The Role
We`re looking for a Digital Content Executive to join our Marketing team at Unite Students.
Supporting the Digital Content Manager, you`ll help manage and optimise website content through our CMS, ensuring a seamless and engaging customer journey across web, app and digital channels. From publishing campaign content to improving SEO and user experience, you`ll play a key role in driving engagement and conversions through high-quality digital content.
- Manage and publish website content through our CMS, ensuring accuracy and brand consistency.
- Create and update engaging digital content including copy, imagery, video and SEO metadata.
- Optimise content for SEO, accessibility, usability and conversion performance.
- Collaborate with Marketing teams and external agencies to deliver new content and enhancements.
- Support website testing and continuous improvements to user experience and performance.
- Monitor content performance and identify opportunities for optimisation and innovation.
- Help repurpose content across digital channels including app, email and social media.
- Stay up to date with digital content trends, SEO developments and CMS functionality.
- Experience using CMS platforms (Contentful experience is a bonus).
- Good understanding of SEO, UX and digital content best practices.
- Strong copywriting and content creation skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders effectively.
- Analytical mindset with confidence using performance data and insights.
- A proactive, creative and collaborative approach to work.
- Basic HTML knowledge or CMS coding experience is desirable.
At Unite Students, we`re passionate about creating an inclusive, collaborative culture where everyone can thrive. You`ll join a supportive team, work on meaningful digital experiences and have opportunities to grow and develop your career.
What You`ll Get in Return
- A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
- 25 days` paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service
- A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save
- Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends
- Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more!
About Unite Students
Founded in 1991, Unite Students is the UK`s leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 23 leading university towns and cities, with 70,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.
Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn`t just what we do but who we are.
People make Unite Students. Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.
Room for Everyone
We`re proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we`re passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what`s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.
We are US.
