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SalaryKing’s College London communicates with a global audience daily. Our web presence is central to presenting our learning offer to prospective students, showcasing our world class research and service offer, and telling the King’s story to the world. Our intranet/digital employee experience are equally critical in enabling our staff to understand and engage in life at King’s so they can easily navigate the university. An exercise is currently underway to define and develop a new Digital Workplace for our staff community.
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled website/digital content editor for an exciting new role that will lead our online presence and drive the success of these digital platforms to our key audiences. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of web/intranet/digital workplace content strategy and development and be responsible for overseeing the governance, content development and optimisation of these and their related platforms (e.g. blogs and related sub-sites). The successful candidate will lead a team of dedicated content producers and engage a wider content community to ensure our online content meets audience needs.
The successful candidate will be a confident and experienced digital leader who can demonstrate the governance capability, stakeholder management, team and community leadership required to help us optimise these platforms in line with our objectives set out within King’s Strategy 2026. The post holder will be responsible for building a new digital content team who act as a ‘centre of excellence’ for Digital Experience across King’s website and intranet/digital workplace. This will involve providing content management leadership to, and developing the capabilities of, current in-post digital content editors and supporting a wider digital content community. Working in partnership with technical, communications, content, brand and marketing teams they will hold ultimate responsibility for ensuring that these respective platforms fully meet the needs of King’s audiences (staff, students, researchers, funders, opinion formers etc). They will oversee a clear strategy and improvement roadmap for such platforms using evidence-based insights aligned to King’s ambitions outlined in Strategy 2026 and Vision 2029.
The successful candidate will be based within the Communication & External Affairs directorate and work closely with Brand & Marketing, technical and related teams using Agile methodology to ensure continuous improvement. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work as part of King’s hybrid working model, where you can work between your home and the office throughout the week.
This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.
This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent.
Contact details: Christine Shukis-Brown. christine.brown@kcl.ac.uk
Closing date: 18 February 2024.
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