Graduate Comms Assistant

As you are applying for a role as part of the Grow Your Own Graduate Programme, you will need to contact a member of the Careers+ team to receive support with the application process to ensure the best chance of success. You will also receive communications around future Grow Your Own opportunities and support sessions.

Alternatively, please email [email protected] for more information and to arrange a consultation.

The full-time starting salary is normally £26,266.00 per annum, with progression available in post to £28,995.00 per annum.

Grade: B

Full-time, Permanent.

Birmingham City University is the accountable body for SuperTech WM since 1st July 2023 and is the employer of all roles working within the SuperTech function.

SuperTech WM drives technology and innovation-led growth for the Professional and Financial Services sectors in Birmingham and the West Midlands. As leaders of a powerful ecosystem, we make sure that organisations can access the services and opportunities needed to achieve truly transformational impacts. The SuperTech team is focused on its community – creating the best opportunities for open innovation and ensuring we’re consistently sharing best practice across sectors. We love what we do, and we are expert at it.

Together, we can unlock the future of Next Generation Services for economic success - for our businesses, our region, and throughout the UK.

In the last 18 months we’ve grown significantly, doubling our community members and project partners. With more activities in the pipeline, we’re looking for a capable, well organised, hands-on communications assistant to help deliver our ambitious communications and engagement strategy.

The Communications Assistant will work closely with other SuperTech members to effectively create and deliver online communication assets. Working with Community Engagement Lead they will support in building webpages, drafting and issuing copy, posts, images and videos for social media and press. They will also support the SuperTech team in ensuring operational and admin functions are delivered, coordinating resources in line with programme launches and report building.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Assist in generating content ideas.
• Turn ideas into reality by delivering content – whether that is sharply written material, great imagery or audio-visual film.
• Assist in dissemination of content through owned channels such as newsletters, social media and events.
• Publish content using the web CMS, social media etc.
• Seek to learn how to identify best practice from others and adopt in SuperTech’s external comms.
• Support events and programme activities
• Manage data and contact lists for maximising audience reach and engagement.
• Assist with enquiries and change requests to content to ensure that amends/issues are dealt with swiftly and in line with any given deadlines.
• Support SuperTech with the development of content for programme campaigns, briefing notes for meetings and events.
• Be a hands-on team player when required to deliver programme of activities alongside other SuperTech team members.

About SuperTech

SuperTech was created circa 4 years ago. SuperTech operates as the independent cluster body for the technology disrupting the professional and financial services sector in Birmingham and the wider West Midlands. This means key sectors such as fintech, insuretechm proptech and lawtech and associated services technoliges collectively referred to as ‘proftech’.
These sectors are some of the fastest growing and most influential in the UK, and the West Midlands (WM) has real competitive advantage in our existing business base this is thriving!

SuperTech has a significant leadership role, operating at a regional and national level to support the economic growth of proftech in the UK, and in doing so, ensure that Birmingham/wider WM both contributes towards and benefits from this outcome. Our role is one of championing the sectors top talent. We work with partners and stakeholders to address industry challenges and garner collective effort that make our region the best place possible to base a proftech business. Therefore, to say that marcomms is a critical function in achieving this goal is certainly not to oversate matters and arguably underplays the need underpinning this recruitment.

Learn more about the mission and the work here: www.supertechwm.com.

LinkedIn is the primary social media channel to find out about current and past activity.

Job Description

The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so, and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.

Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.

Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.