• Digital marketing and campaigns
• Digital transformation: design thinking, digital experience, solution development, service design
• Innovation and emerging technologies
• Brand and reputation management
• Student recruitment
• Business and enterprise
• Research impact
• Create and edit effective content to:
• support business goals and meet user needs
• be optimised for search engines and mobile devices

Requirements

• Practical experience in a similar role.
• Excellent copywriting skills and experience of writing for the web, including the ability to author effective micro-content, write for mobile and practise search engine optimisation techniques
• Proof reading skills and ability to sub-edit copy into house style
• Significant experience of the Adobe Creative Suite and other visual design tools
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of web usability, readability, accessibility and content delivery using best practice
• Confidence in using web content management systems and digital publishing platforms
• Significant experience of using digital analytics tools to report on website performance and of using data to make recommendations for improvement
• Ability to effectively communicate our brand standards through content design
• Outstanding organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at same time
• Able to identify and manage internal and external stakeholders, building relationships whilst meeting user needs. You will understand how to work with stakeholders and contribute to building relationship, using evidence to explain decisions made

Preferred

• Knowledge of the Higher Education sector

Benefits

• Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits . We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.