St Cross College: Communications Assistant

The Communications Assistant plays a key role in the day-to-day delivery of St Cross College's communications strategy, providing comprehensive and proactive communications support across the College's internal and external channels. Working closely with the Senior Engagement Manager, the post holder plans and organizes communications activity, drafts and coordinates content, maintains the College's digital channels, and works with colleagues across the College to promote its activities and achievements both internally and externally to foster a strong sense of community and raise the…

• Draft and proofread content for the College's internal and external communications channels, including print, digital and social media platforms.
• Contribute to the implementation of the College's communications strategy, including planning and scheduling content distribution, and uploading content to the College's website…
• Maintain the day-to-day content of the College website, making routine edits and updates and liaising with relevant colleagues to help ensure that content remains accurate,…
• Plan, create, schedule and publish routine content across the College's social media channels, working alongside the part-time Student Communications Assistant.
• Coordinate routine internal communications across the College's established channels, including producing the regular College email bulletin, updating digital display boards and…
• Work with colleagues in the College to identify opportunities for media stories and/or communications content.
• Create and adapt visual and multimedia content in support of College communications activity, including editing recorded video content, adding titles, captions and other standard…
• Coordinate the annual production of the College Record, under the oversight of the Senior Engagement Manager.
• Assist in the evaluation of communications activities through a range of tools such as online surveys, feedback forms and digital analytics.
• Work with the communications team to ensure that all College communications follow the University and College guidelines on branding.
• Act as a point of contact for the team by handling phone, email and written enquiries, knowing when to escalate enquiries to another member of the team.
• Be an active member of the University's Communications Community of Practice and/or other relevant networks/groups.