Salary: £32,006 per annum (with progression up to £35,331 per annum)
Grade: D
Contract: Full-Time, Permanent

Web Officer – Join Our Product Team

We're looking for a skilled and experienced web and digital professional to join our Product Team, where you’ll play a key role in bringing our courses to market.

Working collaboratively, the Web and Product Team ensures the consistent and effective presentation of course and subject information across a variety of platforms, all aimed at supporting student recruitment at Birmingham City University (BCU).

As a Web Officer, you’ll help maintain our external website, manage content requests, and contribute to strategic web-based projects. You’ll also support colleagues across the university by handling website approvals and upholding content standards.

This role involves close collaboration with academic staff, faculty teams, and stakeholders in the Marketing and Communications department.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and implement website content updates from various stakeholders.
Continuously improve how course information is displayed to prospective students.
Lead and contribute to key annual web projects.
Work alongside Product Team colleagues to develop processes for maintaining course and subject information across platforms.
Build and maintain positive relationships with faculties across the university.

Requirements

Proven experience creating web content, with a strong understanding of copywriting and page layout.
Working knowledge of HTML and CSS.
Familiarity with uploading digital content across multiple platforms.
Strong copywriting skills, with an emphasis on SEO and user engagement.
Basic graphic design skills related to webpage layout and presentation.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.

Why Join Us?

Be part of a diverse, inclusive, and supportive community.
Make a meaningful impact on the student experience and university growth.
Enjoy a dynamic role with room for creativity and leadership.
Join a forward-thinking institution at the heart of Birmingham
Explore the facilities and green spaces you'll help care for on our interactive map

Join us and be part of something truly rewarding.

Please download the Job Description below for further information:

Job Description

Birmingham City University is deeply committed to equality, diversity, and inclusivity at all levels in the organisation, and to addressing underrepresentation in our workforce to ensure we are truly representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds and communities for this role, and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic applicants.

The University is proudly Disability Confident. This means amongst other things that we commit to offering a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who fully meet the essential criteria for each role.

The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.

At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.

Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.

Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.