About The Team:
Based in Edinburgh, the Communications team promotes the wide range of exciting news at SRUC, from its groundbreaking research to its innovative courses and inspiring students. The Communications Officer will play a key role in raising SRUC's profile among key stakeholders and prospective students.
The Opportunity:
The main purpose of this role is to promote SRUC's research, education and consultancy activities across a broad range of audiences, both internal and external; support and implement SRUC's strategic objectives through communications, PR and knowledge exchange; and deal with reactive enquiries from journalists.
In this role you will also help improve student engagement, retention rates, internal conversion rates, recruitment, survey performance, student voice and student satisfaction through effective two-way communications with the student body.
In this role you will:
Work with SRUC colleagues to identify stories, write press releases and pitch stories to a wide variety of media, including national and local newspapers, trade magazines, and television, radio and online news outlets.
Support and implement SRUC's strategic objectives in communications, PR and knowledge exchange, by including key SRUC messaging into press releases, blog posts, briefing documents and reactive quotes provided to the media.
Promote SRUC's research...