Applying
Application deadline: Mon 06 Jun 2022
Send your CV and cover letter to [email protected].
Details
Remote working during summer.
You will work closely with the Design and Marketing Department and sabbatical officers to ensure incoming students are equipped with current and engaging content about the Students’ Association and University.
You’ll need to show flexibility, creativity and be comfortable and confident using current social media platforms. A knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud and feel comfortable with a camera would also be advantageous but not essential for this role.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities of Post-holder
- Your primary role will be to run the "Class of" Instagram page. Managing access and organising Instagram takeovers as well as signposting incoming students to the Association’s social media and web platforms.
- You will work with the Marketing Department into create engaging informal content for incoming students on platforms such as TikTok.
- Your work will link into our website, the University’s Orientation App and printed material to ensure strong promotion of our key messages through different channels.
- You will liaise with student groups and representatives to ensure information we hold about them on our website are up-to-date and correct.
- During Freshers’ Week you may be asked to do some in-person work but this role will predominantly be online.
The Association
The University of St Andrews Students’ Association presently has over 11,000 members. We provide a range of services including advice and representation, a catering service on two sites and four bars. We are the primary entertainments venue for St Andrews’ students, and support a thriving student activities scene with over 140 affiliated societies.
The University of St Andrews Students’ Association is committed to promoting diversity and equality for all and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We particularly aim to include perspectives from candidates with disabilities, from BAME backgrounds, and those with diverse sexualities or marginalised gender identities.
Person Specification
| Attributes |
Essential |
Desirable |
Means of assessment |
| Experience & Knowledge (examples of specific experience and knowledge sought) |
- Good knowledge of social media
- Writing content to a high standard
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- Understanding of the Students’ Association
- Experience working with Adobe software packages such as Illustrator, Photoshop, In Design
|
CV, application letter and interview |
| Competencies & Skills (effective communication skills, initiative, flexibility, leadership etc.) |
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Creative and flexible
- Ability to communicate effectively and clearly with student body
- Ability to work proactively and manage time and deadlines
- Well-organised, attentive to detail and conscientious
- Good administrative and organisational skills
|
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Understanding of diversity and equality
|
CV, application letter, interview |
- Essential criteria
- Requirements without which a candidate would not be able to undertake the full remit of the role. Applicants who have not clearly demonstrated in their application that they possess the essential requirements will normally be rejected at the short listing stage.
- Desirable criteria
- Requirements which would be useful for the candidate to hold. When short listing, these criteria will be considered when more than one applicant meets the essential requirements.