Marketing and Communications Assistant

Full Time: 35 hours per week

Fixed Term to March 2024 (possibility of extension)

The College of Science and Engineering is looking for a Marketing and Communications Assistant to support The Data Lab’s Marketing and Communications team

The Opportunity:

The main priority for this role will be running the social media channels, including creating content, coming up with new ideas to reach both our existing and new audiences and to benchmark our social media with similar organisations.

The Data Lab is Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI. The Data Lab was founded in 2014 as part of Scotland’s Innovation Centres programme.

At The Data Lab, we believe that data can change lives and make Scotland a better place. Data has become one of the most valuable resources which has the power to create a more productive economy, a better society and tackle climate change. So we act as a catalyst, using our expertise, network of companies, public sector organisations and universities, funding and platform to change how Scotland, and the world, innovates with data. www.thedatalab.com

At The Data Lab we live by our values of Support, Respect, Innovate and Growth. If you work for us you will have the opportunity to work and build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders in private and public sectors as well as in academia.  But most importantly you will play an important part in making a difference to people’s lives and making Scotland fairer and better.

Through hubs in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness, we foster innovation through collaboration, build skills and grow talent, and champion Scotland’s data science community.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Knowledge of marketing and communication approaches and strategies
• Knowledge of online advertising
• Degree in Marketing, Communications or design.
• Experience of working and liaising with external suppliers, particularly design agencies and ensuring they are well briefed to meet project objectives.
• Ability to work in user-focused way to ensure excellent customer service

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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