BactiVac Marketing & Communications Assistant

BactiVac Marketing & Communications Assistant

BactiVac Marketing & Communications Assistant

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Join Our Team as a Marketing & Communications Assistant at BactiVac!

About Us:BactiVac is a global network dedicated to accelerating the development of vaccines against bacterial infections, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Since 2017, we have grown to over 2,200 members across 92 countries, with 52% based in LMICs. We foster collaboration through funding, training, and annual meetings.

Role Summary:We are looking for a creative and motivated Marketing & Communications Assistant to join our team. You will support the development and implementation of our external engagement strategy, creating engaging content (videos, podcasts) for our website and social media, reaching diverse audiences.

Why Join Us?

• Impact global public health.
• Collaborate with a passionate team.
• Opportunities for professional growth.

Main Duties

• Generating digital content ideas for inclusion on the website and Members’ Directory, including creating and publishing content on social media and other digital channels, such as videos, podcasts and webinars.
• Supporting the management of social media channels and generating relevant content for social media posts.
• Proactively seeking and exploiting opportunities to promote Network outputs, activities and achievements, co-ordinating the production of content (including video and podcasts) and getting sign-off from appropriate individuals within the Network.
• Promoting and supporting Network events, capturing content and editing this to upload onto the Network’s website and social media platforms.
• Developing, editing and updating the Network’s website content, ensuring that all web and digital content meets with all legal requirements and is compliant to recognised web standards, including accessibility.
• Monitoring and reviewing the Network’s web usage metrics and statistics and adjusting web pages accordingly to increase effectiveness and inform future web developments.
• Collecting and maintaining metric-based information to provide informed insights about the Network’s performance and implementing agreed follow-up digital-based actions.
• Production and development of the Network’s newsletter.
• Supporting the production of marketing materials.
• Any other duties commensurate with the grade.
• The post holder will be required to support equality and values diversity, moderating own behaviour to avoid unfair discriminatory impact or bias on others.

Person Specification

• Educated to A Level standard, or equivalent level 3 qualification such as a Level 3 NVQ, or level 3 national diploma or relevant work experience evidencing the skills and ability to undertake the role.
• Minimum of grade C/4 in Mathematics and English at GCSE or equivalent level 2 qualification.
• Highly proficient IT skills, including the MS Office and website editing software. You should be confident and able to quickly learn new IT skills and software packages as required.
• Demonstrable experience in video and podcast production, including the use of editing software packages such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Photoshop and Premier Pro.
• Proven ability to support film production projects and work productively as part of a small dynamic team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write for different audiences, and to required deadlines.
• Experience of working with content management systems for making website/intranet updates.
• Experience of working with social media in a professional context.

Salary:Full time starting salary is normally in the range £29,647 to £31,460, with potential progression once in post to £35,388.

Contract Type:Fixed Term contract up to November 2027

Informal enquiries can be made to Jo Dean, email:j.e.dean@bham.ac.uk.

Apply by 17 June 2025 through the University of Birmingham website:https://bit.ly/Mar-Comms

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing and Sales

• Industries

  Higher Education

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