About the Role
This role will help to deliver projects and develop campaigns as part of the collaboration between partner FE Colleges in West Yorkshire, as part of the the West Yorkshire Consortium of Colleges (WYCC).
As Partnership and Communications Officer, you will ensure consistent communications are deployed across a wide range of stakeholders, supporting our portfolio of funded projects and highlighting our service offer.
As part of this role you will also be responsible for maintaining an awareness of developments within the WYCC and its partners, the region’s priority sectors and funding organisations, enabling the consortium to effectively engage in new opportunities.
What You Will Do
- The post holder will effectively communicate the WYCC vision and ambitions to the right partners and key stakeholders, ensuring all are kept well informed, and ensuring ongoing and efficient dissemination of WYCC results and projects.
- The Partnership and Communications Officer will be responsible for managing the key contacts database, maintaining and contributing to the WYCC websites, Members Area and social media channels, event co-ordination and promotion, and will support in key meetings and project engagements.
About You
Some of the attributes we are looking for include:
- Ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders internally and externally.
- Experienced at executing tasks that support marketing and communication strategies, and managing online activities.
- Experience of delivering social media plans and knowledge of platforms including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Google Business.
- Experience of copywriting for different audiences.
- Exceptionally strong organisational skills.
- Capacity for change. Ability to cope with continuous and complex changes, to be flexible and to handle high levels of uncertainty, and ability to show resilience under pressure and remain positive at all times.
- Educated to A Level standard or equivalent.
Benefits
There are plenty of benefits available to our staff members, here are just a few:
- Annual leave entitlement - If you work full time, you'll get at least 27 days holiday plus bank holidays and up to 5 discretionary closure days at Christmas (pro rata for part time staff).
- Support Staff 27 days (increasing to 32 days after 5 years service)
- Academic 37 days
- Senior Management 37 days
- Generous Pension schemes
- Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Memberships and discounts - employees can sign up to various membership cards and discount schemes such as TOTUM card (formerly NUS card).
- Travel and commuting - discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
- Learning and development opportunities - including staff development days
- Employee wellbeing initiatives
- Flexible and hybrid working opportunities - this will vary depending on role requirements
About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.
SAFEGUARDING
At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. It’s not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyone’s contributions and perspectives.
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