Marketing Assistant (Graphic Design) - Dubai Campus

Grade: Grade 3

FTE and working pattern: Full-time / 35 hours a week

Division Name: Marketing Assistant (Graphic Design) 

Location: Dubai Campus 

The Marketing, Student Recruitment, Admissions and Communications directorate is at the heart of attracting, engaging and delivering exceptional student and stakeholder experiences. We deliver professional services that support the University’s strategic ambitions. We are seeking an enthusiastic Marketing Assistant to join our team at Dubai Campus. The work will be varied and will require the post holder to provide a fair, friendly, accurate, confidential and timely service. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Equipped with graphic design and video editing skills to develop creatives for Marketing materials across social media channels as well as print branding. 
• Ability to come up with creative concepts and designs to represent and improve brand presence. 
• Develop and maintain high-quality, accurate, dynamic content for the campus, digital (website CMS and CRM), and print channels including video, images, animations, and copy. 
• Support marketing events by capturing and editing high-quality photos that meet University marketing & communications needs. 
• Ensure the brand is represented correctly in line with the guidelines for all marketing materials.
• Skilled in software like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier Pro, and After Effects. 
• Assist the team in promoting HWUD at exhibitions, information sessions, and school career fairs throughout the calendar - work outside of assigned may be required on occasion.
• Administrative or other marketing support to assist with the efficient running of the department, as and when required.
• Video editing and photography skills are an advantage
• Good team player with time management and organizational skills

Essential Qualifications

• Formal education to degree level or equivalent. 
• Experience of developing and delivering creative content on social media, web CMS platforms and in print.
• Exemplary written and spoken English.
• Creative flair and keen attention to detail.
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills

Desirable Qualifications

• Degree in Marketing or Design
• Experience of graphic designing and developing newsletters, ads and adverts.

**Preference will be given to Candidates with Graphic Design experience.  

Heriot-Watt University Values

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’

Interested applicants must submit applications with an updated CV and a Design Portfolio.

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.

At Heriot-Watt we understand that being diverse makes us better which is why we support a culture of respect and equal opportunity, and value diversity at the heart of what we do. We want to increase the diversity of our workplace to underpin a dynamic and creative environment. 
 

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