Social Media & Communications Officer

Social Media & Communications Officer

College location: East Surrey College (Redhill) with travel to John Ruskin College (Croydon)

Salary: £25,000-£30,000 (Subject to qualifications, skills and experience)

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:45-17:00 (37 hours/week)

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Media & Communications professional to join a dynamic team and support the growth development Orbital South Colleges.

As part of the Communications branch of the marketing team, you’ll manage the Colleges digital channels including social media, email marketing and website. You’ll be responding to queries, creating engaging digital content that is relevant to target audiences in support of both strategic and tactical objectives and monitoring and reporting on the success of this content.

You will create and lead on the delivery of online marketing activity that drives student enrolment and liaise with the design team to create engaging assets for use across different social media channels, website and emails. You will also manage and develop the College websites using a Content Management System and support all relevant College departments producing customer-facing communication to ensure a continuous and consistent message.

As a person, you’ll be highly organised and able to balance multiple projects whilst liaising with a wide range of audiences at all levels across the College Group and also be able to work both independently and in a team.

The successful candidate must have:

• Proven experience in a digital marketing role, working on websites
• Exemplary copywriting and proof-reading skills with excellent attention to detail
• Experience of social media marketing/management for an organisation
• Experience of email marketing
• Excellent interpersonal skills and working cross departmentally

If this sounds like you and you will enjoy working in a forward thinking, friendly, fast paced, changing environment with state of the art facilities, we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such a choice of two excellent pension schemes, a brilliant holiday package, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in house Spa and Salon treatments.

*Applications will however be shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before this closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to all unsuccessful candidates. If you have not heard from us within 14 days of sending your CV, unfortunately you have not been selected for the position.

Please refer to the attached Job Description, Person Specification and Competency Framework and apply using the button below.

Orbital South Colleges Group are committed to Equal Opportunities, encouraging applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population. We are also committed to PREVENT and Safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Both College Campus’ are smoke-free zones.

As part of our pre-employment checks, successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS, references will be taken and evidence of all qualifications and awards will also be required before commencement of employment. Failure to do so may lead to offers being withdrawn.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as we do not sponsor work permits, and work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £25,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Gym membership
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Redhill: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (preferred)

Experience:

• Social media marketing: 1 year (preferred)
• social media: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: ESC/JRC