Communications Officer, Trash-2-Cash

The opportunity

You will join the team for the EU-funded Horizon 2020 innovation project ‘Trash-2-Cash: Utilising zero-value waste textiles and fibres with design-driven technologies to create high quality products’ (grant agreement no. 646226), based at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and delivered in collaboration with a consortium of project partners. In the ‘Trash-2-Cash’ project, growing problems with paper fibre waste from the paper industry and textile fibre waste, originating from a continuously increasing textile consumption, will be solved through design-driven innovation. This will be performed by using the waste to regenerate fibres that will be included into fashion, interior and other high-value products.  

The Communications Officer will play a crucial role in raising the profile of the ‘Trash-2-Cash’ project to a range of audiences through a variety of channels. You will generate content for the project’s central communications channels, and support the communications strategy by gathering information from the consortium and writing press releases and other publicity materials. You will post content to the ‘Trash-2-Cash’ website and social media accounts, monitoring success and assisting with statistics for the Communications report, and liaise between the Principal Investigator, Researchers and the project Consortium to plan and deliver all communications activity.   

About you

You will be qualified to undergraduate degree level and have experience of working in a communications or media team role. You will have excellent writing skills, with demonstrable experience of gathering information, producing engaging and concise copy for a range of channels and audiences, and experience of updating websites via content management systems.  You will preferably have an interest in textiles and/or design and sustainability, and experience of working with the Adobe Creative Suite.  

In return, University of the Arts London offers generous leave, an attractive pension scheme and a commitment to your continuing personal development and training in an environment that encourages excellence, creativity and diversity. Relocation assistance is available.

If you have any queries you may contact ADS Recruitment Team via email ADSRecruitment@arts.ac.uk or telephone: 020 7514 9627.