Student Media Development Coordinator
Who are we?
We are Manchester Students’ Union, the biggest SU in the country, supporting over 40,000 students throughout their time at university. We help to make student life the best it can be by supporting students to campaign for change, creating opportunities to meet new people, providing employment opportunities, providing advice and support and being a safe place on campus.
We are a values-centred organisation that employs around 90 permanent, full-time members of staff. We recruit a wide range of roles throughout the year within all our departments from our Commercial team operating Manchester Academy Venues, 13 Media, Bar 532 & Kitchen and Corridor Coffee to our Student Activities, Student Engagement, Marketing and Communications, Finance, HR and Facilities teams. Our team of around 400 part-time, studying staff are instrumental in providing to support to all departments as well as leading major projects like Student Angels. When you join UMSU, you’ll be immersed in an environment that empowers staff to make great things happen and we're always on the lookout for innovative, passionate, and proactive people to join us.
Our values are really important to us and shape the work that we do every day. As part of our recruitment process, we want you to demonstrate how your experiences, behaviours and skills align with our values. You can find more detailed explanations of our values on our website.
About the role
The Students’ Union is proud to support the growing number of students engaged with our award-winning media and arts groups each year. We’re keen to empower the students in these groups to continue creating media and journalistic content, ensuring they have a great experience whilst doing so. Our core student media portfolio consists of:
- the Mancunion, the student newspaper publishing 10 32-page print editions and an average of over 1000 articles online each year;
- Fuse FM, our student radio station broadcasting an average of 80 hours of content each week; and
- Fuse TV, our student TV station which released 40 productions in the last academic year alone.
Our media groups are led by student committee members – voluntary leaders who provide direction for the group and deliver an annual calendar of activities. The Student Media Development Coordinator plays an important role in ensuring that both the leadership roles and the volunteer opportunities they support are engaging, inclusive, and support students’ progression.
Whilst our media groups are creating their own content, the Student Media Development Coordinator will be surrounded by this buzzing multimedia environment, empowering the student leaders to shape their groups’ creative outputs. This includes ensuring the students leading and contributing to our media groups have access to the right resources, support, and training, and coaching student journalists on investigative journalism and politically or ethically sensitive pieces.
Working with the student leaders to create an annual calendar of activities and training opportunities, the Student Media Coordinator will help to ensure that being a member of our media groups is enjoyable and supports students’ development, whilst focusing on the experience of our student committees in particular.
The Student Media Development Coordinator sits in the Student Development team, whose focus is on providing an outstanding student leadership experience for volunteers participating in a range of activities across campus. The team is always looking to improve the support and resources available to student leaders and create spaces for students to build communities centred around shared interests such as media production.
Ensuring that our media activity is student-led and has the interest of our student community at its heart is important to us, so if you are eager to help students fulfil their creative and journalistic interests, you will thrive in this role. As an opportunity for a graduate, this role will provide an environment for you to build evidence of using your journalism knowledge and leadership and empowerment skills in a multimedia context to advise and coach student volunteers in a hands-on way.
Details
Salary: £24,520 per year
Contract: 12 Month Fixed-Term until July 2026
Hours: 35 hours per week
Eligibility: Open to current students at the University of Manchester and graduating at the end of the 24/25 academic year. Must be eligible to work in the UK at the start of employment.
Our Reward Package
You'll get access to our reward package which you can see here.
Recruitment Guide
We have a guide that explains our full recruitment process. We recommend reading through this before beginning an application.
If you are invited to interview with us, we will share our interview questions in advance so you can prepare your responses. We’re more interested in hearing about your experiences and ideas than in testing your memory, and so we want you to feel as prepared as possible.
Inclusivity and Accessibility
We are committed to equality of opportunity, and we work hard to ensure we appoint based on skill and values.
We particularly encourage applications from Disabled or Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African candidates as these groups are currently underrepresented in our staff team.
If you have any accessibility requirements or require adjustments to support you to apply to work with us, please get in touch. We can offer reasonable adjustments at all stages of our recruitment process.
Recruitment Timeline
Applications opened: 20th May 2025
Applications close: 15th June 2025
Interviews: 4th July 2025
Role Commencing: August 2025
We may close applications early if we receive a high volume of applications. We recommend that you apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. In this case, all applicants who have started an application will be contacted 2 hours before we close the role.
Contact
People Team:
You can contact the People Team with any questions regarding this vacancy or our recruitment process.
Email: jobs.su@manchester.ac.uk
Phone: 0161 306 3279
Hiring Manager: Jennifer Foster
You can contact the hiring manager with any questions regarding this vacancy or our recruitment process.
Email: jennifer.foster@manchester.ac.uk