Have you got an eye for a good story and a flair for communicating with different audiences? Would you thrive working in a progressive, inclusive, vibrant environment? The UK’s leading Students’ Union needs you.
Sheffield Students’ Union is looking for an excellent communicator with strong media handling, relationship building, and external communication skills. We care deeply about enhancing the lives of students at Sheffield University and upholding our values. You will play a key role in communicating this work to our members and stakeholders.
Working with staff at all levels, the successful candidate will be responsible for shaping and delivering engaging strategic communication for our organisation. You will be the first point of contact for our elected SU Officers, colleagues, and the press on strategic communications. You will be as adept at producing quality reactive communications, as planning effective strategic communication to inform and inspire our audiences.
You will excel at all forms of writing; from producing compelling impact reports to creating emotive fundraising copy. Highly organised, you will need to be able to deliver at pace, work independently, effectively and proactively.
In return we can offer you opportunities to develop your skills through related training, flexible working arrangements, and a friendly, inclusive working environment. We will play our part in proactively removing barriers. We believe that diversity in all its forms positively impacts our working environment and drives the success of the organisation.
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Working at the Students’ Union
Here at the Sheffield Students’ Union we employ excellent staff. Our staff follow behaviours which have been developed in line with our organisational strategy for staff to aspire to.
Some of the key behaviours we look for in our workforce are:
- Delivers service excellence
- Communicates effectively and works as a collaborative team
- Builds strong working relationships
- Demonstrates social responsibility, recognises ethical and environmental working and complies with legal requirements
- Creates and maintains a ‘can do’ culture
- Demonstrates financial awareness and optimises the use of resources
- Demonstrates creativity and innovation
- Demonstrates effective decision-making and problem-solving
- We welcome applications from those who feel they possess these key behaviours
Creating a more diverse team
Sheffield Students’ Union is committed to creating a fairer, more equal, more inclusive, more diverse and liberated workforce. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff members are currently under-represented at Sheffield Students’ Union
What we are currently doing to create an inclusive workplace –
- Training for Recruiting Managers on Equal Opportunities and Unconscious Bias
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion working group and staff network
- Training and development in ED&I including race equality training
- Accessibility audits
- Level 2 Disability Confident employer
- Flexible working arrangements
- Inclusive policies and procedures
We want to support you to do your best during the application process, so please do get in touch at su-people@sheffield.ac.uk with any questions you may have. Additionally, if you have a disability, mental health condition or any other additional needs (such as dyslexia, autism or anxiety), please do let us know so we can tailor the process to suit you
Your Benefits
You will work in an exciting and progressive environment and enjoy great staff benefits:
- Generous holiday package
- Cycle to work scheme and cycle hub
- The opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
- Flexible working hours
- Workplace pension scheme
- Discounted Sports Sheffield Gym Membership
- Well being Programme
- Opportunity to purchase an NUS card
Hours: 35 hours per week, permanent
Closing date: Monday 11th January 2021 at 5pm
Interviews: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Start Date: As soon as possible
Please visit our website for further information and to apply online.