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Digital Content Editor

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Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

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Accessibility Specialist

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The Sage Group plc, Newcastle upon Tyne

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Digital Content Editor

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Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

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£25000-£30000

ITV Consumer Limited 2024, Shipcote, Gateshead

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Posted 3 days ago, 8 Aug

Concept Artist - UK ONLY

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Silent Games, Newcastle upon Tyne

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Posted 4 days ago, 7 Aug

Apprentice Marketer

£14,722.5 a year

The Little Haven Hotel, South Shields, South Tyneside

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Apprentice Administrator

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NFS 360 Connect, Peterlee, County Durham

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Photographer/videographer...

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Northumberland Wildlife Trust, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne

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Content Editor

£39696-£53873

ITV Consumer Limited 2024, Shipcote, Gateshead

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Posted 2 weeks ago, 26 Jul

Production Journalist

£27909-£38541

ITV Consumer Limited 2024, Shipcote, Gateshead

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Posted 2 weeks ago, 24 Jul

Creative Designer

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Digital Content Editor

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Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

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  • Full time
  • Permanent

Posted 3 days ago, 8 Aug

Job ref: 4530e1a26f1b47dea99af874d992f476

Full Job Description

Salary: £30,805 - £31,6537, with progression to £34,132, per annum, pro rata

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date: 31 August 2025

The Role

Our web estate is a key tool for communicating with our range of audiences, which is why we are looking for a passionate individual to join an established and growing team to support in our digital ambitions for the future.

As a Digital Content Editor, you will plan, create, and edit effective and optimised digital content to support strategic objectives and user requirements. You will also provide support for web projects, managing content workflow and maintaining content guidelines and standards.

Working across digital content design, you will work as part of the Web Content Team to deliver user focused web design and content. As a Digital Content Editor, you will work to integrate best practice throughout the web design process.

The Web Content Team is part of the Marketing Team, and you will work closely with key stakeholders across the University.

If you have any questions about the role Linda Jameson, Web Content Manager, email: # apply please upload a copy of your CV along with a cover letter outlining how your skills and experience meet the person specification as outlined in the job description.

Interviews will be held Sept 23rd, 2025

This is a part-time role,

please refer to the Digital Content Editor (28412) vacancy if you would like for the full-time role.

Key Accountabilities

As part of the Marketing Team, you will work across all aspects of our services, including:

-Digital marketing and campaigns
-Digital transformation: design thinking, digital experience, solution development, service design
-Innovation and emerging technologies
-Brand and reputation management
-Student recruitment
-Business and enterprise
-Research impact

Create and edit effective content to:

-support business goals and meet user needs
-be optimised for search engines and mobile devices
-support digital marketing and social media campaigns
-meet the University's content guidelines and standards.
-Work to develop and implement an effective SEO strategy in relation to our web content.
-Where appropriate, participate in internal and external client meetings, planning sessions and wash-ups.
-To implement user centred content design principles, including web usability, writing for the web, web content creation and user experience design.
-Use content measurement frameworks to evaluate outputs, continuously assessing working methods and processes and implement recommendations for improvement.
-Test and approve content as part of quality assurance and workflow processes.
-Provide support for website usability research such as user testing data write up and analysis, survey analysis and interpretation of web statistics.
-Use research and analytics findings to inform content improvements for the University website and to monitor the effectiveness of the website.
-Provide advice and editorial support to the editor network and colleagues across the University
-Other duties as required to support online and digital requirements.

The Person (Essential)

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

-Practical experience in a similar role.
-Excellent copywriting skills and experience of writing for the web, including the ability to author effective micro-content, write for mobile and practise search engine optimisation techniques.
-Proof reading skills and ability to sub-edit copy into house style.
-Significant experience of the Adobe Creative Suite and other visual design tools
-Demonstrable knowledge and experience of web usability, readability, accessibility and content delivery using best practice.
-Ability to effectively communicate our brand standards through content design.
-Outstanding organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at same time.
-Able to identify and manage internal and external stakeholders, building relationships whilst meeting user needs. You will understand how to work with stakeholders and contribute to building relationship, using evidence to explain decisions made.
-Strong motivation for delivering an excellent customer service.
-Exceptional interpersonal skills with proven success in building relationships, internally and externally, influence and drive decisions.
-Competent at working with colleagues with less of an understanding of digital design and able to help them understand and express their requirements.
-Experience desired in creating effective information architecture for user journeys and wireframes for content design, including using software and websites (ie Figma, Adobe XD, etc.)
-Experience desired in conducting and applying user research to digital design, ensuring a user focussed design
-Knowledge of the Higher Education sector is desirable.

Attributes and Behaviour

-Use clear, concise and accurate communication, tailoring your approach accordingly and encouraging a two-way communication process.
-Work collaboratively with others, play a positive role in the team, establish and grow relationships across projects where different skills, expertise and opinions are valued.
-Generate a range of viable options and decides on an appropriate course of action that best fits user, organisational and area goals.
-Manage time and resources by prioritising and organising effectively.

Qualifications

-Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or possess equivalent industry experience.

Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive university which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society. We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all of our employees and the communities they represent. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams, we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diversity of our university and student population.

At Newcastle University we hold a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality. We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC. We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.

In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe.

Requisition ID: 28469

Practical experience in a similar role.
-Excellent copywriting skills and experience of writing for the web, including the ability to author effective micro-content, write for mobile and practise search engine optimisation techniques.
-Proof reading skills and ability to sub-edit copy into house style.
-Significant experience of the Adobe Creative Suite and other visual design tools
-Demonstrable knowledge and experience of web usability, readability, accessibility and content delivery using best practice.
-Ability to effectively communicate our brand standards through content design.
-Outstanding organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at same time.
-Able to identify and manage internal and external stakeholders, building relationships whilst meeting user needs. You will understand how to work with stakeholders and contribute to building relationship, using evidence to explain decisions made.
-Strong motivation for delivering an excellent customer service.
-Exceptional interpersonal skills with proven success in building relationships, internally and externally, influence and drive decisions.
-Competent at working with colleagues with less of an understanding of digital design and able to help them understand and express their requirements.
-Experience desired in creating effective information architecture for user journeys and wireframes for content design, including using software and websites (ie Figma, Adobe XD, etc.)
-Experience desired in conducting and applying user research to digital design, ensuring a user focussed design
-Knowledge of the Higher Education sector is desirable.

Attributes and Behaviour

-Use clear, concise and accurate communication, tailoring your approach accordingly and encouraging a two-way communication process.
-Work collaboratively with others, play a positive role in the team, establish and grow relationships across projects where different skills, expertise and opinions are valued.
-Generate a range of viable options and decides on an appropriate course of action that best fits user, organisational and area goals.
-Manage time and resources by prioritising and organising effectively., Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or possess equivalent industry experience.

Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive university which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society. We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all of our employees and the communities they represent. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams, we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diversity of our university and student population.

At Newcastle University we hold a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality. We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC. We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.

In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe.

Salary: £30,805 - £31,6537, with progression to £34,132, per annum, pro rata

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

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