Digital Communications Assistant
This is a Permanent, vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The role
The Digital Communications team oversees the online presence of the Royal Academy of Engineering, this includes managing digital content, the website, social media channels and email marketing. As a Digital Communications Assistant, you will support the work of this whole team.
By monitoring social media notifications and engaging with posts that can arrive from over 600,000 followers, you can amplify the work of amazing engineers around the world while creating many people’s first impressions of the Academy. Working with the wider Digital Communications team and colleagues across the organisation, you will have the opportunity to write and schedule posts and design high-quality visuals that inspire our followers to engage with us. As you collate analytics and deliver monthly performance reports, you can bring valuable insights that shape our work.
Joining a small team of website editors, you will play an important role by checking that content drafted by Academy colleagues adheres to our high standards of quality and accessibility before it is published. Supporting other users of our content management system, you will help curate key landing pages while spotting opportunities to refresh the site with new content.
As the first point of contact for many colleagues across the organisation who require communications support, you will play a crucial role in ensuring their requests feed into the overall communications plan. Bringing strong organisational skills to the role, you will have the ability to shape our internal processes while having first sight of some of the exciting activities being run by teams across the Academy. From training policymakers in government, to funding world-changing entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa, or hosting prestigious awards dinners – all of the Academy’s work has a digital angle.
You will be become part of a friendly team who are committed to producing the very best content while giving space for team members to grow and to try new things. Full training on our specific tools and systems will be provided. The important thing is that you’re a well-organised communicator, with the commitment to develop new skills and work as part of a team. As you become established in the role, you will have the opportunity to learn from experienced web, social media, and video production experts, while bringing your own insights and experience to the role.
Application closing date: 27 April 2025
Interview date: Interviews will be held on a rolling basis, early application is recommended.
Interview location: London
Our location
Our light, spacious head office is based in a fantastic location in central London with views over St James’s Park and close to the West End. We operate hybrid, flexible working practices with a baseline for office based working of a mandatory weekly team day plus further days each week as required for the role and the Academy.
Who are we?
Engineering matters. It shapes our everyday lives, from our ability to turn the lights on, have a hot shower and commute into work, to the mobile phones we rely on to keep connected. It also plays a vital role in addressing some of the biggest challenges facing society today, from climate change, to global health pandemics and cyber threats.
The Royal Academy of Engineering is a charity that harnesses the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone. In collaboration with our Fellows and partners, we’re growing talent and developing skills for the future, driving innovation, and building global partnerships, and influencing policy and engaging the public. Together we’re working to tackle the greatest challenges of our age.
With a diverse workforce and an inclusive and supportive culture, we look to attract candidates from wide and different backgrounds who have a passion for the role engineering plays in society. Our aim is to make the Academy the best place to work for the staff we have and those we seek to attract.
Why work for us?
We’re looking for people who are driven to make the world a better place. If you’re passionate about what you do and want to work collaboratively with talented colleagues to make change happen now and for future generations, we want you to get in touch.
This is the perfect time to join us. We have a dynamic, visionary CEO, a strong leadership team and an ambitious and exciting strategy. The value we bring as experts in our field and change agents is highly recognised and makes the Academy a motivating place to be. Our work today builds on a long, proud history with a focused and ambitious future which we’d love you to be part of.
We are looking for talented people who want to make a difference, to join our team – is this you?
The Academy is committed to making reasonable adjustments to remove barriers that hinder applicants from applying or staff from working effectively and comfortably.
The Academy is proud to be an ‘A’ rated visa sponsorship licence holder and will consider visa sponsorship for a migrant skilled worker visa (1 to 5 years) or a new entrant visa (1 to 2 years) where a role is eligible (as defined by the Home Office), in that a suitable Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code is identified, and minimum salary expectations are met.
A certificate of sponsorship and a skilled worker visa application will only be made when an applicant is successful in being ‘conditionally’ offered the role. Offers of employment under the Academy Visa Sponsorship Scheme will not be confirmed until the visa application has been formally approved by the Home Office.
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