Job Description

Salary:

Band 4 - starting salary 17,028 (FTE 28,381) with annual, incremental progression up to 18,483 (FTE 30,805)

Hours:

0.6 FTE (22.2 hours / 3 days per week)

Contract Type:

Permanent

Closing date:

Monday 30 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Arts University Plymouth (AUP) is looking to appoint a Digital Content & Social Media Officer to join our Brand & Communications team. In this role you will join a creative, integral and impactful team within Arts University Plymouth, creating and delivering digital content and social media.

Arts University Plymouth is the UKs newest specialist arts university and a national leader in creative education. Named University of the Year for South West England in both 2024 and 2025 at the Whatuni Student Choice Awards, and ranked second in the UK for student satisfaction by Times Higher Education in 2024, we are proud to be consistently rated the top-scoring arts university in the UK in the National Student Survey since 2022.

Founded in 1856 as the Plymouth Drawing School, weve evolved over nearly 170 years to become an award-winning hub of creative innovation and interdisciplinary practice. Our city-centre campuses offer over 13,000 square metres of professional studios and workshops, with open access to specialist facilities spanning materials, media and digital technologies.

In order to showcase our students, staff and events effectively, we anticipate that this role will be predominantly based on-campus with some homeworking possible each week.

About you:

Youll be a bright and ambitious team player, with real energy and enthusiasm. Youll be results driven and analytical, with great attention to detail. Youll primarily be responsible for researching, creating, commissioning and publishing engaging and creative content across our various social media channels and online profiles, with a video-first focus (including reels, Tik Tok etc), engaging with our audiences in a meaningful way and supporting our recruitment targets. Youll be experienced in using a range of content management systems to update websites, with the ability to write accurate and engaging copy as well as ensuring our web content is up to date and in line with CMA compliance and web accessibility requirements

About the role:

You will support the Head of Communications and Marketing and work with the Senior Press & Communications Officer, our Brand & Digital Marketing Manager, and the wider Brand, Recruitment and Admissions Team and our university staff to research, write and commission content to promote the work and events of the university, our students, staff, alumni and partners. You will collaborate, innovate and try new ways to reach our audiences and to help us achieve our university targets for student success and growth. This will include filming and editing, photography, and upskilling others to help create valuable marketing content. The content youll create and share across multiple social media and digital channels will have a direct and positive impact, growing our excellent brand profile internationally and communicating the unique benefits of creative education at Arts University Plymouth.

In return youll get:

15 days annual leave per annum, plus bank holidays Access to a supportive Employee Assistance Programme Enrolment onto a Local Government Pension scheme Additional benefits such as a cycle to work scheme and discounted bus tickets

Safeguarding and Compliance

All appointments are subject to a

DBS check

, and you will be required to provide appropriate documentation as part of the onboarding process.

Right to Work

Applicants must have the legal

right to work in the UK

. We are currently unable to offer visa sponsorship. Proof of Right to Work will be required before an offer of employment is made.

How to Apply

To apply, please complete the

online application form

. Please note that we are unable to accept CVs in place of a completed application.

We encourage early applications, as the advert may close prior to the listed closing date due to high levels of interest. Please apply early to avoid disappointment.

If you are interested in the role and would like to find out more, please refer to the role profile or alternatively, feel free to contact Lauren Taverner Brown, Head of Communications & Marketing, laurentavernerbrown@aup.ac.uk Arts University Plymouth has a strong commitment to the safeguarding & welfare of young people & vulnerable adults. A satisfactory DBS disclosure at Enhanced Level will be required from successful candidates as a condition of appointment. We celebrate equality, diversity and difference, and welcome candidates from all communities. In the event that the University has employees eligible for redeployment at the time of shortlisting, for example due to the end of a fixed term contract, these candidates may be entitled to a priority interview.

Creative Education for a Changing World

Arts University Plymouth will set a vision towards 2030 based upon sustainable growth, solution focused teaching and research, and a commitment to impactful social justice and ecological change through its people, culture and place. Our strategy Creative Education for a Changing World will ensure that our work is energised and designed to meet the ambitions of its students and staff while acknowledging the shifting realm of creativity through new technologies and the workplaces of tomorrow.

Our strategy is built upon three pillars, Creative Endeavour, Sustainable Futures, and People & Place. Through this, we have set a critical path towards a holistic and embedded pedagogical approach under the title Teaching for our Time, that will guide all of our creative endeavours. We believe that authenticity, fulfilment and kindness are indexical qualities in the process of thinking, making and living.

Strategic Vision

Our vision for Arts University Plymouth is a new kind of arts university for the 21st century, preparing graduates who are uniquely placed to provide creative solutions to the complex global challenges of our times.

We will champion our people, place and pedagogy at the heart of our mission, delivering sustainable growth and impactful change in terms of creative economies, civic engagement and cultural ambition in Plymouth and the wider region.

We will enhance our reputation as a catalyst for individual, societal and ecological transformation, delivering innovative and distinctive learning, teaching and research through its interdisciplinary ecosystem of materials, processes, technologies and knowledge exchange.

Why Plymouth?

Our beautiful city was voted as

Britains best city to live and work in

by The Telegraph in September 2024, beating Bristol, London, Manchester and Birmingham. Take a look at the showreels linked below to see why we are proud to boast about our city.

We've also been named

one of the world's top underrated travel destinations

by Time Out. Plymouth is a vibrant city that offers stunning coastlines, wild moorlands, and a rich cultural scene. Attractions include the iconic Tinside Lido, and some of the regions best entertainment and culture, from award winning museum and gallery The Box, to Real Ideas Market Hall, home to Europes first-of-its-kind 350-degree Immersive Dome.

Plymouth is Britains Ocean City, a confident and growing city that is undergoing a cultural revolution. With world-class connectivity, one of the highest rates of superfast broadband availability in the UK, excellent transport links, an international airport under an hour away, and stunning outside spaces on the doorstep such as Plymouth Sound National Marine Park, Dartmoor National Park it offers a great lifestyle. Find out more here:

Invest Plymouth Showreel
Living & Working in Plymouth...a great quality of life...