Marketing & Social Media Assistant
About the role
This job is only available to current students at the University of Bath.
This is a fixed-term role for approximately six months. This placement starts in January and is only open to University of Bath School of Management placement students.
We are looking for a creative and motivated placement student to support our social media and marketing activities. Working with our Marketing team, you'll help to raise the profile of the School of Management and promote our courses to UK and international students.
The role
You'll help to develop and create engaging content for our social media channels:
- YouTube
You’ll also support the production of marketing campaign materials, both digital and print. You will gain experience in supporting the planning and delivery of events.
In this role, you’ll help create a range of social media content for our channels. Here are some examples previous placement students have created:
- Topical trending content
- Content in Bath
- Graduation
You'll have the opportunity to:
- Apply your knowledge and experience of the University of Bath School of Management to developing innovative marketing solutions
- Play a key role in delivering and developing the University’s brand
- Make a real impact on how the School of Management promotes itself to prospective students
- Be part of a creative and collaborative team
About you
We're looking for someone who can communicate effectively and develop good working relationships. You should have excellent organisational skills, be a great teammate and be able to independently manage your workload.
In this video, previous Marketing & Social Media Assistant, Jonathan, shares his experience of the role: https://youtube.com/shorts/qMDDVxg6oPs
Further information
For an informal chat about the role, please email our Marketing Manager Kathryn Perry (klb65@bath.ac.uk) or current placement student Alex Miners (am5109@bath.ac.uk).
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award.
We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university.
We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
What we can offer you
We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:
- Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
- Generous employer contributory pension schemes
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Staff discount at Team Bath gym
- Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
- Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
- A family-friendly workplace
- An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
- Relocation allowance
- Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
- Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app
Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.
Be Well at Bath
We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:
- Staff support groups and networks
- A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
- A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive
Find out more about being at your best at Bath.
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Further details
- Job Description & Person Specification
Terms and Conditions of Employment
Right to Work in the UK: We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.
Anonymous shortlisting: We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.
