Communications Content Coordinator

City College Plymouth, Kings Road, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 5QG

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  10 November 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Marketing and communications
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: Full Time | Permanent | £30,236 Per Annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Full Time | Permanent | £30,236 Per Annum

Who we are

Winner of the Best Place to Work at the Tech South West Awards 2025, City College Plymouth offers a culture the College is proud of. Our core values of Respect, Ownership and Integrity help create an environment that supports a passion for teaching and learning. These values guide our work as we enrich our community through knowledge, experience and skills so every student can achieve their best.

As one of the country’s largest providers of quality education and training, City College Plymouth is entering a period of transition to enable us to propel education into the future. We take pride in offering a learning environment and organisational culture that contribute positively to the health, wellbeing and sustainability of our community and enable all our students and staff to achieve their full potential.

The Role

Are you a creative storyteller with a passion for digital content? Join City College Plymouth's Marketing & Student Recruitment team and help bring our College to life through engaging stories, photography, video and social media. You’ll showcase our students, staff, achievements and employer partnerships, creating content that celebrates success, inspires future students and strengthens our reputation across the city and beyond. If you have excellent writing skills, a creative eye and experience producing engaging digital content, we’d love to hear from you. Turn stories into opportunities. Help us show what’s possible at City College Plymouth.

What Will You Bring to the Role

• Adapting: Ability to respond flexibly to changing priorities, deadlines and College activities, adapting digital content to suit different audiences, platforms and communication needs.
• Problem solving: Ability to identify and resolve content-related challenges, apply College guidelines and policies, and find creative solutions to communicate messages effectively and appropriately.
• Learning: Ability to learn from colleagues, students, employers and audience feedback, using these insights to develop engaging content and improve digital communications.
• Persistence: Ability to remain composed when faced with competing deadlines or unexpected challenges, maintaining high standards and making sustained efforts to deliver quality content on time.

What the college offers its staff

Benefits

City College Plymouth will offer you;

• Holiday: 29 days plus bank holidays and College Closure over Christmas.
• Career development opportunities.
• Generous contributions towards your pension.
• Free tea, coffee and lunch in our dedicated staff lounge.

How we recruit

We aim to recruit based on potential, not experience. We are interested in seeing your behaviours in action and how they will help you become successful at City College Plymouth, giving everyone the opportunity to show their potential, regardless of background or experience.

After completing our online application form, you will be asked to complete an online assessment within a few days of this vacancy closing. This assessment asks you no questions at all. Instead, it observes your behaviour and natural strengths in action, with a series of engaging, intuitive tasks. You will receive a report outlining your behaviours once you have completed the assessment, regardless of whether you progress to the next stage or not, providing you with some feedback.

The College welcomes applications from service leavers and the Armed Forces community, and supports those service leavers who are Reservists in any of the Armed Forces.

The College reserves the right to close this advertisement early if sufficient applications have been received.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About City College Plymouth

• Organisation type: FE College, ages 16 to 99
• Education phase: Sixth form or FE college
• Size: No information available
• Age range: 16 to 99
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Email address: recruitment@cityplym.ac.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/city-college-plymouth

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