Student Communications and Engagement Coordinator

We believe the world needs creativity. That’s why UAL is a social purpose university, dedicated to nurturing creativity and deploying it to help solve the world’s problems.   

At the core of our 10-year strategy is a commitment to making the world a better place through our collective creative endeavour, and the Communications Executive will be key to communicating to staff and students our progress and engaging them in this focus. 
 
This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of UAL’s first university-wide communications function, bringing together talented colleagues and remarkable stories from our six colleges and its community of approximately 1,000 staff and 5,000 students, as well as its world-famous alumni. The Communications Executive is part of a college team delivering a shared UAL communications and engagement plan that achieves University-wide goals such as attracting students to study with us, embedding social purpose across the University and improving the staff and student experience.    

The successful candidate will work closely with the UAL Student Communications and Engagement team with a postgraduate focus and UAL-wide communications function to support communications and engagement activity for students at key stages in their educational journey, signposting student support and building a sense of belonging to the school/institute/college and connection to UAL’s purpose and to other students across the University. 

They will assist with the promotion and delivery of a diverse programme of online and face-to-face student activities, across the Colleges, for the academic year aligned to the student journey including campaigns such as Welcome, Student Support, Activities Week and survey season. The post holder will also support the creation and dissemination of multi-formal content to student audiences using appropriate channels and platforms such as Moodle, website, offline display materials, digital screens and email newsletters. 

The role is located in UAL’s Holborn offices but with some travel to other UAL sites in London and some days home working. It will be line managed by the UAL Postgraduate Student Communications and Engagement Manager.  

About you 

We are looking for a communications and engagement coordinator who is passionate and details-focused as a writer and has experience of communications and engagement in complex organisations. The post-holder should have a good understanding of publishing digital content and good practice digital accessibility. We are audience-first and evidence-led, so an understanding of how to measure the success of communications activity and how to structure a campaign is also necessary. 

Collaboration is at the heart of this role; both in being a proactive and helpful team player, but also sharing information and working with other teams as part of our new integrated communications structure. The successful candidate will also meet and engage with different staff and student groups throughout UAL to provide communications activity for different areas of the University.  

For further details and to apply please click the apply button. 

Closing date: 2 March 2025 23:55. 

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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