Communications Content Coordinator

onlyFE; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement

Career development

Pension contributions

Staff lounge meals

Job summary

City College Plymouth is seeking a creative storyteller to join its Marketing & Student Recruitment team. You will help bring the College to life through engaging stories, photography, video and social media, showcasing students, staff and partnerships to inspire future students and strengthen the College's reputation.

Excellent writing skills and experience producing digital content are required. The role is full-time and on-site within City College Plymouth, with opportunities for career

Qualifications

• Adapt content to different audiences and platforms.
• Resolve content challenges in line with College guidelines.
• Learn from feedback to improve digital communications.
• Maintain high standards under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Produce engaging stories across photography, video and social media.
• Showcase student and staff achievements to strengthen reputation across the city and beyond.

Skills

Storytelling

Content creation

Writing

Digital content

Job description

Full Time | Permanent | £30,236 Per Annum

Winner of the Best Place to Work at the Tech South West Awards 2025, City College Plymouth offers a culture the College is proud of. Our core values of Respect, Ownership and Integrity help create an environment that supports a passion for teaching and learning. These values guide our work as we enrich our community through knowledge, experience and skills so every student can achieve their best.

As one of the country’s largest providers of quality education and training, City College Plymouth is entering a period of transition to enable us to propel education into the future. We take pride in offering a learning environment and organisational culture that contribute positively to the health, wellbeing and sustainability of our community and enable all our students and staff to achieve their full potential.

The Role

Are you a creative storyteller with a passion for digital content? Join City College Plymouth's Marketing & Student Recruitment team and help bring our College to life through engaging stories, photography, video and social media. You’ll showcase our students, staff, achievements and employer partnerships, creating content that celebrates success, inspires future students and strengthens our reputation across the city and beyond. If you have excellent writing skills, a creative eye and experience producing engaging digital content, we’d love to hear from you. Turn stories into opportunities. Help us show what’s possible at City College Plymouth.

What Will You Bring To The Role

• Adapting: Ability to respond flexibly to changing priorities, deadlines and College activities, adapting digital content to suit different audiences, platforms and communication needs.
• Problem solving: Ability to identify and resolve content-related challenges, apply College guidelines and policies, and find creative solutions to communicate messages effectively and appropriately.
• Learning: Ability to learn from colleagues, students, employers and audience feedback, using these insights to develop engaging content and improve digital communications.
• Persistence: Ability to remain composed when faced with competing deadlines or unexpected challenges, maintaining high standards and making sustained efforts to deliver quality content on time.

Benefits

City College Plymouth will offer you;

• Holiday: 29 days plus bank holidays and College Closure over Christmas.
• Career development opportunities.
• Generous contributions towards your pension.
• Free tea, coffee and lunch in our dedicated staff lounge.

How We Recruit

We aim to recruit based on potential, not experience. We are interested in seeing your behaviours in action and how they will help you become successful at City College Plymouth, giving everyone the opportunity to show their potential, regardless of background or experience.

After completing our online application form, you will be asked to complete an online assessment within a few days of this vacancy closing. This assessment asks you no questions at all. Instead, it observes your behaviour and natural strengths in action, with a series of engaging, intuitive tasks. You will receive a report outlining your behaviours once you have completed the assessment, regardless of whether you progress to the next stage or not, providing you with some feedback.

The College welcomes applications from service leavers and the Armed Forces community, and supports those service leavers who are Reservists in any of the Armed Forces.

The College reserves the right to close this advertisement early if sufficient applications have been received.