DESCRIPTION

Working as part of a UK-wide Reach and Engagement team, the Online Experience team are integral to all departments, ensuring that relevant Innovate UK Business Connect audiences are offered a fully engaging and valuable online experience into the innovation ecosystem in the UK.
Acting as both gatekeepers and brand ambassadors, the team are continually looking for ways to evolve and improve Innovate UK Business Connect’s positioning online.
This is a content management focussed role. As part of the web team, you will work efficiently and effectively with our communications managers, technical experts (Knowledge Transfer Managers) and Event Managers to upload and manage the day-to-day requests across our suite of websites across Innovate UK Business Connect.
This role will be based in the Edinburgh office, with opportunities for home-working and some UK travel to be expected.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

• Online content editorial experience
• Knowledge of SEO
• Experience in online content creation and/or curation
• Experience in managing dynamic websites and continuous flow of web content

SKILLS

• Strong communication skills
• Self-motivated
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to work under pressure
• Understanding of effective content and content design principles in context of websites
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate confidently and build effective relationships.
• Team player with good relationship building and influencing skills; enjoys working in a collaborative manner in an open, honest, and diverse environment.
• Capable of working across organisational boundaries and with senior internal stakeholders.
• Ability and confidence to make sound judgments, drawing on relevant sources of information.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• High level of IT literacy.
• Online data analysis skills (desirable).
• Knowledge of content writing for GEO (desirable).

• As part of the Online Experience team, work with the Web Content Lead, and across Reach and Engagement, to maximise the value of Innovate UK Business Connect’s online estate.
• Ensure content across the systems platforms is up to date, on brief and adheres to company content policy and strategy.
• Manage and deal with Innovate UK static content requests coming from across the business.
• Continually review and update static (how we help, expert profiles etc..) and programme content area’s for iukbc.org.
• Manage and action content requests for iuk.ukri.org.
• Work with marketing and web teams to ensure satellite platform content is on message.
• Assist wider digital team with internal web enquiries.