Placement Student

**Salary**: £24,344 per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date: 04 April 2025

**The role**

Following a major philanthropic donation of £1.2m over 5 years to advance the University’s enterprise and entrepreneurship offer, we are seeking to recruit a placement student to support marketing and communications activities for the Rob Wood Enterprising Future Academy, the Careers Service and the Student Life team.

You will support the promotion of a range of projects and initiatives that:

- Prepares students for changing labour market environments and provides them with alternative perspectives on their career options
- Supports more students and recent graduates to consider self-employment/ starting their own business

You will be responsible for ensuring that services and events are effectively communicated to our key stakeholders, predominantly students and recent graduates.

We’re looking for a creative and ambitious student, who is confident in front of a camera, to capture and edit engaging student-led content for Instagram, blogs, newsletters and more.

This is a fixed term placement for the duration of 1 year.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Work within the Marketing & Comms team to provide marketing support to all teams including the Rob Wood Enterprising Futures Academy, the Careers Service and the Student Life team
- Generate new content for social media, blogs, newsletters, and the Student Noticeboard
- Design and create visual graphics in line with brand guidelines using Adobe Creative Suite software & Canva (for social media, print materials, merchandise etc)
- Management of Instagram accounts including community management and keeping up-to-date with new social media trends
- Plan and create engaging social media content for Instagram (in particular, Instagram stories and Reels)
- Lead on the reporting of monthly social media statistics
- Support the planning, promotion and delivery of regular events across the Rob Wood Enterprising Futures Academy, the Careers Service and the Student Life team
- Contribute new ideas, driven by user demand, for student-facing activities
- Conduct independent market research projects
- Undertake general tasks and duties as directed by your line manager

**The Person (Essential)**

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**
- Strong team player, with ability to work alone when necessary
- Strong verbal and written communication skills e.g. proposals, reports and presentations
- Able to deal with a variety of people in a professional manner
- Use of office IT systems including Word and PowerPoint, databases and web/internet
- Excellent understanding of social media, in particular, Instagram
- Good copywriting skills
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Excellent time management and ability to use initiative where appropriate
- Experience with design software, in particular, Adobe InDesign and Canva

**Attributes and Behaviour**
- Must have a ‘creative flare’
- Excellent attention to detail
- Social media savvy, comfortable in front of and behind the camera
- Flexible approach to work
- Works collaboratively with others, plays a positive role in teams and establishes and grows relationships across the organisation where different skills, expertise and opinions are valued
- Manages time and resources by prioritising and organising effectively

**Qualifications**

Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.

At Newcastle University we hold a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality. We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC. We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.

In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe.

Requisition ID: 27970