SGSAH is looking for a Media & Communications Assistant to support our public profile and contribute to a range of digital outputs and campaigns to grow our audience.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Partnership Manager, the post holder will work within the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) supporting its public profile alongside contributing to a range of digital outputs and campaigns to grow our audience.  You will work as part of a small and friendly team, based within the University of Glasgow, enhancing the visibility of arts and humanities doctoral research amongst SGSAH stakeholders and wider audiences and supporting communications around the ten year anniversary of SGSAH. You will support our internal and external communications and digital content strategy, write and disseminate publicity material including regular newsletters, respond to inquiries from the public and media, and assist with coordinating promotional events.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Write, edit, and distribute content, including publications, press releases, website content, annual reports, and other marketing material that communicates the organisation's activities, products and/or services.
2. Responsible for the management of the SGSAH presence on social networking sites including (but not exhaustive) Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, YouTube and other similar community sites ensuring consistency of voice and accurate and timely provision of information.
3. Keep up to date with and monitor trends in social media tools and applications and recommend new channels for SGSAH as appropriate.
4. Provide oversight of the SGSAH webpages, regularly reviewing overall structure and content to ensure a high quality service.
5. Establish and manage a communications network from across SGSAH and other partners as and when determined to create, manage and promote digital and social content to fit with SGSAH objectives and continue to build on a strong brand.
6. Utilise design skills to use applications and other editing platforms to create infographics, photos to enhance social media posts and campaigns etc.
7. Work with internal and external vendors to support the production of videos and organise video shoots and editorial schedules. This includes generating specific video content, producing engaging footage to be published on various SGSAH channels including YouTube, Instagram etc.
8. To implement SGSAH’s communications strategy publicising SGSAH training courses, funding opportunities and other events by:
   - drafting newsletters, marketing emails, news releases and other communications
   - developing and maintaining effective relationships with communications teams in member HEIs
9. Responsible for liaising with the SGSAH Student Blogger and Digital Curator to provide information, contacts, coordinate social media campaigns.
10. Keep up to date with best practice in the higher education sector – in Scotland, the UK and internationally.
11. To provide support to the Partnership Manager, Administrator, Head of Operations and Strategy and the Director of the SGSAH. This will include responsibility for administration and event management of postgraduate research training courses and SGSAH events.
12. Undertake other duties related to this post as may be prescribed from time to time which are commensurate with the level of responsibility of the role.

Terms and Conditions 

Salary will be Grade 5, £25,138 - £29,605 per annum.

This post is full time (35 hours per week) and fixed term for up to 12 months. This is a full-time position, however we would also consider 0.8FTE (28 hours per week).

The deadline for applications is 25 February 2024.

To view the full job specification and to apply, please visit: https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ click ‘search our vacancies’ and search using the following vacancy reference: 138848.

First published: 6 February 2024