Address Job no: 522650
Work type: casual
Location: Sydney, NSW
Categories: Business Development / Industry Engagement, Entrepreneurship
UNSW is Australia’s best university for building successful entrepreneurs.
Ranked by the number of venture capital funded start-ups founded by graduates, adjusted for size of the university, UNSW is the clear winner with an impressive 105 VC funded founders per 100,000 graduates.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the UNSW Founders Program, the embedded entrepreneurship platform as the Senior Content and Engagement Specialist. This role is crucial in articulating the success stories of UNSW’s aspiring startups. Your expertise will be pivotal in crafting engaging content and pioneering engagement strategies to galvanize our community. Your storytelling skills will highlight our startups, resonating with a network of innovators and investors, while your engagement initiatives will invigorate our entrepreneurial culture. Step into a role where your creativity sparks innovation and leads the narrative of entrepreneurship in Australia.
Position Summary
The Senior Communications and Engagement Officer provides proactive, practical and efficient engagement, Communications and administrative support to UNSW Founders. The role will act as a key liaison for all media activity and support various engagement activities and contribute to a successful marketing and communications strategy in the Division of Research & Enterprise.
This role will:
Act as the key liaison for all media activity (including website, social media, EDMs, newsletters, video production and SharePoint) taking direction from Senior Manager and escalating where necessary, to both develop content and utilise partner channels to promote UNSW Founders.
Provide support to the Senior Manager and support the creation, coordination and curation across all forms of content and other projects.
Assist to refine Comms Strategy, Key Messages, and identify new opportunities to position UNSW as Australia’s most entrepreneurial university.
Create, review, and edit brand assets as well as optimise existing brand assets for continuous improvement.
Develop content (according to UNSW style guide and meeting deadlines) for online engagement, collaborating with multiple stakeholders and managing execution through various digital channels including editing, image sourcing and design for publishing to social channels.
Maintain strong and effective stakeholder relationships throughout the Faculty and the Division.
Work as part of the team to monitor social channels and maintain accurate content.
Collate content metrics in order to make improvements and maximise performance.
Cooperate with all health and safety policies and procedures of the university and take all reasonable care to ensure that your actions or omissions do not impact on the health and safety of yourself or others.
A person engaged is generally expected to have the following skills and experience:
A degree in a relevant field or an equivalent level of knowledge gained through a combination of education, training and/or experience.
Experience creating content for publication across multiple channels.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to liaise with a range of stakeholders.
High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office software and other online content/design.
For any job enquiries, please contact
Kristen Phillips - **********@unsw.edu.au
Advertised: 07 Feb 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 23 Feb 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
