Creative and Content Manager - Dubai Campus

• Educated to degree level
• At least 8 years’ professional experience in content, web editing, social media, digital marketing or brand communications roles.
• Demonstrable experience of developing and delivering integrated content and social media strategies.
• Proven experience managing creative and/or multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong leadership and people management skills with experience developing high-performing teams.
• Significant experience commissioning and overseeing creative content production across multiple formats and channels.
• Demonstrable experience overseeing the production of high-quality creative assets across digital and print channels, ensuring consistency with brand guidelines and marketing objectives.
• In-depth knowledge of social media platforms, content trends, digital storytelling and audience engagement strategies.
• Excellent copywriting, editing and proof-reading skills.
• Strong understanding of brand management and experience working within established brand guidelines.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience influencing and collaborating at senior levels.
• Strong analytical skills with experience using insight and performance data to inform strategy and decision making.
• Excellent organisational, project management and prioritisation skills with the ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and maintain exceptional attention to detail.
• Commercial awareness and experience managing external suppliers.
• Excellent communication, presentation and IT skills.
• Experience managing cross-functional projects and campaigns.
• Experience of accessibility and inclusive content best practice.

• Experience within the Higher Education sector and understanding of the macro issues affecting the sector.
• Experience of video-led and multimedia content strategies.
• Knowledge of SEO, digital analytics

With a history dating back to 1821, Heriot-Watt University has established a reputation for world-class teaching and professionally relevant, leading-edge research, which has made it one of the top UK universities for business and industry.

We are a vibrant, forward-looking university, well known for the quality of our degrees with employers actively seeking out our graduates.

Heriot-Watt is also Scotland’s international university with an unsurpassed international in-country presence.

We deliver degree programmes to circa 30,000 students in 143 countries around the world, have a further overseas campus in Dubai and boast the largest international student cohort in Scotland.

At Heriot-Watt we’ve created an environment that nurtures innovation and leadership - where our researchers, staff and students can realise their potential and develop their ambitions.

We are proud of our collegiate atmosphere and integrated teaching and research approach which has helped to build a community of committed academics and highly motivated students.

Our focus on careers delivers results and we’ve an excellent reputation for graduate employability.

In addition to the Edinburgh campus, we currently have campuses in the Scottish Borders, Orkney, Dubai and Malaysia.

For all of our campuses we aim to provide stimulating, supportive environments conducive to effective learning and research, where staff and students can excel.

At Heriot-Watt, we have an established set of values that help us to nurture innovation and leadership, and show our commitment to continuous improvement and development in all our activities.

Our values describe our deeply held beliefs and our community spirit.

They characterise not only how we are as a higher education institution but also frame how we want to be.

Our values are:

• Belong
• Collaborate
• Inspire
• Celebrate

As learning, living and working institution, we use our values as the building blocks of how we go about doing our work and how we each conduct ourselves as members of Heriot-Watt University.

They represent what binds us together as a University community and help us to become the best at what we do.

For full details on our University, please view our website https://www.hw.ac.uk/about.htm

‘How to Apply’

Please submit your CV and a cover letter setting out how you meet the criteria for this role.

Shortlisted candidates may be invited to complete an on-demand-video interview as the first stage of the selection process.

Successful candidates will then proceed to in-person formal interviews at our Dubai campus, where you will be asked to deliver a brief presentation on a relevant topic.

Following the formal interview, the preferred candidate will attend a second interview with senior staff at the Dubai campus before a final offer decision is made.

At Heriot Watt we are passionate about our values and look to them to connect our people globally and to help us collaborate and celebrate our success through working together.

Our research programmes can deliver real world impact which is achieved through the diversity of our international community and the recognition of creative talent that connects our global team.

Our flourishing community will give you the freedom to challenge and to bring your enterprising mind and to help our partners with solutions that can be applied now and in the future.

Join us and Heriot Watt will provide you with a platform to thrive and work in a way that also helps you live your life in balance with well-being and inclusiveness at the heart of our global community.

Heriot-Watt University is committed to securing equality of opportunity in employment and to the creation of an environment in which individuals are selected, trained, promoted, appraised and otherwise treated on the sole basis of their relevant merits and abilities.

Equality and diversity are all about maximising potential and creating a culture of inclusion for all.

The appointment is conditional upon successful completion of all Labor and Immigration formalities, and the start date will need to be delayed if the employment visa is not in place.