JRMO Communication and Engagement Manager

About the Role

The JRMO Communication and Engagement Manager plays a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth and effective operation of the Joint Research Management Office, delivering strategic leadership across internal communications, office administration, and project coordination. Working collaboratively with teams across Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust, the post holder will lead the development of integrated communication strategies, with responsibility for shaping and maintaining JRMO communications—including the production of regular bulletins, website management, and stakeholder engagement. They will manage and mentor key administrative staff, and ensure robust administrative processes.

About You

You will have good organisational skills and the ability to balance competing pressures, deadlines and demands. Your excellent communication and interpersonal skills will allow you to act as a trusted point of contact, across both institutions (Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust), with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels. Your experience in project management, involving complex initiatives, will be essential to overseeing critical operational functions that support recruitment, events, and knowledge-sharing initiatives. You should have good working knowledge of financial systems and accounting methodologies and the ability to provide budget computations and analysis with complete accuracy, often under pressure. You be able to contribute to strategic projects that drive innovation, alignment, and organisational excellence within the JRMO.

About the JRMO

Joint Research Management Office (JRMO) supports researchers across Queen Mary, University of London and Bart’s Health NHS Trust. Our highly trained team is on hand to support a diverse range of research activities, from getting a project off the ground to ensuring its smooth running and future development. The team members understand where their work fits into the strategic plans and goals of the organisations.

Our services include assisting with approvals process’s, ongoing financial management of grants and awards, support with Research Integrity, and International Research and Innovation Partnership Support.

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.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

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.

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.

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