Marketing and Communications Officer (Campus Services)

University of Bath; Bath; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Employer contributory pension

Cycle to work scheme

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice

Staff discount at Team Bath gym

Discounted postgraduate tuition

LinkedIn Learning access

Other staff development opportunities

Job summary

University of Bath seeks a marketing professional who is organised, creative and proactive, with degree level or equivalent experience. You will drive marketing, communications or digital projects, with strong social media management and high-quality writing.

You will be data-literate, comfortable with content management systems, analytics tools and creative software to produce engaging materials. Collaboration with colleagues, students and external partners will be essential, alongside

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will be an organised, creative and proactive marketing professional, educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• bring significant hands-on experience in marketing, communications or digital roles, with a particular strength in managing social media channels and delivering varied projects in a fast-paced environment.
• be an exceptional communicator, confident in tailoring information for diverse audiences and producing high-quality written content with strong attention to detail.
• be digitally confident and be comfortable using a range of content management systems, analytics tools and creative software to produce engaging visual and digital materials.
• demonstrate strong information-handling skills, with the ability to analyse and interpret data to inform decision-making.
• Your interpersonal skills will enable you to build positive relationships with colleagues, students and external partners, while maintaining excellent customer service.

Job description

The ideal candidate will be an organised, creative and proactive marketing professional, educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent experience.

You will:

• bring significant hands-on experience in marketing, communications or digital roles, with a particular strength in managing social media channels and delivering varied projects in a fast-paced environment.
• be an exceptional communicator, confident in tailoring information for diverse audiences and producing high-quality written content with strong attention to detail.
• be digitally confident and be comfortable using a range of content management systems, analytics tools and creative software to produce engaging visual and digital materials.
• demonstrate strong information-handling skills, with the ability to analyse and interpret data to inform decision-making.

Your interpersonal skills will enable you to build positive relationships with colleagues, students and external partners, while maintaining excellent customer service.

Professionally, you will be

• a collaborative team player
• highly organised
• able to prioritise competing deadlines
• confident in using sound judgement to solve problems

You will contribute positively to team culture and continuous improvement, showing motivation, initiative and a commitment to ethical, sustainable working practices.

Experience within Higher Education, staff supervision or line management, and an understanding of sector-wide developments would be advantageous.

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 very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

What we can offer you

• 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
• A family-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.

Be Well at Bath

• 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

Find out more about being at your best at Bath.

Terms and Conditions of Employment

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.