IRR Digital Media and Graphic Design Intern (Employ.ed on Campus) Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
Grade UE03: £20,400 per annum pro rata
College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine / Deanery of Clinical Sciences / Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR)
Part-time: 20-35 hours per week, flexible, depending of candidate
Fixed-term: starting 5 June 2023, for 12 weeks
Employ.ed on Campus internships are ONLY open to 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh based in the UK.
We are looking for a graphic designer to support internal and external communications work within the Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR). The intern will work within a small team of public engagement and communications staff to create digital assets and engaging visual ways to share IRR research via social media, websites, and print media.
The Opportunity:
The successful candidate will provide graphic design and communications support to the Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR), 20-35 hours per week. They will take responsibility for managing digital asset and content creation, with overview, direction and instruction from communications colleagues and involvement from academic researchers.
IRR scientists and clinicians are internationally renowned, conducting cutting edge research and regularly publishing in the top biomedical journals. Our small communications team strives to tell their stories to capture the imagination and interest of existing and new audiences. Through these stories, we will grow our reputation, attract the best scientists, and maximise our research funding and investment.
Employ.ed on Campus is run by the Careers Service in collaboration with University departments and Schools. It offers exclusive summer internships at the University over the summer for 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Experience in graphic design and graphic design software packages (e.g. InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator).
- Experience creating content (e.g. for social media, website, print media).
- Excellent ability to think logically and communicate information in a clear concise manner, written, verbally, and visually.
- A working understanding of Microsoft Office suite or similar (e.g. Excel, Word, Teams).
- Self-motivation and the ability to work independently to deliver results, including an ability to manage time, deadlines and multiple tasks.
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Important information for applicants:
The successful applicant will:
- Gain experience working with a team of communications and engagement specialists, increasing communication confidence as well as problem-solving and interpersonal skills.
- Gain experience of working accurately, methodically and to schedule.
- Gain confidence and experience using digital communication tools in a professional environment to tell research stories
Employ.ed on Campus is run by the Careers Service in collaboration with University departments and Schools. It offers exclusive summer internships at the University over the summer for 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh. As well as great work experience, the Careers Service provides supporting resources, this is combined with a framework to support the development of participants’ employability and self-reflection with an Edinburgh Award as part of the internship.
Interviews will be held 19 or 20 April 2023.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Employ.ed on Campus internships are ONLY open to 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh based in the UK. You cannot take part if you are a visiting student, or you have already taken part in the programme before.
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
