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1104765
University of Warwick
24/11/2025
9 Months
29 hours a week
Smart Casual
Pay
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Description
Role
As a Social Media and Communications Intern you will be working for two of the main bodies for Health Education:
- The Medical Schools Council (MSC) is the representative body for UK medical schools. The council is made of the heads of UK medical schools and meets in order to shape the future of medical education in the UK.
- The Dental Schools Council is the representative body for dental schools across the UK and Ireland. It is the authoritative voice of dental education in the UK and Ireland, engaging in representative and policy work on matters relating to dental education as a whole. The Dental Schools Council works to maintain and improve quality in education, clinical training and research.
You will be part of the Outreach Team of the Medical and Dental Schools Council. The team leads our outreach programme, which includes work with young people, teachers, and careers advisers. In partnership with our member medical and dental schools we run summer schools and advise applicants (and those that support them) on applications and admissions to medicine and dentistry.
Duties and responsibilities
- This is an exciting opportunity to join our team. We are looking for an intern to develop and administer our social media accounts and support our regular newsletters.
- We want to increase our social media presence and communications to ensure our audiences of teachers, careers advisers are well supported.
- The aim is that Year 8 to Year 13 school students are signposted to advice, information, and resources on applying to medical or dental school.
- You will have the opportunity to develop new content, and build our audiences through TikTok, X, Facebook and Instagram.
Your Key Responsibilities will be
- We want to grow our social media presence ensuring high levels of engagement.
- Driving research on current benchmark trends and audience preferences, ensuring our engagement responds as appropriate
- Designing and implementing our social media strategy to align with marketing goals
- Ensuring that the social media engagement is meeting the Key Performance Indicators as set by the team
- Generating, editing, publishing and sharing engaging content daily (e.g. original text, photos, videos and news)
- Monitor SEO and web traffic metrics
- Collaborate with other team members to ensure consistent messaging
- Communicate with followers, respond to queries in a timely manner and monitor customer reviews
- Oversee social media accounts’ design (e.g. Timeline covers, profile pictures)
- Maintain our database of contacts and stakeholders, protecting these to comply with GDPR rules
- Suggest and implement new features to develop brand awareness, including promotions and competitions
- Stay up to date with current technologies and trends in social media, design tools and applications
Skills and experience
To apply for this role you must :
- Have a degree (completed or undertaking) or equivalent experience working in higher education.
- Be creativity, be able to deliver creative content (text, image and video)
- Posses excellent IT skills, including the Microsoft suite and to be able to create video and graphic content
- Be able to work as part of a team
- Have excellent copy writing skills
- Have a good understanding of on-line marketing channels
- Be able to propose solutions and solve problems
- Have the motivation to work independently and produce multiple pieces of high -quality work on time
- Have experience of content management
Location
Home
Benefits
We offer many staff benefits that will support your wellbeing and happiness, including:
- 27 days annual leave plus 4 discretionary days plus bank holidays (pro-rata)
- season ticket loans after 6 months
- staff loans
- two pension schemes
- cycle scheme
- salary progression plans
- £45 contribution every two years towards eye tests and the purchase of glasses where required
- virtual medical care – 24-hour access to GP consultations.
How to apply