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Student Content Creators

Are you interested in documenting your student experience for the LSE European Institute?

This flexible, hourly-based role is open to Master's and PhD students studying in the 2025/26 academic year at the LSE European Institute who want to use their creative and tech-savvy skills to showcase their journey at LSE for prospective students and our wider EI community.

Applications for this role are now closed.
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About the role

We are looking for students within the LSE European Institute to support our team with the creation of video content for our social media channels and website, especially Instagram and YouTube. Our goal is to promote postgraduate study in the European Institute to prospective students, and showcase our departmental activities to our community in general, by sharing content by and for students, highlighting your point of view and experience as an LSE student.

As a Student Content Creator at the EI, you'll be creating authentic and informative content that depicts life at the European Institute, with the potential to reach thousands of students, alumni, and academics across LSE and beyond. This multi-faceted role is a great way for you to use your creativity and people skills to boost your CV while working behind the scenes to shape the European Institute's online presence. You'll gain valuable and transferrable skills in public speaking, video production, teamwork, time management, and more.

Whether you are a home or international student, studying on one of our single or double degrees, or completing your PhD with us – we want to hear from you! The more perspectives, the better.

Being a Student Content Creator at the European Institute was a highlight of my studies! I got to engage closely with the Institute's events, research, and community by promoting its work and making creative short-form content. It was a great way to feel more connected to the Institute while gaining hands-on experience in outreach and communications. I would particularly recommend the role to anyone looking to strengthen their digital communication skills, which are valuable across many professional fields.

Solène Mouchel, EI Student Content Creator (Class of 2025)

Relevant tasks include:

  • Content ideation, research, and planning
  • Short-form content creation for Instagram and/or Youtube
  • Support with social media campaigns/LSE theme days (e.g. International Women’s Day at the European Institute or Mental Health Awareness Week)
  • Providing ad hoc support to our communications team with various tasks (e.g. website updates, research and departmental news, our annual report)

Specifics:

  • This is a flexible, hourly-based role.
  • Renumeration: £18.91 per hour (Band 3).
  • Successful candidates will get onboarded with a 2h training covering video editing tips & tricks
  • Expected to produce 1-3 videos per term.
  • May be asked to support with additional communications tasks as listed above.
This role is suitable for someone seeking some occasional additional funds. Because we cannot guarantee regular hours on a weekly basis, it is not suitable for someone who needs a consistent and reliable source of income during their studies.

How to apply

  1. Select one of the topics below and create a 60-90 seconds video in a news correspondent format so we can get a feel for your camera presence and editing skills.
  2. Submit your video as a WeTransfer link via email to Delphine Polidori at ei.comms@lse.ac.uk, with a short blurb about yourself (programme of study, age, nationality, areas of interests, career ambitions, experience/interest in social media/video).

Topic options:

  • Three reasons I chose to study at the European Institute (and/or LSE more generally)
  • Three things I am looking forward to at LSE/living in London
  • Three reasons I chose to pursue a master's degree/PhD (at LSE or in general)
  • Three things I learned from my previous degree/job

Tip: try to keep the video short and dynamic by keeping your list of three concise and switching up your shots throughout the video. Feel free to adapt the topic to your liking!

We are accepting applications for this position until Sunday, 12 October at 11.59pm.

If you have any questions about the role or how to apply, please don't hesitate to email Delphine at ei.comms@lse.ac.uk.

Please note that the central LSE Student Marketing Team is also hiring for Student Content Creators and Student Bloggers across the School, but we run our own in-house Student Content Creator scheme for European Institute students to showcase student life in our own department. However, we work closely with the LSE Social Media Team and often do collaborative posts with them through the main LSE Instagram account, so your videos could appear on both our channels.

FAQs

This role will sit within our Engagement, Communications, and Marketing  (ECAM) Team, reporting directly to our Communications and Marketing Manager. Our ECAM Team engages with our global community, from prospective and current students, to our amazing alumni, to researchers and donors, as well as the wider public interested in learning about Europe and the world. We put on the EI’s public events programme and engage with our alumni to build community and support between current and graduate students.

Our team makes sure that the European Institute remains attractive and relevant to all our different stakeholders, including prospective students, by communicating on the Institute’s wide-ranging activities throughout the year (spanning from teaching, research, public events, and alumni). We do this via our website and social media channels using a variety of content and campaigns, including student and alumni testimonials, event recaps, interviews with our academics, and our Annual Report.

You must be an incoming or current European Institute student who is able to commit to working for the full 2025/26 academic year.

We hope to attract applications from a diversity of students from different perspectives, experiences, backgrounds, and interests, studying across our core and double degree programmes, as well as PhD candidates - so don't be shy, come work with us!

Previous experience (even recreational) with social media and video editing is desirable but not essential, although a general interest in content creation and communications is highly encouraged. Moreover, a creative eye, attention to detail, adaptability, and motivation to learn is a must.

Candidates should be comfortable speaking in front of the camera and able to approach students, faculty, and alumni outside of their own programme of study for interviews. They should also have excellent communication and teamwork skills, strong time management, a positive proactive approach to work, and an outgoing and friendly manner.

1-3 videos per term (around 6-8h of work per video) and potential additional ad hoc comms support for the department

This is a flexible, hourly-based role paid at £18.91 per hour.

Absolutely! In fact, we welcome your ideas and want to hear your input on which aspects of your journey at LSE and the European Institute you think we should showcase. What content do you think we are missing? We will try our best to accommodate your ideas while meeting our own marketing priorities.

In the past, for example, one of our student content creator was interested in producing career-related videos and asked our students what sector they wanted to work in after graduation; another used his experience as a Double Degree student to produce a series showcasing all four of our partner programmes; and another really wanted to share her top tips for applying to LSE!

Examples of content you will be creating

Voiceover montages/vlogs

This format is great for recapping a specific experience or if you want to feature lots of clips. It requires more scripting beforehand and recording an engaging voiceover, but it means you don't need to film yourself speaking on camera which can be more straightforward.

Montage videos with voiceover

  • To recap the Winter Term, our content creator Solène narrated this great overview alongside a compilation of her own clips through the term as well as some from her fellow content creators.

Come along with me (CAWM) videos with voiceover

  • Our content creators Julie and Solène were able to attend the LSE Careers in Brussels Fair and put together this great vlog recap of their experience there!

News correspondent style

This format is very engaging as you are speaking directly to the camera and can take our viewers on a journey through campus or London for example by switching up the shots throughout the video and/or interviewing different people!

Come along with me (CAWM) videos with interviews

  • While attending our Student Conference at Cumberland Lodge, our content creators Julie and Isaac worked together to compile this video asking their fellow students about their experience and thoughts on the conference.

Three reasons/tips for...

  • Our content creator Dan was keen to highlight the international student experience within the European Institute so he summarised his three top reasons to come study at the EI in this great short and dynamic format!

Wondering what it's like to...?

  • Our LSE-Columbia Double Degree student and content creator Isaac introduced our four Double Degree programmes and shared his own experience in this short video. He then went on to produce a full series showcasing our four Double Degrees (see below).

Interview-based videos featuring students, faculty, and alumni

You don't (always) have to be on camera! We are always keen to feature students studying across our eight master's degrees and PhD programme, as well as showcasing a diversity of perspectives, experiences, and interests, so you will often be asked to gather testimonies from your peers, as well as calling on our alumni community and faculty for content for Q&A compilations.

Q&A compilation videos

  • This video was part of a series produced by Isaac to promote our Double Degree Programmes. He first created the videos as reels for our Instagram and then made a horizontal Youtube version which we were able to plug directly into our prospectus pages for optimal visibility and reach.
  • In this video, our content creator Dan got in touch with academics across the European Institute to ask them about their top dissertation tips!

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