Marketing Assistant

Job description / Role

Marketing Assistant - With Graphic Design Experience

The Marketing, Student Recruitment, Admissions and Communications directorate is at the heart of attracting, engaging and delivering exceptional student and stakeholder experiences. We deliver professional services that support the University’s strategic ambitions. We are seeking an enthusiastic Marketing Assistant to join our team at Dubai Campus. The work will be varied and will require the post holder to provide a fair, friendly, accurate, confidential and timely service.

Key Duties and Responsibilities
• Equipped with graphic design and video editing skills to develop creatives for Marketing materials across social media channels as well as print branding.
• Ability to come up with creative concepts and designs to represent and improve brand presence.
• Develop and maintain high-quality, accurate, dynamic content for the campus, digital (website CMS and CRM), and print channels including video, images, animations, and copy.
• Support marketing events by capturing and editing high-quality photos that meet University marketing & communications needs.
• Ensure the brand is represented correctly in line with the guidelines for all marketing materials.
• Skilled in software like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier Pro, and After Effects.
• Assist the team in promoting HWUD at exhibitions, information sessions, and school career fairs throughout the calendar - work outside of assigned may be required on occasion.
• Administrative or other marketing support to assist with the efficient running of the department, as and when required.
• Good team player with time management and organizational skills

Requirements

Essential Qualifications
• Formal education to degree level or equivalent.
• Experience of developing and delivering creative content on social media, web CMS platforms and in print.
• Exemplary written and spoken English.
• Creative flair and keen attention to detail.
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills

Desirable Qualifications
• Degree in Business, Marketing or Design
• Experience of graphic designing and developing newsletters, ads and adverts.

About the Company

Heriot-Watt University was the first overseas university to set up in Dubai, offering top quality British education to undergraduate and postgraduate students and executives from the Gulf and further afield.

Heriot-Watt was invited to Dubai to provide specialized programmes in the fields of management, engineering, built environment, food science and fashion.

The University has been operating in Dubai for over a decade and the brand new, purpose-built campus offers excellent facilities and programmes ranging from Masters programmes in disciplines as challenging and diverse as Petroleum Engineering, Construction Project Management, Management, Energy, Information Technology and the world-renowned Edinburgh Business School MBA, to undergraduate degrees in Management, Construction, Quantity Surveying and Engineering.