Student Web Content Manager

King's College London; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

King's College London seeks a Student Web Content Manager for a full-time maternity cover role. The successful candidate will enhance the online presence and user experience by effectively managing the university's website and collaborating with various departments to ensure effective communication with prospective students. The role requires a degree or significant experience in web content management, ideally within higher education.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in web content management, preferably in higher education.
• Strong understanding of SEO and web accessibility standards.
• Experience leading and motivating teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the university's website and content.
• Gather content and oversee the content creation process.
• Coordinate delivery of engaging and accurate content for prospective students.

Skills

Web Content Management

SEO Best Practices

Team Leadership

Data Analysis

Collaboration

Project Management

Education

Educated to degree level

Tools

Content Management Systems (CMS)

Web Analytics Tools

Job description

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About us

King's College London is the leading destination for ambitious students from across the world because of our academic excellence, reputation and research impact. Our focus is ensuring the best possible student experience, from the beginning of their journey with us as prospective students through to enrolment so that our students can thrive in our diverse and inclusive community in central London.

The Global Student Recruitment and Admissions directorate delivers marketing, student recruitment and admissions services in partnership with Faculties, creating strategies to attract growing numbers of students from across global markets, as well as from the UK.

As a directorate we are responsible for the delivery of student recruitment targets, ensuring cohesive recruitment strategies and planning from lead generations and attraction, admissions, through to conversion and enrolment.

About the role

The Student Marketing and Communications team are responsible for ensuring high-quality and impactful communications with prospective students to support the achievement of the university's student recruitment targets. The Student Web Content Manager plays a key role in enhancing the university's online presence and user experience by effectively managing and maintaining the university's website and content. The role will work closely with various departments and colleagues to gather content, oversee the content creation process, and ensuring that the website aligns to the university's branding and communication strategies. The role will manage a team of content officers and coordinate the delivery of effective delivery of engaging, accurate and up-to-date content for communication with prospective students.

This is a full time fixed-term maternity cover opportunity until 30/01/26.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Educated to degree level and/or significant experience in web content management, preferably in higher education.
2. Proficiency in content management systems (CMS) and web analytics tools.
3. Strong understanding of SEO best practices and web accessibility standards.
4. Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills with the ability to build, maintain and manage stakeholder relationships.
5. Ability to analyse and interpret data to make informed decisions/recommendations, produce reports and monitor progress.
6. Ability to lead, motivate and develop a team
7. Able to work on own initiative with strong project management experience and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
8. Demonstrable ability to lead and manage a team.

Desirable criteria

1. Experience working within the Higher Education sector.
2. Understanding of marketing communications channels & how they can be utilised
3. Ability to work in a team and collaborate on projects

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click "Apply Now". This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ' How we Recruit' pages.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.