Content Creator

Overview

UAL Career and Employability are looking for a content creator to create a short video for socials of up to 60 seconds covering our annual careers fair.

Design Elements

Keep consistent with the UAL brand guidelines:
https://www.arts.ac.uk/brand/using-our-brand/video

Background Information

Careers and Employability empowers UAL students and graduates to make a living doing what they love.

We offer practical events, mentoring, funding, advice and temporary work to support UAL students and graduates with their freelance work, artistic practice, business or career.

The Career Fair supports students and graduates with their job search needs and networking opportunities with employers offering creative work.

Hosted by UAL’s Careers and Employability, the fair allows students and graduates to meet and engage with exciting employers, get feedback on their CVs and portfolios, and hear about how companies recruit and what opportunities exist to support their careers.

Purpose

We want to raise awareness of the Careers and Employability Fair, and what we can offer to students and graduates who attend.

Audience

The primary audience for our marketing materials are UAL students and recent alumni. These videos will be shared on UAL social media, potentially the main channels and definitely the Careers and Employability channels.

In order to get the message across to student who might have English as their second language, or have a learning difference which makes reading difficult, the videos need to be clear and visually represent the message.

The secondary audiences are UAL staff – in particular tutors/course leaders who we want to signpost their students to the services offered by Careers & Employability.

Key Messages

• Careers and Employability can help you to make a living doing what you love.

• There are many fulfilling careers to be found in the creative industries.

• We work with a wide demographic of students and alumni.

• We can help you to launch your own business or freelance practice.

Spec

The videos should be filmed in a portrait format (9:16) as they will be shared on Instagram reels/YouTube shorts.

Timeline

Content will need to be filmed at the Careers and Employability Fair on 22 October 2025.
The deadline for the finished reel will be the following week on 28 October 2025.

Our ideal candidate will:

• be familiar with creating content for social media

• have examples of social posts they have created

• be able to film and edit the content independently
  

Additional Information

We want to share the student voice in our content, so we are looking for someone who is keen to present on camera or via voiceover.

To take on this role you must be available to visit the Careers and Employability Fair on 22 of October.

Equality and Diversity

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.