Total 6 PR / Media / Communications job vacancies in Oxford

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Teaching Assistants and Communication Support Workers (CSW) are an essential part of the educational team working with children and young people who are deaf in Oxfordshire educational settings. TA/CSWs work in the Deaf and Hearing Support Resource Bases at New Marston Primary School and The Cherwell School (secondary), and with post-16 students who have a sensory impairment (deafness or vision impairment) in the Colleges of Further Education in Oxfordshire with a base at City of Oxford College.

*the terms deaf/deafness refer to all levels and types of hearing loss

About the Role

We are seeking Teaching Assistants or Communication Support Workers with a calm, encouraging and positive manner to work with deaf children and young people in the Deaf and Hearing Support Resource Bases at New Marston Primary School, Cherwell School in Oxford or City of Oxford College. No previous knowledge of working with deaf pupils is required.

The deaf pupils supported by the base have a range of communication modes and learning styles.Some speak and listen as their primary mode of communication, some use sign language together with speaking and listening, and some are British Sign Language users.

There are good public transport links and parking is also available.

The role is permanent and is term time only (39 weeks per year).

About you

You will have the ability to communicate sensitively and appropriately with children, young people, families, and colleagues.You work positively as part of a team but also feel confident to work independently and take initiative when needed.

You have a good level of basic education (e.g. Grade 4 or above in GCSE Maths and English or equivalent) or equivalent professional experience.

Working closely with specialist Teachers of Deaf Children and Young People (ToDs), mainstream staff and other professionals to improve outcomes, your aim will be to enable access to the curriculum and to facilitate full inclusion for the pupils you work with.

Ideally, you will have experience of working with children and young people with SEN or disability, but training will be given.We are particularly interested if you have a qualification in communicating with deaf people (preferably Level 2 CACDP or above, or a level of fluency in BSL at a comparable stage). If you have an interest in learning sign language, this role offers opportunities to develop these skills.

You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be resilient, creative, and adaptable.

No previous knowledge of working with deaf pupils is required but would be an advantage.A passion for working with children and young people to make a difference and improve their access to learning is essential.

Rewards and benefits

• The role is term time only (39 weeks per year) with 5.64 holiday weeks paid (i.e. 44.64 paid weeks per year)
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeingsupport
• Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%
• Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
• Great learning and development opportunities tosupport your ongoing development

Does this sound like you? Would you like to know more?

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Becky Roberts, Area Team Manager, 07770 588817 or rebecca.roberts@oxfordshire.gov.uk

You are also most welcome visit any of the bases, meet our friendly and caring team, and the children we support, before you apply.

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As a DisabilityConfident employer, we guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job.We also guarantee interviews to care leavers who have completed further education and who meet the essential criteria for the job. For those leaving care without any further education, we guarantee an interview for our apprenticeships.We are also committed to helping and supporting those transitioning from HM ArmedForces to civilian life and guarantee an interview for those demonstrating the essential criteria for the role, within three years of leaving the service.

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Join our team!

Are you a passionate Hospitality Manager? If so, we'd love you to join our team!

This role sits within our Business & Industry division, catering for customers and those within the workplace. Taking care of catering and dining services, we're one of the industry's largest and most innovative contract caterers. With menus available to pre-order and with in-app payment, Elior B&I have matched the tastes and dietary requirements of our four million daily customers with 21st-century tech.

What you'll be doing...

Responsibilities:

• Responding appropriately to incoming enquiries via phone and email and chasing to a conclusion
• Conducting site show rounds
• Liaise with external suppliers, prepare quotes, contracts and event proposals for events of all types, including internal and external
• Produce event detailed planners (including catering, cost, invoicing details, itinerary, room set up, entertainment, AV etc.)
• Conducting menu tasting while planning the event with the client
• Actively identify marketing and promotion opportunities
• Develop events from proposal right up to delivery, including set, communicate and maintain project timelines and priorities
• High end Hospitality experience preferrable

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday (07:30 to 15:30)

What can you bring?

In this role:

• Experience as an event manager
• Skilled in project management and event planner
• Knowledge of KPIs and marketing techniques for event management
• Outstanding communication and negotiation ability
• Customer service orientation
• BSc/BA in PR, marketing, hospitality management or related field is preferred

Our way of saying thank you...

At Elior, we strive to ensure that our colleagues feel appreciated & rewarded, which is why we offer generous rewards & benefits in exchange for your dedicated efforts.

FREE On-Site Lunches: Enjoy complimentary lunches, saving you time & money while ensuring you stay nourished & energised throughout the day.

Support Your Way of Life:

• Flexible Working: We offer full-time & part-time roles, with varying shift patterns across the business. Allowing colleagues the flexibility to balance their personal & professional commitments
• Relax & recharge with 28 days holiday, increasing to 31 days after two years service
• Family Leave: Prioritise family commitments with flexible leave options
• Paid Charity Leave: Make a positive impact with two additional paid days for charity work

Big Enough for Growth, Small Enough to Connect:

• Opportunities for career progression while developing a close-knit community

Supporting You Through Life's Ups & Downs:

• Access mental health support & comprehensive wellbeing benefits

Keeping Finances & Wellbeing in Mind:

• Life assurance, workplace pension schemes, discounts, cashback, entertainment, leisure discounts, & a cycle-to-work scheme

Why it's great to work for us...

Elior is a multi-award-winning people business and one of the UK's leading contract caterers, with over 10,000 colleagues operating across a diverse range of sectors including:

• Workplaces & Office Space
• Sporting Venues & Stadiums
• Attraction & Heritage Sites
• Public Sector & Defence
• Health, Care & Hospitals
• Schools, Colleges & Universities

Along with our purpose of enriching lives everywhere, every day, we're committed to an inclusive culture and want our people to feel appreciated, supported, and fulfilled.

That's why 85% of colleagues tell us how proud they are to work for us!

Elior Celebrates Equality Our aim is to celebrate a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion, continuing to make Elior a great place to work!

Every colleague has a distinctive set of values, skills, and aspirations. To ensure that we attract, develop, and retain best people from the widest possible talent pool we're committed to providing an inclusive environment where our colleagues fulfil their potential and have the opportunity to succeed.

Join our team!

Are you a passionate Hospitality Manager? If so, we'd love you to join our team!

This role sits within our Business & Industry division, catering for customers and those within the workplace. Taking care of catering and dining services, we're one of the industry's largest and most innovative contract caterers. With menus available to pre-order and with in-app payment, Elior B&I have matched the tastes and dietary requirements of our four million daily customers with 21st-century tech.

What you'll be doing...

Responsibilities:

• Responding appropriately to incoming enquiries via phone and email and chasing to a conclusion
• Conducting site show rounds
• Liaise with external suppliers, prepare quotes, contracts and event proposals for events of all types, including internal and external
• Produce event detailed planners (including catering, cost, invoicing details, itinerary, room set up, entertainment, AV etc.)
• Conducting menu tasting while planning the event with the client
• Actively identify marketing and promotion opportunities
• Develop events from proposal right up to delivery, including set, communicate and maintain project timelines and priorities
• High end Hospitality experience preferrable

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday (07:30 to 15:30)

What can you bring?

In this role:

• Experience as an event manager
• Skilled in project management and event planner
• Knowledge of KPIs and marketing techniques for event management
• Outstanding communication and negotiation ability
• Customer service orientation
• BSc/BA in PR, marketing, hospitality management or related field is preferred

Our way of saying thank you...

At Elior, we strive to ensure that our colleagues feel appreciated & rewarded, which is why we offer generous rewards & benefits in exchange for your dedicated efforts.

FREE On-Site Lunches: Enjoy complimentary lunches, saving you time & money while ensuring you stay nourished & energised throughout the day.

Support Your Way of Life:

• Flexible Working: We offer full-time & part-time roles, with varying shift patterns across the business. Allowing colleagues the flexibility to balance their personal & professional commitments
• Relax & recharge with 28 days holiday, increasing to 31 days after two years service
• Family Leave: Prioritise family commitments with flexible leave options
• Paid Charity Leave: Make a positive impact with two additional paid days for charity work

Big Enough for Growth, Small Enough to Connect:

• Opportunities for career progression while developing a close-knit community

Supporting You Through Life's Ups & Downs:

• Access mental health support & comprehensive wellbeing benefits

Keeping Finances & Wellbeing in Mind:

• Life assurance, workplace pension schemes, discounts, cashback, entertainment, leisure discounts, & a cycle-to-work scheme

Why it's great to work for us...

Elior is a multi-award-winning people business and one of the UK's leading contract caterers, with over 10,000 colleagues operating across a diverse range of sectors including:

• Workplaces & Office Space
• Sporting Venues & Stadiums
• Attraction & Heritage Sites
• Public Sector & Defence
• Health, Care & Hospitals
• Schools, Colleges & Universities

Along with our purpose of enriching lives everywhere, every day, we're committed to an inclusive culture and want our people to feel appreciated, supported, and fulfilled.

That's why 85% of colleagues tell us how proud they are to work for us!

Elior Celebrates Equality Our aim is to celebrate a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion, continuing to make Elior a great place to work!

Every colleague has a distinctive set of values, skills, and aspirations. To ensure that we attract, develop, and retain best people from the widest possible talent pool we're committed to providing an inclusive environment where our colleagues fulfil their potential and have the opportunity to succeed.

Location: Oxford OX1 1XX (hybrid working option available)
Salary: £26,000 - £28,000 per year, dependent on experience (with a 6-month probationary period) plus quarterly bonuses
Contract: Full time, Permanent, 09:00-17:30, Monday to Friday

Due to continued growth and expansion, we are recruiting for an ambitious Customer Success Executive who wants to grow quickly in an entrepreneurial environment. GWI is expanding our Customer Success team in line with some exciting changes within the company, which will involve offering even more support to our subscribers than we do already to help transition them under our new company strategy.

Global Water Intelligence is an ambitious company with around 70 employees spread between Oxford, Austin (Texas) and Shanghai (China). We publish market leading magazines, databases, and reports on the international water industry. Additionally, we run a series of successful international events. 

The Customer Success Executive will be working on the publishing side of the business, focusing on supporting our highly successful Sales Team who sell databases (such as GWI WaterData & GWI DesalData), subscription publications (GWI Magazine) and industry specific network platforms (UltraPure Micro). The Customer Success team works closely with the Sales Team to help maintain our existing subscriber base by offering training and support to all our subscribers, answer customer queries regarding our data and services, report on usage analytics and identify patterns in the customer journey.

Benefits

• We are global: Our market is totally international, and we need to reflect that. We travel a lot and around 40% of our staff don’t come from the UK. 
• We work for each other: We do work hard, but not out of fear or greed. It is because we care for each other, and it lightens the load of everyone if we all pull together. 
• We balance the commercial with the idealistic: We are passionately committed to addressing the world’s water challenges, but we can only do what we do because we are a profitable business. 
• GWI employees are enrolled on a company pension plan and receive a holiday allowance of 25 days per year. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to attend relevant training courses and conferences to develop within the role. 

Requirements

The successful Customer Success Executive will have:

• Good verbal and written communications skills
• Professional attitude and excellent telephone communication skills
• Strong customer service and listening skills
• Good computer literacy skills
• Be enthusiastic and dependable
• Effective time management
• Analytical and presentation skills


Responsibilities

As a Customer Success Executive at GWI, your responsibilities will include:

• Training and supporting existing subscribers on our different products
• Understanding the platforms to a high level to answer queries about the data and analysis we provide
• Communicating customer feedback between different teams within GWI such as the content and marketing teams
• Analysing usage data to produce reports for both client and internal use
• Analysing user behaviour to map out the customer journey
• Being responsible for renewing subscriptions

The successful candidate will be able to hit the ground running and develop a rapid understanding of our product portfolio, related markets and the value proposition to different client segments.

Applicant instructions:
Please submit a CV and a covering letter to recruitment@globalwaterintel.com explaining in fewer than 200 words why you are applying for the job and what you think you can contribute to us that would make a real difference.

The closing date for applications 3 July 2024.

We encourage you to apply early, as we may close the vacancy if we receive sufficient applications.

We will not consider any CVs sent without covering letters, or applications with generic covering letters not tailored to the vacancy.

Please note that due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to offer feedback on any applications not carried through to the interview stage.

No agencies please.

Location: Oxford OX1 1XX (hybrid working – minimum 3 days in office per week)
Salary: £28,000 per year (six-month probationary period)
Contract: Full time, Permanent, 37.5 hours per week

Global Water Intelligence (GWI), the leading publisher and events organiser serving the international water industry, is looking to hire inquisitive and resourceful Research Graduate Trainees to join our team.

As a Research Graduate Trainee, you will get the opportunity to try different activities during the initial six-month training period to allow you to develop a full picture of our business. Our objective is to develop successful applicants into roles that best match their skills and provide the chance to carve their own niche within our teams. Relevant training will be provided.

Responsibilities:

· Producing high-quality written content: Fewer people have time to read these days, so if you are going to write content, you have to write well. You will need to identify key information through research and analysis, organise your thoughts and express them concisely. Don’t be deterred if English is not your first language. We can edit for English.
· Interviewing people, building relationships and networks: Our business is built on speaking to the right people and asking the right questions. We need people who can proactively network with individuals to gather ideas and information.
· Collecting and interpreting data: We are the main source of data for the international water industry. With that responsibility comes important skills: persistence in sourcing and gathering new data, squeezing spreadsheets until they tell a story and presenting it effectively through data visualisation.
· Communicating ideas: People increasingly don’t consume information as text: they take it in visually. Feeding this kind of consumer is a challenge. It requires staff who can synthesise complex issues into simple graphics and who are confident presenting and explaining our content in webinars.
· Managing projects: Most of what we do is a team effort, but getting great people to work well together is a skill in itself. We need people who are organised, empathetic communicators to manage projects and bring everything together.
· Working across teams towards wider business growth: Your work will always be part of a bigger picture – in taking ownership of your projects you will collaborate with other teams from across the business (sales, marketing, and design) to ensure everything we do contributes towards the company’s vision and goals.

Person requirements:
We do not expect any experience in the water industry, but we are looking for candidates who have pursued a rigorous course of study at university. Although we are looking for specific skills, we don't expect them all in one person: if you think you might be good at two or three, we would like to hear from you.

· Rigorous research skills, demonstrating an inquisitive mind, critical thinking, and attention to detail.
· Strong writing skills with the ability to tell a story and highlight key information concisely. Experience in an editorial environment is advantageous.
· Good data collection and analysis skills, with the ability to translate relevant data trends into interesting stories. Experience in Excel is advantageous.
· Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, including taking initiative, showing ownership of tasks, and managing your time.
· Project management skills, including scoping projects, delegating tasks and collaborating with different teams.
· Excellent verbal communication skills, particularly in interviewing and building relationships with external contacts, and presenting stories and key ideas to a wider audience.
· Ability to understand the bigger picture and the commercial angle of your tasks, and how your work contributes to wider business goals.
· Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team.
· Foreign language skills (especially German and French) are desirable.

Additional benefits:
• International travel, opportunity to regularly attend international water conferences
• Company pension plan
• Holiday allowance of 25 days per year (pro rata)
• Opportunity to attend relevant training courses and conferences to develop within the role

To apply:
Please submit a CV and a covering letter to recruitment@globalwaterintel.com explaining in fewer than 200 words why you are applying for the job and what you think you can contribute to us that would make a real difference.

The closing date for applications is 12 January 2024.

We will discard the applications which do not come with covering letters. We will then draw up a shortlist of the strongest candidates to whom we will send a skills test. On the basis of this test, we will narrow the field down to applicants for interview.

Please note, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to offer feedback on any applications not carried through to the interview stage.

Location: Oxford OX1 1XX (hybrid working – minimum 3 days in office per week)
Salary: £28,000 per year (six-month probationary period)
Contract: Full time, Permanent, 37.5 hours per week

Global Water Intelligence (GWI), the leading publisher and events organiser serving the international water industry, is looking to hire a hardworking and enthusiastic Graduate Data Analyst to join our team.

At Global Water Intelligence we collect a huge amount of data and are the main source of data for the international water industry. Our data and analysis are used by businesses, governments and investors to inform strategic decisions on the water sector. In some cases, we can collect near-comprehensive market data, while for others we need to rely on a combination of modelling, indicators, and contacts. In both cases, data needs to be collected, interpreted, and presented by in-house analysts who know enough about their subject area to validate and contextualise our numbers.

As a Graduate Data Analyst at GWI you will get to grips with new subject areas, explore unique datasets, and work out which data points we need in order to find the answer. We are looking for someone with a creative and inquisitive mind, with a good head for numbers and an adaptable approach to work.

Responsibilities:

• Build, manage and maintain datasets: As a data analyst you will help the wider data team to continue to provide invaluable forecast information and datasets to our clients. This includes collecting and organising external datasets, updating sources, carefully analysing information and accurately highlighting anomalies.
• Analysing and visualising data: Working with large datasets comes with challenges, this is why effective data analysis and visualisation is essential to draw out the interesting stories hiding behind the data.
• Clearly communicate information: Our customers rely on our numbers to help validate their business decisions. To earn that trust we need to communicate our methods and assumptions clearly and concisely. The same challenge applies internally. In a fast-paced research environment, complex topics and challenges need to be explained with the upmost clarity to ensure the whole team is on the same page.
• Managing projects: Most of what we do is a team effort, but getting great people to work well together is a skill in itself. We need people who are organised empathetic communicators to bring it all together.
• Working across teams towards wider business development growth: Your work will always be part of a bigger picture, and in taking ownership of your own projects you will collaborate with other teams from across the business to ensure everything we do contributes towards the company’s overall vision and goals.

Person requirements:
We do not expect any previous Data Analyst experience or knowledge of the water sector but, we are looking for candidates with strong academic credentials. If you think you are good at two or three of the following skills, we would like to hear from you.

• Knowledge of good data management practices, with the ability to collect, organize, and structure large datasets.
• Experience using Excel (including PivotTables or Power Query is desirable).
• Ability to analyse large datasets and draw out key trends/stories using effective data visualisation tools.
• Experience creating forecasts or data centric models is desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex data systems to the wider team.
• Project management skills, including scoping projects, delegating tasks and collaborating effectively with different teams.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, including taking initiative, showing ownership of tasks, and managing your own time.

Additional benefits:
• International travel, opportunity to regularly attend international water conferences
• Company pension plan
• Holiday allowance of 25 days per year (pro rata)
• Opportunity to attend relevant training courses and conferences to develop within the role

To apply:
Please submit a CV and a covering letter to recruitment@globalwaterintel.com explaining in fewer than 200 words why you are applying for the job and what you think you can contribute to us that would make a real difference.

The closing date for applications is 12 January 2024.

We will discard the applications which do not come with covering letters. We will then draw up a shortlist of the strongest candidates for the position to whom we will send a skills test. On the basis of this test, we will narrow the field down to applicants for interview.

Please note, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to offer feedback on any applications not carried through to the interview stage.