Faculty Communications Officer

About the Role

This exciting role is responsible for supporting the development and delivery of impactful internal and external communications, to help Queen Mary’s Faculty of Science and Engineering and its constituent Schools achieve their strategic goals. The role holder and the Faculty Communications Manager together form a key coordinating point between the Faculty and the central Marketing and Communications Directorate, providing communications expertise and representing the Faculty in University-wide communications and marketing initiatives.

About You

You have gained broad communications and PR experience, with excellent copywriting skills, and are used to working in a complex environment with multiple stakeholders and tight deadlines. You have a can-do attitude and deliver at a fast pace. Your relationship management skills are excellent; you are approachable and used to working in a highly collaborative way. These abilities have helped you to make a difference in your career – perhaps in a fast-moving agency, within the public sector, or at a charity or an NGO. You’re ready for your next step up and want to be part of a team that communicates about research, education and making a real difference to the world.

About the Department

The role reports to the Faculty Communications Manager and sits within the Marketing and Communications Directorate, which is responsible for the University’s external activities - including communications and marketing, student recruitment and admissions, international affairs and alumni relations and development.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable. Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence – and we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers. We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum, a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Location - London (Hybrid)

The post is office-based three days a week, in Department W (a brand-new professional services base for Queen Mary’s teams in Whitechapel) or the Faculty Office on the University’s Mile End campus as appropriate. It is full-time (35 hours per week) with a start date as soon as possible.

Salary

The starting salary will be Grade 4, in the range of £38,165 and up to £44,722 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of recruitment for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

To apply for the role, please click the ‘Apply’ button above.

The closing date for applications is 8th October 2023 with interviews shortly thereafter.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Melissa Bradshaw (Faculty Communications Manager) at m.bradshaw@qmul.ac.uk.

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