Communications and Marketing Manager (Maternity Cover)

Are you an experienced marketing professional, ready for your next challenge?

Are you a first-class communicator, passionate about developing content across different media and digital channels and able to engage effectively with a range of audiences?

Are you passionate about the value that moving image and sound have in enriching teaching and learning alongside text?

If your answer is ‘Yes’ to all these questions, then this could be the role for you...

About the role:

We are looking for a talented individual with strong creative and editorial ability to help tell the story of Learning on Screen's work and impact to our members and the sector.

This is a hands-on role encompassing the full marketing mix to support the creation and implementation of marketing campaigns. Working across both our membership services and research and academic teams, you will support the marketing of existing and new multi-channel campaigns, with membership retention and acquisition as well as staff engagement at its heart. The ideal candidate will be dynamic, driven, and energetic, with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.

About you:

You will possess a range of communications and marketing experiences and understand key methodologies and techniques to deliver outstanding communications. You will have experience with or qualifications in marketing, digital marketing, and social media. With excellent negotiation and influencing skills you will engage colleagues and audiences while informing campaigns and activity. High levels of written and verbal communication with ability to write and develop short, medium, and long-term plans being a key requirement.

It’s simple – we’re looking for the people who ‘can’. We want the talented, the energetic and the ambitious. With a willingness to learn and adapt to a dynamic environment in which priorities can quickly change. We need the inspired and the inspirational and who are determined to make real and lasting change in education.

Why Learning on Screen?

This is an exciting time to join Learning on Screen. With a new CEO, we are starting to explore our new strategic direction for the coming years.

Since 1948, as a charity and membership organisation, Learning on Screen has led the discovery, citation, and responsible use of audio-visual material in education and research. Working with over 200 Higher, Further and School education member institutions we will continue to champion our vision for the future - ‘to make moving image and sound as important in education and research as the written word’.

We provide On Demand TV and radio, academic online services, training and events, copyright advice and research development assistance as well as run the Learning on Screen Awards, the UK's only celebration of media production in learning, teaching, and research.

We offer flexibility around working arrangements to all our team including hybrid working, working from home etc, depending on your own circumstances and what best fits your approach to work.

Job Type: Part-Time (21.6 hours a week, 3-day weeks), fixed term contract.

Salary: £36,000 pro rata

How to apply:

To apply for this role, please submit your CV and a covering letter to ceo@learningonscreen.ac.uk.

The job pack containing the job description and person specification can be downloaded here:

Job Pack - Communications and Marketing Manager

The deadline for receipt of applications is 9am on Tuesday 2nd May 2023.

Unfortunately, we are unable to consider any applications received after the deadline.

Interviews will be held the week commencing Monday 8th May 2023.