Student Placement - Digital Experience - Newcastle upon Tyne

Student Placement - Digital Experience - Sutherland Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE1 8ST, GBSalary: £24,454.04Work hours: Office Hours Monday to Friday, Full Time

Job Description

**Applications are open exclusively to current second-year students at Northumbria University **

ABOUT THE ROLE

Ever noticed how some websites just work and others make you want to give up halfway through? Or wondered how organisations keep their digital presence consistent, accessible and up to date as the tools around them keep changing?

This placement sits right in the middle of that challenge.

As a Student Placement in our Digital team, you'll be editing and publishing web content, supporting UX audits and design, using AI tools to improve the way we work, and helping colleagues across the University get more from our digital platforms. The work you do will shape how thousands of prospective students experience Northumbria online.

You don't need to arrive with all the answers. You do need to be curious, willing to have a go, and genuinely interested in how digital experiences are made, whether you're coming at that from marketing, computing, business or somewhere else entirely.

This is a fixed term placement lasting 12 months, starting in September 2026 and ending in August 2027.

Further information is available in the job description .

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Marketing team is located in Pandon Building at our Newcastle City Campus. You will be working in a busy, multi-branched department with around 175 members of staff. The variation of work creates a vibrant and absorbing environment where you will not only get to work on your own tasks, but collaboratively with your team. You will also play a vital role in other activities that support the objectives of the wider department.

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in the role you will:

• Be well organised with the ability to meet deadlines.
• Have the ability to work on your own initiative, and collaboratively as part of a team.
• Have strong IT skills with experience in the Microsoft Office suite.
• Have excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Have strong attention to detail, with the ability to think creatively and methodically to solve problems.
• Be a current Northumbria second-year undergraduate student, looking for a placement in their third year

Further information is available in the person specification .

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact [email protected]

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now'. Your application should include a covering letter and a CV.

ABOUT US

Join Northumbria University, a research-intensive institution unlocking potential and changing lives locally and globally. Named Times Higher Education's  University of the Year in 2022 and  Modern University of the Year in 2025, we rank top 25 in the UK for research power.  Discover more  about us . 

With over 37,000 students from 140+ countries, we offer world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and an outstanding student experience. We empower our exceptional staff, promoting a positive work-life balance and offering great benefits, including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, generous holiday entitlement and  more . 

Our Northumbria Values, co-created by our team, define who we are: Academic Excellence, Innovation, Inclusivity, Collaboration, and Ambition. Our Behaviours shape our work culture: We listen and learn, support one another, respect everyone, trust each other, and are bold.   

Based in Newcastle upon Tyne and London, we are an on-campus organisation and offer flexible hours and location where the role allows. We pride ourselves on diversity and inclusivity, holding numerous awards for gender and race equality, disability confidence, and research excellence.  We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the  Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.   

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