Internal Communications Officer

Vacancy ID
 

10203

College/Service
 
London College of Fashion

Department/Team
 
Internal and External Relations

Location
 
LCF – Stratford, London UK

Grade
 
Grade 3

Salary
 
£32,624 – £39,342 per annum

Contract
 

Fixed Term – 18 months

Hours
 

Full time – 35 hours per week

Apply by
 

2 October 2023 23:55

Interviews
 
Interviews – day
Interviews – month
Interviews – year
16 October 2023

Job description
 
Internal Communications Officer JDPS.docx – 49KB

Converted File Internal Communications Officer JDPS.docx.pdf – 60KB


Additional document/s
 
Candidate Information Pack Feb 2023.pdf – 1419KB

The opportunity

The role of the Internal Communications Officer is pivotal within Internal and External Relations as an internal ‘roving reporter’ – being actively involved to research, facilitate, disseminate, and track new content for our staff and student audiences across the internal channels and LCF Stories (our blog). They work closely with the Internal Communications Manager and Internal Communities Manager to create the best content for LCF staff and students and assist with planning this editorially across internal channels.

The role includes writing, acquiring factual information for operational comms, scheduling weekly and monthly newsletters, creative content creation for digital screens and maintaining content management systems.

If you have any queries about this role, please contact the recruiting manager Jo Sait on [email protected].

If you have any queries about the application process or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact the Resourcing Team at [email protected].

About you

You will be a very proactive, hands-on person, able to find innovative ways to use content to engage with staff and students, and someone ready to be present in person to help reach different communities at LCF. You will be an excellent planner, able to work on many projects at once, with different members of the department in different formats such as writing and image work and for different channels. You will be a creative team player, contributing ideas in meetings, and a good listener, actively taking on board feedback to ensure our internal communications campaigns resonate with our staff and students. 

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. UAL is ranked second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings. The University is made up of 6 renowned Colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts.

In 2022, we launched our new 10-year strategy, ‘The world needs creativity’. Our strategy has three Guiding Policies. We identified the challenges and opportunities that are most important to UAL and our future and the guiding policies are our response to each of these issues in turn. Creativity is a skill vital across the economy and society. In today’s knowledge economy, this will become increasingly so.

To give our students the skills they need, we must change the way we teach and deliver a rich and rewarding student experience. By doing so, in partnership with our staff and students, we will ensure our students are equipped to work in sectors beyond the creative industries. Our students will have the careers they want, the economy will have the creative skills it needs, and we will build a better world.

Our culture

UAL is home to a diverse body of over 6,000 academic, professional and technical staff who support more than 21,000 students from 130 countries. We are proud of our international student and staff community and are committed to ensuring that the University offers an inclusive and supportive environment for everyone.

We are a proud Stonewall Diversity Champion and in 2022 achieved a Gold Award in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index, helping us to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued and included at work. We are a member of the Race Equality Charter (REC), to help us reduce barriers that negatively impact Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff and students. We are a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and a member of the Business Disability Forum, which help us to recruit, retain, develop and improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

Vacancy ID
 

10203

College/Service
 
London College of Fashion

Department/Team
 
Internal and External Relations

Location
 
LCF – Stratford, London UK

Grade
 
Grade 3

Salary
 
£32,624 – £39,342 per annum

Contract
 

Fixed Term – 18 months

Hours
 

Full time – 35 hours per week

Apply by
 

2 October 2023 23:55

Interviews
 
Interviews – day
Interviews – month
Interviews – year
16 October 2023

Job description
 
Internal Communications Officer JDPS.docx – 49KB

Converted File Internal Communications Officer JDPS.docx.pdf – 60KB


Additional document/s
 
Candidate Information Pack Feb 2023.pdf – 1419KB

The opportunity

The role of the Internal Communications Officer is pivotal within Internal and External Relations as an internal ‘roving reporter’ – being actively involved to research, facilitate, disseminate, and track new content for our staff and student audiences across the internal channels and LCF Stories (our blog). They work closely with the Internal Communications Manager and Internal Communities Manager to create the best content for LCF staff and students and assist with planning this editorially across internal channels.

The role includes writing, acquiring factual information for operational comms, scheduling weekly and monthly newsletters, creative content creation for digital screens and maintaining content management systems.

If you have any queries about this role, please contact the recruiting manager Jo Sait on [email protected].

If you have any queries about the application process or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact the Resourcing Team at [email protected].

About you

You will be a very proactive, hands-on person, able to find innovative ways to use content to engage with staff and students, and someone ready to be present in person to help reach different communities at LCF. You will be an excellent planner, able to work on many projects at once, with different members of the department in different formats such as writing and image work and for different channels. You will be a creative team player, contributing ideas in meetings, and a good listener, actively taking on board feedback to ensure our internal communications campaigns resonate with our staff and students. 

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. UAL is ranked second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings. The University is made up of 6 renowned Colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts.

In 2022, we launched our new 10-year strategy, ‘The world needs creativity’. Our strategy has three Guiding Policies. We identified the challenges and opportunities that are most important to UAL and our future and the guiding policies are our response to each of these issues in turn. Creativity is a skill vital across the economy and society. In today’s knowledge economy, this will become increasingly so.

To give our students the skills they need, we must change the way we teach and deliver a rich and rewarding student experience. By doing so, in partnership with our staff and students, we will ensure our students are equipped to work in sectors beyond the creative industries. Our students will have the careers they want, the economy will have the creative skills it needs, and we will build a better world.

Our culture

UAL is home to a diverse body of over 6,000 academic, professional and technical staff who support more than 21,000 students from 130 countries. We are proud of our international student and staff community and are committed to ensuring that the University offers an inclusive and supportive environment for everyone.

We are a proud Stonewall Diversity Champion and in 2022 achieved a Gold Award in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index, helping us to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued and included at work. We are a member of the Race Equality Charter (REC), to help us reduce barriers that negatively impact Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff and students. We are a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and a member of the Business Disability Forum, which help us to recruit, retain, develop and improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.