Job Description
About the Role
Working in the External Relations Directorate, this role is responsible for helping to deliver our press and media relations work. These outputs enhance and sustain Queen Mary's reputation as a leading research university in the UK, alongside supporting an ambition to become the most inclusive institution of its kind.
About You
You will be an experienced communications professional used to delivering creative communications in a complex environment and working to multiple stakeholders and deadlines. You will also be organised, flexible and approachable, with a can-do attitude.
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, 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 Dept W in Whitechapel. It is full-time (working on site at least three days per week) with a start date as soon as possible. The starting salary will be Grade 4, in the range of £36,348 - £42,592 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.
Informal enquiries should be addressed to rebecca.cox@qmul.ac.uk
The closing date for applications is 27 March 2023, with interviews shortly thereafter.