Communications and Events Officer

Bath; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Pension schemes

Cycle to work scheme

EV salary sacrifice

Staff gym discount

Professional development opportunities

Discounts at local venues

Wellbeing resources

Job summary

The University of Bath is looking for a creative Communications and Events Officer to promote wellbeing, belonging and support services to its student community. Based in Student Support, you will develop campaigns and content to help students access information and engage with services.

You will plan and deliver wellbeing events, manage digital channels, oversee web content, and work with colleagues across Student Support to showcase services.

Qualifications

• Experience creating engaging digital content and communications.
• Creative, proactive and full of ideas.
• Can turn complex information into clear and engaging messages.
• Experience coordinating events, campaigns or projects.
• Enjoys working collaboratively and building relationships with others.
• Passionate about helping students thrive.

Responsibilities

• Creating campaigns, content and communications to help students engage with our services and build their own wellbeing.
• Developing content across websites, newsletters, social media, digital screens and other communication channels.
• Overseeing our web presence, updating web content and ensuring pages are accurate and clear, helping students access information and self-help support independently.
• Using digital and social media channels to create and share content that promotes student wellbeing and communicates key messages.
• Planning and delivering engaging wellbeing events, campaigns and activities throughout the academic year.
• Coordinating our wellbeing weeks, events, and workshops to help build student wellbeing.
• Working closely with colleagues across Student Support to showcase services and ensure students know where and how to access help.

Skills

Digital content

Campaign management

Social media

Web content

Communications

Collaboration

Job description

Job title Communications and Events Officer

Department Student Support and Safeguarding

Salary Starting from £31,236, rising to £37,694pro rata

Do you have a passion for creating communications and content that inspires people to take action? Are you equally comfortable developing campaigns, creating social media content and bringing events to life?

This is a chance to make a real difference to student lives at the University of Bath.

About the role

We're looking for a creative Communications and Events Officer to help us promote wellbeing, belonging and support services across our student community. Based within Student Support you will help ensure students know how to access support, develop their wellbeing and make the most of their university experience.

You will be responsible for:

• creating campaigns, content and communications to help students engage with our services and build their own wellbeing.
• developing content across websites, newsletters, social media, digital screens and other communication channels.
• overseeing our web presence, updating web content and ensuring our pages are accurate and clear, helping students access information and self-help support independently.
• using digital and social media channels to create and share content that promotes student wellbeing and communicates key messages.
• planning and delivering engaging wellbeing events, campaigns and activities throughout the academic year.
• coordinating our wellbeing weeks, events, and workshops to help build student wellbeing.
• working closely with colleagues across Student Support to showcase services and ensure students know where and how to access help.

Your impact won’t end there. Supporting the wider team, you will welcome new students to the University and support their transition to help them feel like they belong in Bath.

This is a creative and varied role where no two days will be the same. One day you might be updating webpages or developing content for our MyBath app . The next, you could be capturing content at a student dog walk, planning a wellbeing week or developing messaging for a University-wide campaign such as NeverOK .

About you

We're looking for someone who:

• has experience creating engaging digital content and communications.
• is creative, proactive and full of ideas.
• can turn complex information into clear and engaging messages.
• has experience coordinating events, campaigns or projects.
• enjoys working collaboratively and building relationships with others.
• is passionate about helping students thrive.

Further information

This is a part-time role working 32.85 hours per week (0.9 fte) with the opportunity for some hybrid working.

The role may occasionally include evening and weekend work, particularly during September and October when we welcome new students.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
• Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Right to Work in the UK:We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.

Anonymous shortlisting:We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.