Student Casual – Student Content Creator – External Relations – Grade 3 – 906836
At a glance
Entry-level Content Creation role at UoB Employee. United Kingdom · part-time.
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What you'll do
- Create and present videos for Chinese social channels, appearing on camera and interviewing students, staff, or visitors
- Edit footage for Chinese audiences by adding subtitles, trimming clips, and improving sound and picture quality
- Develop content ideas for prospective students, then track Chinese-platform trends, mentions, and competing posts
- Brief and complete graphic design work, including social posts and other communications materials
What you bring
- Current enrolment at the University of Birmingham is required, with continuing study eligibility for this role
- Fluent written and spoken Chinese, plus confidence producing content for social platforms
- Video editing ability, with copywriting, proofreading, content editing, or design experience supporting your application
- You can organise competing tasks, work independently, collaborate effectively, and deliver carefully under deadline pressure
Who this fits
This suits a continuing University of Birmingham student interested in Chinese social media, video, photography, design, presenting, or storytelling. You will work part time for fifteen to twenty hours weekly, subject to the term-time cap and any required study-related approvals. The role runs from early November through late January and requires a right-to-work check before starting. A pre-interview task is part of the selection process.
From the employer
Please note that this vacancy may be taken down early depending on the number of applications received. We advise you to submit your application promptly.
Our offer to you
At the University of Birmingham, Worklink is the dedicated student employment service which helps students to find flexible, well paid part-time roles that fit around your studies. Each year, the University invests more than £2.5 million to employ 3,000 of our own students in a wide range of roles, supporting our student community into part-time work. Roles available via Worklink include a range of positions, including administrative roles, support staff such as cleaners or baristas, research roles and many more.
Jobs through Worklink help you to gain work experience, develop skills relevant for your future career, and improve your soft and hard skills in a professional setting. Enhance your CV and get valuable experience ready for graduate roles and feel connected to your university and local community.
Our jobs are flexible and can be scheduled around your academic commitments, so you can focus on your studies first. Our team are passionate about supporting students into work. Worklink are based in a central location on campus which is easily accessible for students and can also be contacted online.
Find out more about working through Worklink here or via the student intranet.
Job Context
The Communications and Reputation department is responsible for enhancing the University’s reputation by promoting its strengths and positive messages through a variety of communication channels to a wide range of audiences.
Role Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity for continuing students (1st & 2nd years, 3rd years continuing to a Masters) with a keen interest in marketing, content creation, video editing, and design. Student content creators will act in variety of capacities, to be the face of the student life at the university, working alongside the Communications and Reputation Team to deliver high quality content for our audiences in China. The role purpose will be to create content for the University’s Chinese social media channels as well as other institutional university channels as required. Particularly, we are looking for students who can contribute in the following ways:
- Create ideas for content based on audience needs and University outcomes.
- Video and graphical editing.
- Photography and videography.
- Presenting/participating in videos.
- Comfortable being on camera and engaging others.
The broad nature of the role means that there are several ways you will be able to contribute to the Communications and Reputation Team. You will have particular expertise/interest in creating content for Chinese social media, particularly Rednote. You may also have some experience in graphic design, including the creation of posts for social media.
The role will be on a part-time basis, with 15-20 hours per week being required. We particularly welcome applications from students of all backgrounds, representing the fantastically diverse student body within the university.
Main Duties
- Create and/or present video content for the University’s official Chinese social media channels.
- Conduct interviews with students, staff, or visitors to highlight diverse campus perspectives.
- Edit videos, including adding Chinese subtitles, trimming footage, and enhancing audio and visual quality to suit Chinese platforms and audiences.
- Assist with brainstorming and planning content ideas that resonate with prospective students and Chinese-speaking audiences.
- Monitor trending topics, brand mentions, and competitor content on Chinese platforms, and provide regular reports and insights.
- To brief in and undertake graphic design projects as required.
Other reasonable requests within the Communications and Reputation team.
Required knowledge, skills, qualifications & experience
- Must be fluent in writing and speaking Chinese.
- Proficient in video editing.
- Experience or an interest in exploring AI-generated tools is desirable.
- Photography skills are desirable.
- Ability to prioritise workload and anticipate problems, to progress work thoroughly and reliably sometimes under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Keen interest in current social media trends, as well as experience in the production of content for a variety of platforms.
- Experience of copywriting, proofreading, and content editing.
- Ideally experience of graphical design packages and associated technologies (e.g. Adobe software).
- Strong sense of creativity and storytelling.
- Excellent interpersonal, organisational, spoken, and written communication skills to deal effectively, confidently, and appropriately with students and staff at all levels.
- High levels of attention to detail. Responsible, responsive, and able to work independently.
An effective team player who can demonstrate that they have not only worked successfully as part of a team, but that they are able to self-direct workload and priorities.
N.B. The broad variety of roles available means that candidates do not require all the above experience/qualities, rather fitting to one or more areas of the roles.
Further Information
For candidates who meet the eligibility requirements of the role, you will be asked to complete a pre-interview task. We encourage you to complete this as soon as possible once you have been contacted.
For any informal queries, please contact Xiaomei Huang (x.huang.2@bham.ac.uk)
View our staff values and behaviours here
Valuing excellence, sustaining investment
We value diversity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working.
The University of Birmingham restricts all students to working up to 15 hours per week during term time. If your application is successful and your course does not follow the usual academic term timetable (e.g. PGT, PGR or PhD student), you and your supervisor must formally agree vacation periods if this role exceeds 15 hours per week. In addition to this, please be aware if you are an International student you will be required to apply to the Registry for the appropriate Authorised Absence.
You are only eligible to apply to this role if you are a current University of Birmingham student. If you are not a University of Birmingham student your application will not be considered.
To work you will need to carry out a right to work check. These checks will need to be completed prior to work commencing
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