Earth Fellow: Digital media officer Sustainable Forests and Landscapes
Earth Fellow: Digital media officer Sustainable Forests and Landscapes
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Job Description
Grade UE07: 40497 - 48149 per annum pro-rata (22.19 - 26.38 per hour)
Edinburgh Earth Initiative / Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Part-time: 9 hours per week
Fixed-term: for nine months from September 2025
Earth Fellowships are only open to current postgraduate and PhD students at the University of Edinburgh based in the UK. Please do not apply if you are not a current University of Edinburgh student.
The Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes (CSFL) are looking for a masters or PhD student to contribute to and expand our digital media presence. The project aims to develop regular content about CSFL activity promote CSFL activity on our website and LinkedIn and grow and engage with our audience.
This post will be appointed at Grade UE07 step 1 which is 40497 per annum pro rata (22.19 per hour).
Your skills and attributes for success:
Current University of Edinburgh masters or PhD student in the academic year 25/26.
An interest in the work of the Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes (CSFL).
Strong writing skills and experience writing articles for online publication.
Experience using social media to engage and grow an audience.
Ability to analyse trends in online engagement and make recommendations for future website development and engagement activities.
As an Earth Fellow you will be joining a diverse fun and dynamic team of researchers students and staff all working together to address the global climate emergency. As part of the Earth Fellows programme you will have access to co-working space exciting networking and personal development opportunities and opportunities to contribute towards partnerships and solutions for climate change on a global scale.
Earth Fellows work on individual and team-based projects which contribute to the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Earth Initiatives work on climate change research-led impact innovation engagement and teaching.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary.
- An exciting positive creative challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits such as a generous holiday entitlement competitive pension schemes staff discounts and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on ourstaff benefits page(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
Championing equality diversity and inclusion
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.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on ourright to work webpages(opens new browser tab).
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 11 August 2025.
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.
Interviews will be held in August.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Part-Time
