Head of External and Campaign Communications

Department: External Relations
Salary: £61,896 – £69,114 (Grade 7)
Reference: 1323
Location: Department W, 81 Mile End Road
Date posted: 15 February 2024
Closing date: 29 February 2024

Overview

About the Role

The Head of External and Campaign Communications is responsible for the strategic leadership of Queen Mary’s external communications and brand reputation campaign activities. This includes: ownership of Queen Mary’s brand awareness campaign and the Communications team’s contribution to Queen Mary’s student recruitment campaigns; leading key aspects of reputation management and crisis communications; and leading the Faculty Communications Managers, and the Media Relations and Social Media teams.

This role is part of the Communications leadership team. The impact of the role is measured by progress against one of our 13 University level KPIs.

About you

If you are an experienced communications leader, passionate about impactful marketing and communications, and impatient to make a difference, we look forward to receiving your application.

About the External Relations Directorate

The External Relations Directorate is responsible for the University’s external activities, including communications and marketing, student recruitment and admissions, international affairs, and alumni relations and development.

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, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at our Mile End and Dept W campuses in London. It is a full time, permanent appointment, with an immediate start date. This is a Grade 7 role, the starting salary for which is in the range of £61,896 – £69,114 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

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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To apply for this vacancy, expressions of interest should be directed to:

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