Communications and Marketing Manager in Nottingham

We're looking for an ambitious and creative Communications and Marketing Manager to lead how we tell the story of the Students' Union. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the communications strategy for one of the UK's largest Students' Unions, leading a talented team that sits within our Membership Services Directorate while working collaboratively across the whole organisation.

You'll be responsible for developing and delivering an ambitious communications and marketing strategy that brings our mission to life. Whether it's showcasing the impact of student representation, encouraging students to join a society, promoting our advice and support services, launching campaigns, celebrating student success or driving engagement with our social enterprises, you'll ensure our communications connect with students in meaningful and authentic ways.

As the lead manager for communications and marketing, you'll oversee our brand, campaigns, digital communications and content, ensuring every interaction reflects who we are and the value we create for students. You'll use insight and evaluation to continually improve how we engage our members, helping more students discover opportunities, influence change and feel part of our community.

You'll also play an important role across the organisation, partnering with colleagues, elected Officers and student leaders to provide expert communications advice and embed effective planning into major organisational projects. We're looking for someone with experience of leading communications and marketing activity, developing successful campaigns and managing high-performing teams. You'll be an excellent communicator with strong strategic thinking, sound judgement and a passion for creating communications that genuinely make a difference.

If you're excited by the opportunity to shape the voice of an organisation that exists to improve the lives of 38,000 students, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Students’ Union prides itself on being inclusive, working collaboratively and empowering individuals to be the best they can. In return we want to be an employer where every member of the staff team feels valued, trusted, inspired, and able to grow and to have fun. We welcome people from different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs – this very diversity is vital to our success, it is fundamental to our values and enriches life on campus. We value diversity, promote equity and challenge discrimination. We are on a journey to increase the diversity of our staff team and we would like to encourage applications from disabled, LGBT+ and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds to better reflect the diverse community we serve.

We offer a range of employee benefits which support employee wellbeing such as flexi-time, flexible working, generous holiday allowance, generous staff pension, paid Union closure days, learning and development opportunities and much more.

Here at the University of Nottingham Students’ Union, we are a connected student community. A brilliant, diverse and ambitious community. We are proudly independent from the university and right at the heart of student life. We’re a diverse community from first-year undergraduates to research students, elected student Executive and staff, to volunteers, pioneers, and so much more. Together, we are getting involved, making change, and supporting each other, making student life at the University of Nottingham the very best it can be.

We are one of the largest Students’ Union in the country, connecting student members to share, support and inspire each other while at University. As a registered charity we act as the recognised representative body of all students at the University, and every student is automatically a member free of charge. We provide a range of activities, events, campaigning, commercial and professional services that benefit and support students to get involved, find support, and make change.

Our mission is to make student life at the University of Nottingham the best it can be. We support students to share and voice their views on academic life and the wider University experience and have strong student leadership in our elected student representatives. We provide an excellent Advice service to help students with academic, housing, financial issues and welfare support. There is a diverse range of social, cultural, sporting and recreational activities and many opportunities for personal development.

We work with and support events and activities through the student committees of over 400 societies, 75 sports clubs, media groups and other student communities and we facilitate many student volunteers to take part in community projects. Through our trading company, UNU Services Limited, we run two SPAR shops, a bar, coffee shop, clothing shop and a print shop. Our annual financial turnover, for the charity and trading company combined is in excess of £11m annually.

As a charity the Students’ Union has a Board of Trustees which is responsible for the governance, management, strategy and budget of the Students’ Union. The Trustees currently consist of our full-time elected Student Officers and 4 appointed Lay Trustees, along with 4 appointed Student Trustees. The daily work of the Students’ Union is directed by elected Student Officers, with advice and support from staff. The Officer team is made up of full-time sabbatical Officers. Each Officer has their own portfolio of individual responsibilities as well as holding the shared responsibility for creating changes which will improve the lives of students at the University.

The Students' Union employs over two hundred and fifty staff in its Commercial, Membership and Central Services. Around half of our staff are students who balance work with their studies and social lives. Other staff work full-time, some are part-time, and some are required only during term-time and work for just part of the year. If you like working in a vibrant and fast changing environment with passionate students excited about their experience, you will enjoy working for the University of Nottingham Students' Union.