Senior Communications Officer

About us

The Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Hub is a £5 million UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) funded research and innovation programme, led by King's College London.

The Hub brings together diverse stakeholders from across the UK to strengthen collaboration, improve understanding of climate risks and accelerate transformational adaptation. It provides a platform for connecting evidence, expertise and experience across sectors, supporting the development of adaptation policy and practice, through engagement with government partners on priorities and objective setting.

About the role

Through its four interconnected pillars: building skills and partnerships; generating data and knowledge; linking knowledge, policy and practice; and innovating through funding - the Hub strengthens adaptation capacity, produces and translates research into actionable evidence, supports policy responses to emerging climate challenges, and funds innovative, community focused and place-based approaches. Together, this work aims to enable a more equitable, evidence led and climate resilient UK.

Working closely with the MACC Hub Manager and Lead, the post holder will be responsible for independently driving all communications activities and plans for the MACC Hub. The postholder will work autonomously to develop and deliver communications initiatives, and ensure effective dissemination of the Hub’s work, key insights, and outputs to a broad range of stakeholders, including policymakers, researchers, and practitioners across the UK, and beyond.

The role will include working closely with Hub consortium and external partners to maintain a cohesive narrative around the Hub and its achievements, helping to maximise the impact, legacy and uptake of MACC outputs as we move towards the final phase of the Hub in 2027.

We are particularly interested in candidates with technical knowledge of climate change adaptation – as we strive to increase meaningful public engagement on adaptation, drawing on Hub insights.

In joining the MACC Hub, the post holder will become part of a dynamic and high-profile UK-wide network of adaptation scholars and practitioners. They will work closely with the Stockholm Environment Institute who manage and maintain the MACC Hub website, and with the climate communication NGO Climate Outreach who have developed key messaging on adaptation. On a day-to-day basis, the post-holder will benefit from working alongside the comms team at the School of Global affairs research office.

The post holder will be able to work as part of King’s hybrid working model (Strand Campus). This is a full time (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term 1 year contract.

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