Communications and Engagement Manager (One King’s Impact) (Part-time Maternity Cover)

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience :

Essential Criteria

• Proven experience in strategic communications and engagement within complex organisations.
• Strong event planning and delivery skills, including experience managing high-profile events.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate presentations and technical reports to a wide audience, including non-specialist ones.
• Experience of creating different types of content for wide ranging audiences, e.g. website copy, video, reports, articles.
• Experience using website content management systems to publish, edit and maintain digital content e.g., Contensis.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse communities and a developed sense of cultural competency and emotional intelligence.
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to deliver outcomes on time and to budget.

Desirable Criteria

• Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification.
• Experience in developing impact communication and strategies.
• Understanding of impact and knowledge exchange in its widest context and appreciation of the different ways in which universities can contribute to society, the economy and the environment.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community. We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King\’s. As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible. To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘[How we Recruit]( pages.