Strategic Projects Communications Lead

About the role:

As a Strategic Projects Communications Lead, you will have a pivotal role in the success of significant change projects and programmes to realise our ambitious University Strategy.

Join us as a creative communications professional to engage our diverse staff and student community.

Your role will :

• Lead communications for various crucial strategic programs and projects, crafting and detailed communication plans with persuasive messaging in sync with project achievements.
• Provide expert internal communications guidance to executive project and programme sponsors, addressing communication risks and opportunities.
• Work closely with programme managers, project managers, change managers and Human Resources to ensure timely, relevant, and accurate communications with collaborators.
• Maintain oversight of project communications outputs and support key communication channels for internal audiences.
• Use multiple media types including text, images, audio, and video to engage diverse staff and student audiences.
• Leverage analytics to identify communication opportunities, evaluate activities, and improve channels.

About you:

You’ll have excellent time management, with the proven ability to prioritise across a range of projects and programmes. If you have a mix of enthusiasm, perseverance, and foresight and excel at working with different collaborators to accomplish project success, we encourage you to reach out.

Further information:

The role is available on a full-time fixed term basis of a minimum 24 months. The planned interview date for this vacancy is 06 October 2025. 

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Lynn Li , Associate Director of Communications and Engagement , lyll21@bath.ac.uk 

However please ensure that you submit your application through the university website.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

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