Communications Assistant

Closing date: Friday 17^th February 2023 at midnight

Interview date: Tuesday 7^th March 2023

We're looking for a creative and capable Communications Coordinator to join our busy team at York St John University.

The role

You’ll support the University’s Communications team to keep staff and students up to date and identify opportunities to enhance the University’s reputation both regionally and nationally. By understanding our audiences, you’ll help to find the best ways to promote our staff and student achievements, highlight our community contribution and showcase our growing research influence.

Required skills and experience

We’re looking for someone with experience of working in a paid communications or marketing role, able to administrate and take responsibility for sharing accurate messages across multiple channels, including our website, intranet, student app, CRM, social media and internal communication channels.

Our ideal candidate will share our values of fairness, sustainability and inspiring others to succeed. We welcome all applicants and particularly people from minority ethnic backgrounds as they are underrepresented within the University. 

We expect the appointed candidate to work both remotely and from our office in York.

Additional information

For further information about this role please contact Amy Lansdown Nasson, Head of Communications and Media Relations at a.lansdown-nasson@yorksj.ac.uk.

If you require a reasonable adjustment in order to apply for this position please contact vacancies@yorksj.ac.uk. Within the application form there is an opportunity for you to request a reasonable adjustment at the interview stage of the process, however if you wish to discuss this in further detail at any point in the process please do not hesitate to contact us.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including:

• Excellent annual leave entitlement, including five discretionary university closure days over the Christmas period
• Pension scheme
• Health Cash Plan after one years' service
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Relocation expenses package for certain roles

We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive policies and facilities to support staff from different backgrounds. As part of our commitment to providing an inclusive working environment, consideration is given to all requests for job share or flexible working arrangements. 

Please note that CVs are not accepted in place of the application form.