Communications Manager (Science and Engineering)

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 - £46,049, with potential progression once in post to £48,822

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Shape the story of world-changing research

The University of Birmingham has been changing lives since it received its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria in 1900. Today, our researchers are unearthing Britain's biggest dinosaur trackway, shaping the future understand of climate science, and creating life-changing technologies to make humanity healthier. We've exceeded £1 billion income, secured record research funding, and risen to 68th in the QS World University Rankings. We are ambitious for more.

We're looking for an exceptional Communications Manager to join our Research Communications and Engagement team and share our world-leading research.

The Role

This will be a pivotal role for amplifying the scale, visibility and impact of our Science and Engineering research activities globally. Working with colleagues across the University, the postholder plays a lead role in shaping and delivering media engagement strategies, spanning research, innovation, and education initiatives, that will enhance the University’s global reputation.

What you’ll do

You will find exceptional stories about the University’s research across Science and Engineering disciplines, articulating the quality and impact of research to the audiences that matter.  You will build and maintain effective relationships and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders, including other communications experts across the University, research partners, and funders.

What we’re looking for

You will have substantial experience in communications craft and practice, ideally with experience working in research and development, and will be able to identify exceptional stories and leverageuse a wide variety of communications opportunities to raise the University’s research profile with a range of specific audiences. You'll be collaborative by instinct, self-driven by nature, and creative in your approach.

About the University of Birmingham

Our Edgbaston campus is a beautiful place to work, with impressive architecture and a green heart at its centre. We're a civic institution that is proudly of and for this city, with deep ties to Birmingham's communities, institutions and industries. We're a global university, and we’re proud to attract exceptional people from across the world, of our world‑class research, transformative education, community engagement and local civic leadership.

Informal enquiries can be made to Tim Mayo

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Valuing excellence, sustaining investment

We value diversity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working

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