Communications & Content Assistant

About Us

King’s College London is one of the world’s leading universities with an ambitious vision, the successful outcome of which is in large part dependent on its ability to communicate and engage effectively across the University.

About the Role

The Communications & Content Assistant will be a key team member of the Internal Communications team within Communications & External Affairs, supporting delivery of timely and impactful communications to staff and students across the University. You will be responsible for creating, updating and publishing content for the University’s central channels (intranet, Viva Engage, Student News Hub), producing the weekly staff newsletter and monitoring performance of the channels. You will also be responsible for monitoring and triaging the busy internal communications mailbox, keeping the forward planner updated and supporting the team as required.

This is a full time (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract

About You

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

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level or relevant work experience  
• Excellent verbal and writing skills, editing, and proofreading to a high standard. 
• Ability to produce creative and compelling content for a wide range of audiences 
• Understanding of analytics to measure and improve channels and content  
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage conflicting priorities  
• Able to work as part of a team and support others when necessary to ensure effective delivery of communications.
• Ability to build effective relationships within the team and wider University. 
• Excellent IT skills and a high level of technical aptitude (including use of MS Office, content management systems, video editing)

Desirable criteria

• Interest in higher education  
• Interest in Internal Communications  

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”.

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.

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.

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