Head of Creative Services (Interim)

About the role

This is a pivotal position responsible for overseeing our visual identity, creative services, content and event engagement strategies. It's an interim role whilst we recruit for the permanent post. Here are all the great things the interim role entails:

Event Management: Oversee Open Day events and degree ceremonies, working with our events team, ensuring impeccable execution and memorable experiences for attendees.

Content Leadership: Lead our content team in crafting and developing core marketing web pages and content for key marketing collateral, including prospectuses, ensuring they accurately reflect our institution's values, messaging and offerings.

Media Production, Visual Identity and Print: Co-ordinate graphic design, photography and video projects for marketing collateral, working with our team of creatives to maintain a cohesive and compelling visual identity and ensuring brand consistency. Oversee our print unit, which provides a vital service, including to our students and staff.

The role is for a 6 month period. For an informal discussion about the role with Corinne Evans, Vice-President (External Relations), please contact Gail Gillespie on gg213@bath.ac.uk.

About you

• Experience in Implementing Brand and Visual Guidelines: You have a proven track record of implementing brand and visual guidelines and processes to maintain a cohesive and compelling visual identity across various marketing materials.
• Resource Management and Strategic Planning: You possess the ability to effectively manage resources and develop strategies and plans to deliver required financial outcomes, ensuring efficient utilisation of resources while achieving desired goals.
• Collaborative Team Player: You thrive in a multi-disciplinary team environment, collaborating with marketing practitioners, designers, and other creative service providers to achieve common objectives.
• Effective Supplier Relationship Management: Your experience includes managing long-term external supplier relationships, ensuring seamless collaboration and delivery of high-quality services to support our creative endeavours.

What we can offer you:

• a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
• generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
• an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities
• a number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be an inclusive 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 equality 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, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams. 

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

Further details:

• Job Description & Person Specification
• Terms and Conditions of Employment

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