Student Placement - Corporate / Marketing Communications

Are you a current second-year student looking for a placement that gives you real, hands-on experience across a range of marketing and communications activities? If so, this is your chance to work at the heart of a busy, creative marketing team. In this dynamic role, you'll support the Corporate Marketing and Communications team in the development and delivery of strategic campaigns, content, and communications that bring the University's brand to life. As a valued member of the team, you'll dive into a diverse mix of initiatives-contributing fresh ideas, assisting across all areas of marketing and communications activity, and helping to shape communications that resonate with audiences and reflect the University's vision and values. In this broad, varied role you'll write copy, support campaign activity, contribute to events, help manage our digital asset library, and bring a fresh student perspective to everything we do. If you're someone who thrives on variety and wants to build a portfolio that reflects real marketing practice, this placement is for you. This placement is a fixed term role lasting 12 months, starting in September 2026 and ending in August 2027. Further information is available in the ABOUT THE TEAM The Marketing team is located in Pandon Building at our Newcastle City Campus. You will be working in a busy, multi-branched department with around 175 members of staff. The variation of work creates a vibrant and absorbing environment where you will not only get to work on your own tasks, but collaboratively with your team. You will also play a vital role in other activities that support the objectives of the wider department.

To be successful in the role you will:

• Be well organised with the ability to meet deadlines.
• Have the ability to work on your own initiative, and collaboratively as part of a team.
• Have strong IT skills with experience in the Microsoft Office suite.
• Have excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Have strong attention to detail, with the ability to think creatively and methodically to solve problems.
• Be a current Northumbria second-year undergraduate student, looking for a placement in their third year.
  
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With over 37,000 students from 140+ countries, we offer world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and an outstanding student experience. We empower our exceptional staff, promoting a positive work-life balance and offering great benefits, including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, generous holiday entitlement and . Our Northumbria Values, co-created by our team, define who we are: Academic Excellence, Innovation, Inclusivity, Collaboration, and Ambition. Our Behaviours shape our work culture: We listen and learn, support one another, respect everyone, trust each other, and are bold. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne and London, we are an on-campus organisation and offer flexible hours and location where the role allows. We pride ourselves on diversity and inclusivity, holding numerous awards for gender and race equality, disability confidence, and research excellence. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.