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England, United Kingdom

Northampton, United Kingdom

Core duties: Creating and delivering a marketing and communications content and strategic plan for a key stakeholder group. Client side marketing - liaising with agencies to deliver specialised merchandise, ensuring these are on brand and working towards departmental KPIs. Creating the content for, and general day to day community management of the Alumni social media channels. Responsible for the production of copy, videos and images, bespoke for the target market. Providing the highest possible standard of customer service when acting as a first point of call for Alumni - ensuring assistance is provided and issues resolved. Line management of the Alumni Intern. Key skills utilised: Self-starting/managing, internal stakeholder liaison, customer service, brand management, communications and media relations management, client side marketing, expert sector level knowledge.Training completed: Management Fundamentals, Navigator development programme, Graphic Design for Social Media Assets.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Core Duties: Assisting in the designing, developing and distributing of marketing materials for a variety of audiences. Building relationships with colleagues across multiple departments, external agencies and partners. Developing strategies for activity. Supporting the organisation and management of face to face engagement events. Development of a range of marketing communications, publications and promotional material and merchandise to support a wide range of events and activities. Ensuring all content suits the aesthetic, feel, message and tone of the institutions brand across said material. Building and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Planning, producing and monitoring marketing projects from start to finish in line with budget. Website content management and content creation, ensuring SEO optimisation and accessibility compliant. Key Skills Required: Creative content making, time/deadline management, marketing knowledge, sector specific knowledge.Training completed: SEO Optimisation & PPC, Web Accessibility, Project Management.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Core Duties: Strategically planning complex research projects. Presenting findings to a number of stake holder audiences. Developed marketing and media relations strategies and materials for the institute. Leading on a portfolio of projects in areas such as child and adolescent mental health, and perspectives of frontline police staff. Project planning, ensuring delivery was achieved on time and to budget. Selecting appropriate research design for the studies, writing project plans and initiation documentation. Providing progress reports to stakeholders. Taking the project through appropriate approvals, such as ethics committees. In field data collection and analysis. Report writing, including interim reports to funders. Presenting work at UK and international conferences.Key Skills Required: Critical thinking, evidence based decision making, rapport building, report writing, data Analysis.

Luton, United Kingdom

Core Duties: Generating press releases and stories on staff, students, research, corporate information etc. Dealing with press enquiries of all nature – host journalists, offer tours, introductory meetings. Working with non-media trained staff to simplify advanced research and transform it into exciting press releases. Organising, and pushing for, interviews with the media for senior, and academic, staff as well as excelling students. Devise PR plans, and strategies for various campaigns, events, strategies. Additionally I was responsible for securing the University to be the subject of a new ITV2 documentary series “Freshers”, and project managed the University’s obligations during filming - ensuring the best possible reaction from the experience. I project managed the University's transition of media management platform, sourcing options, arranging trial periods, liaising with providers, arranging and organising training for staff, and working with finance. In addition, I designed and managed the upgrade of the University's internal digital signage. Key Skills Required: Creativity, communication, time/deadline management, graphic design, media knowledge.