Senior Communications Officer (Research)

About the job
This role is responsible for supporting the strategic approach to, and delivery of, internal communications throughout Queen Mary, to both staff and students and across all channels, for the Doctoral College.

This role is designed to meet the communications needs of the Doctoral College and co-ordinate communications with postgraduate research students (PGR), PGR supervisors and associated staff across the University. The role holder is also responsible for maintaining the external PGR pages of the Queen Mary website and PGR-associated areas of our online learning environment, QMplus.

The role holder will need to work effectively with Professional and Research Services staff across the University, and will also support the internal and external promotion of the Doctoral College and its schedule of events.

About the Department
Queen Mary University of London is one of the UK’s leading research universities, committed to improving social justice and achieving the previously unthinkable. The Doctoral College works to support the life cycle of PhD students at Queen Mary by working with both postgraduate research students and staff to support a thriving research community. The Marketing and Communications Directorate is responsible for the University’s external activities, including communications and marketing, student recruitment and admissions, international affairs and alumni relations and development. This role sits within both the Doctoral College and the Marketing & Communications Directorate.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, 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 (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), 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.

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 the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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