Digital Content Intern (Employ.ed on campus)

This role will support the School’s External Engagement Team with creating video content to promote the School’s suite of postgraduate taught programmes and showcase our diverse and talented postgraduate student community. The postholder will research existing student recruitment videos, and will work closely with a professional videographer on part of this project. They will also independently create shorter pieces of digital content for the School’s website and social media channels. The postholder will work creatively to storyboard and plan the content we want to create, as well as recruiting and liaising with students participating in the videos. The outputs from this internship will be used on the School’s PG webpages, degree finder pages and social media channels to attract prospective students considering further study of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh.

Employ.ed on Campus is run by the Careers Service in collaboration with University departments and Schools. It offers exclusive summer internships at the University over the summer for 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

Your skills and attributes for success: 

• An interest in marketing
• Excellent creative and organisational skills
• Ability to work independently
• Strong communication skills
• Experience of digital content creation
• Experience of project planning and working to timescales
• Experience of researching and collating information

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As a valued member of our team you can expect: 

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Employ.ed on Campus is run by the Careers Service in collaboration with University departments and Schools. It offers exclusive summer internships at the University over the summer for 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh.

As well as great work experience, the Careers Service provides supporting resources, this is combined with a framework to support the development of participants’ employability and self-reflection with an Edinburgh Award as part of the internship.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to workwebpages

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Employ.ed on Campus internships are ONLY open to 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh based in the UK. You cannot take part if you are a visiting student, or you have already taken part in the programme before.

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 13^th March 2024

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.

Interviews will be held in April.