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About the Role
This role is responsible for supporting the strategic approach to, and delivery of, internal communications throughout Queen Mary, to both staff and students and across all channels, for the Doctoral College/Centre for Early Career Researchers (CECR).
This role is designed to meet the communications needs of the Doctoral College/CECR and coordinate communications with postgraduate research students (PGRs), Early Career Researchers, PGR supervisors and associated staff across the University. The role is also responsible for maintaining the Doctoral College/CECR external pages of the Queen Mary website and PGR-associated areas of our online learning environment, QMplus.
About You
As an experienced communications professional, you will play a key role leading the development, implementation and review of communications plans that raise the profile of the Centre for Early Career Researchers, and directly engages our research audiences both internally and externally.
The role holder will need to work effectively with Professional and Research Services staff across the University, and will also support the internal and external promotion of the Doctoral College/CECR and its schedule of events.
About the Department
The Doctoral College (soon to be the Centre for Early Career Research) works to support the life cycle of PhD students and Early Career Researchers at Queen Mary by working with both postgraduate research students and staff to support a thriving research community.
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. This role sits within both the Doctoral College and the External Relations Directorate
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.
Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
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 (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), 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.
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.