Communications Manager (0.8 FTE) in London

About the role

This role focuses on leading and delivering high‑quality communications to promote the Centre’s research, activities, and impact across a wide range of audiences. The postholder is responsible for creating engaging and accessible content, including news stories, blogs, newsletters, lay summaries, and multimedia outputs such as animations and video. They will also support the development of press releases in collaboration with Faculty colleagues and coordinate key outputs such as the Centre’s research briefs series.

A key aspect of the role is managing the Centre’s digital presence, overseeing and growing social media channels—particularly BlueSky and LinkedIn—and refreshing and maintaining the Centre’s website to ensure content remains current and aligned with the organisation’s tone and ethos. The postholder plays an important role in planning and delivering events, including seminar series, primers, and ad hoc activities, ensuring they are well‑organised and effectively promoted.

Collaboration and relationship‑building are central, with the role acting as an ambassador for the Centre by developing links with partners, third sector organisations, policymakers, and the media. The role also requires meaningful engagement with experts‑by‑experience and affected communities, ensuring inclusive and collaborative approaches. A strong commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion underpins all aspects of the work, with active contributions to related initiatives and charter commitments. This is a part‑time post (28 hours per week) and you will be offered a fixed‑term contract until 30/04/2028.

About you

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

• A first degree or equivalent experience.
• Excellent communication skills, including experience of promoting and disseminating research findings to a range of audiences.
• Experience of supporting and coordinating research‑related engagement activities, including development of briefs and similar dissemination outputs.
• Experience of organising events such as workshops, seminars and conferences.
• Experience of website maintenance, editing and content creation using Contensis or similar content management systems.
• Experience of creating accessible content for social media channels and using content creation software such as Canva or AdobePro.
• Demonstrable commitment/interest in supporting research to have real‑world impact and influence beyond academia.
• Proven consistent ability to meet tight individual and group deadlines and to manage one’s own workload through effective prioritising, time management and organisational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate challenging potentially upsetting content in a sensitive and accessible way.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with research teams and people with lived experience, including good interpersonal skills to develop and maintain effective working relationships.
• An interest in the area of society and mental health.
• Relevant previous experience of supporting interdisciplinary research projects.
• Good science writing skills.

The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and, in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. We are committed to free speech and academic freedom and create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including controversial ones, can be discussed and debated safely.