Communications and Media Manager

About the role

As RCOG Communications and Media Manager, the campaigns you design and lead will ensure the voices of women and frontline clinicians are shaping the health agenda and influencing policy. In this role, you will work regularly with national journalists, women’s health charities, Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England or successor bodies, other royal colleges, specialist societies and other partners to develop accurate and compelling stories that bring the College’s work to life in the news. Working closely with colleagues across our Policy and public affairs, Workforce and Marketing teams, you will be part of a friendly and passionate External Affairs directorate.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead College’s annual external communication plan including a variety of campaigns aligned to the College’s strategic priorities.
• Profile College’s work and impact in the media and build effective media partnerships.
• Oversee RCOG content and social media strategies and develop impactful content to engage audiences through earned, paid and owned channels.
• Ensure that clinicians’ expertise and women’s voices and lived experience inform the RCOG’s communications programme.
• Act as a trusted expert advising our President, Officers and senior leaders on reputational issues, including briefing and media training for high-profile or sensitive topics.
• Use data, insight and new technologies to continuously improve the impact of communications and campaigns.
• Participate in the out-of-hours press rota, currently around one in three weekends and occasional evenings.

About you

You are an experienced communications professional who has led communications programmes and integrated campaigns from planning through to evaluation. You have strong press-office and media-relations experience and a track record of building productive relationships with journalists. You combine strategic thinking with editorial judgement and are comfortable managing both reactive media issues and longer-term communications activity. You can advise senior stakeholders clearly and calmly, work constructively with partners and ensure that clinicians’ expertise and women’s lived experience are represented accurately and respectfully. You will thrive in this role if you enjoy varied work, can prioritise effectively when circumstances change and are motivated by the contribution that communications can make to better healthcare for women and girls.

Essential requirements

• Demonstrable experience managing development and delivery of an organisation’s communications programme.
• Designing and delivering creative impactful campaigns with clear outcomes.
• Strong media-relations and press-office experience, including developing stories, responding to enquiries and working with journalists.
• Excellent news judgement and the ability to produce clear, accurate and engaging content for different audiences and channels.
• Experience advising senior leaders or spokespeople on sensitive, high-profile or reputational issues.
• Successful track record of building relationships and delivering communications work with external partners.
• Effective planning and prioritisation skills.
• Able to use data and insight to evaluate and improve communications activity.
• Willingness to participate in the out-of-hours press rota.
• Experience supervising, coaching or developing colleagues.

Our culture and benefits

You will be located in our offices in London Bridge. We offer a friendly, values-led working culture with an excellent benefits package that includes:

• Agile and flexible working environment and free lunch onsite.
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and office closure from 25 December to 1 January.
• 10% pension contribution after probation.
• Enhanced wellbeing and family support.
• Interest-free season ticket loans after probation.
• Tailored Learning and Development and study leave.
• Affinity staff networks.
• Life assurance and income protection schemes.
• Lifestyle discounts.

For a full list of the benefits we offer, please visit our careers site. Applications close at 10.00 am on Monday 24 August 2026. We encourage candidates to apply early. We may close the advert before the stated date if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. First-stage interviews are expected to take place on 2 and 3 September 2026. Second-stage interviews for selected candidates are expected to take place between 14 and 16 September 2026. We hope the successful candidate will start in October 2026, subject to their notice period and completion of pre-employment checks.

We believe that diverse teams will deliver the best outcomes for women's healthcare and we strive to be an inclusive employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and particularly encourage candidates from underrepresented groups, including people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and disabled people. To find out more, please see our Diversity Policy and Equal Opportunities Policy.

If you require any adjustments to apply for this role or need the job advert in an alternative format, please contact us via jobs@rcog.org.uk. We will provide reasonable adjustments so that candidates can participate fully throughout the recruitment process.

Please note: Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. The RCOG is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.

About us

The RCOG is a professional membership association dedicated to improving women’s health care across the world. We do this by setting standards for clinical practice, providing doctors with training and lifelong learning, and working with partners to advocate for women’s health and health care across their life course. We are a global leader in this specialist area, supporting 19,000 members in the UK and internationally. We are a values-led organisation placing high standards, innovation, openness, inclusiveness and trust at the centre of all we do.