Research and Innovation Communications Officer

About the Role
The Research and Innovation Communications Officer will provide added capacity to support research and innovation communications for key internal and external audiences, raising awareness of our achievements and creating engagement with our goals.

About You
The Research and Innovation Communications Officer is an all-round communications professional, with experience in developing clear and engaging messages for a variety of internal and external audiences. They will work across the university to develop high-impact, well-evidenced and engaging communications that translate complex science and research into compelling stories. Although embedded within Research and Innovation Services, they will work collaboratively and effectively with colleagues in companion teams, including with the Innovation Communications Manager and the central Communications Directorate, to ensure work is joined up.

About the Department
The Research Strategy, Impact and Culture team, part of Research and Innovation Services, provides specialist expertise and strategic capacity to enable the university to deliver priority projects to enhance and grow our research and innovation activity.

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, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

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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