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Digital Communications and Design Manager

Russell Group Of Universities 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

$52,000 - $57,000 Full-time Manager

Lead digital design and communications, producing and overseeing high-quality content, publications, brand assets, and social media activity across the Russell Group’s channels. Plan and optimise campaigns, maintain digital assets and websites, use data to improve communications, and collaborate with colleagues and member universities to support advocacy priorities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead digital design and communications, producing and overseeing high-quality content, publications, brand assets, and social media activity across the Russell Group’s channels. Plan and optimise campaigns, maintain digital assets and websites, use data to improve communications, and collaborate with colleagues and member universities to support advocacy priorities.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have professional experience in digital communications, publication and graphic design, social media management, and hands-on photo and video editing, along with a track record of developing digital strategies and consistent brand styles. They should be proactive, able to manage competing priorities and deadlines, communicate with varied audiences and stakeholders, and work collaboratively; higher education or UK political knowledge is advantageous but not essential.

Benefits

  • USS Pension Scheme
  • 25 Days Of Annual Leave, Increasing To 30 Days
  • Discretionary Easter And Christmas Closure Days
  • Private Healthcare Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme

Key Skills

Digital design Communications strategy Content production Publication design Brand asset management Social media management Campaign planning Data analysis for communications Website maintenance Stakeholder collaboration Advocacy communications Photo editing Video editing Adobe Creative Suite Project management Multichannel storytelling Higher‑education sector knowledge Leadership Strategic thinking

About Russell Group Of Universities

Our universities share the ambition to change the world for the better. Anchored in their communities, Russell Group universities are global institutions with a vital role to play in cities and towns in every corner of the UK. Partnership is at the heart of our universities’ ethos. Working with schools, colleges, local authorities, the NHS, businesses and charities, our universities use their scale, research excellence and global links to provide solutions for real problems facing families, businesses and public services. From achieving net zero, to reducing social inequalities and addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and from harnessing the power of AI safely to improving the NHS and finding new cures and treatments; Russell Group universities are working to deliver wide-ranging social, economic, cultural, health and environmental impacts.

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