Digital and Website Coordinator
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're looking for a skilled and proactive Digital and Website Coordinator to implement the redevelopment of the Students’ Union website, ensuring it meets accessibility standards and delivers an engaging, user-friendly experience for all students. In this role, you’ll drive improvements to navigability, design and digital content while offering technical support across the organisation. You’ll work closely with staff and student stakeholders to shape an inclusive online platform that reflects student needs and supports key SU activities like elections, campaigns and events.
Alongside web development, you’ll also provide the daily operations of our IT systems - coordinating the IT Helpdesk, managing IT assets, and ensuring that our network users can work effectively. You’ll play a central role in our upcoming IT migration project, helping to future-proof our systems with minimal disruption. This role also involves line-managing a part-time Digital Assistant who will support you with web content creation and resolving IT tickets. If you're passionate about accessibility, digital engagement, and delivering solutions that support students and staff, we’d love to hear from you.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title: Digital and Website Coordinator
Responsible to: Communications and Digital Support Manager
Responsible for: Digital/IT assistant
Salary: £27,779 (Grade 4.1), per annum, pro-rata
Hours of work: 36.5 hours per week.
Contract: Fixed Term - 2 years.
Location: Falmer House, University of Sussex, BN1 9QF. However, we are supportive of hybrid working with this role expected to work a minimum of 75% of their hours from the office.
Please note that this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Please note that student applications will NOT be considered for full time positions, as it exceeds the recommended hours of work for individuals in higher education. This applies to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
For more details please see the full Job Description and Person Specification.
If you have any questions ahead of submitting your application, please feel free to email Ciaran Clark (ciaran.c@sussexstudent.com) for an informal chat.
KEY DATES
Applications close: 27th June 2025 at 11:00 pm.
Shortlisted notification: 5th July 2025.
Interviews: 10th and 11th July 2025.
Expected start date: As soon as possible.
Please note: As part of the selection process, candidates will be required to complete a task in addition to the formal interview.
COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION
We are committed to maintaining a diverse workforce because we know how important it is to have decision makers and collaborators with varied lived experiences and backgrounds that reflect the range of needs from our diverse student community.
We welcome applications from everyone, and we want to strongly encourage applications from; people with an ethnic minority or Chinese background, people with a disability, people with dependants, and people who identify as LGBTQ+. We conduct anonymous shortlisting and all of our interview panels have Unconscious Bias Training in order to support the above. We also consider flexible working for those with care commitments. If you have any suggestions as to how we could improve our language or application process please let us know.
ABOUT US
We are looking for skilled, friendly and highly motivated people who share our vision and values.
With our vibrant environment and organisational culture, the Students Union is a dynamic workplace only a few places could match. Led by students we are all about working with students to help them get the most out of their time here at the University of Sussex or Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
Whilst being located on Sussex Campus - close to Brighton & Hove - we are separate from the University, something that is crucial to our campaigning and lobbying work.
According to last year's Staff Engagement Survey, the best things about working here is the supportive environment with great people who you can trust and respect as well as the ability to work flexibly for most roles.
Although we have different departments we think of ourselves as one big team and are often working all together on projects or helping each other out at big events such as Freshers week or Elections.
Whilst we cannot really brag about offering the most competitive pay, as is often the case in the third sector, we feel we have a lot of other things going for us, which more than make up for our less competitive salaries.
Working on Sussex Campus and for the SU has lots of perks: Our staff get access to enhanced time off, which normally amounts to an extra 6 days leave in addition to 20 days of annual leave per year, and bank holidays. We also organise regular staff socials and events throughout the year and pride ourselves on having numerous learning and development opportunities for all our roles and creating a supportive workplace with regular 1 to 1s, an employee assistance programme and professional health services. You can read up more about our benefits below or on our benefits package.
If this sounds like the workplace you’d like to join, we would love to receive your application and get to know you!
STAFF AND APPLICANTS WITH LONG TERM CONDITIONS
The Students’ Union aims to implement reasonable adjustments for all staff and applicants with disabilities, creating a culture of cooperation, shared responsibility and proactiveness to ensure equitable access to jobs. We want to make sure everyone is supported in our selection processes, and are equipped to work safely and get as much as possible out of their role as possible.
For more information about the support we have available follow this link
STAFF BENEFITS
GETTING PAID
Everyone working in the UK needs a National Insurance number in order to get paid. If you are a UK citizen you will automatically have this, however if you are not a UK Citizen you might want to apply for an NI number at the same time as you apply for a job so there is no delay in your payments. You can do so using this link: https://www.gov.uk/apply-natio....
Please note you cannot apply for a National Insurance Number until you're in the UK, but this should not stop you from completing your application for this role.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS
Due to legal regulations we have to ensure that everyone is eligible to work in the UK and this would be done by us checking and making a copy of the correct original identification/documentation before your first day of work. However, we do not ask for your eligibility to work during the application or interview stage. You may also be limited in the number of hours you would be allowed to work.
Find out more information about applying to work in the UK. In any case, we would encourage anyone to apply for a job in one of our friendly departments to give yourself the chance of being selected, and we would look to see the appropriate original documents before your first day of work.
MORE INFORMATION
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