Communications Manager

Kings College London; London; On-site; GBP 46,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading university is seeking a Communications Manager for their Centre for Society and Mental Health. The role involves promoting significant research to diverse audiences and requires strong communication skills. Candidates should have experience in event organization, website maintenance, and content creation for social media.

Qualifications

• Experience in promoting and disseminating research findings.
• Experience of coordinating research engagement activities.
• Commitment to supporting impactful research beyond academia.

Responsibilities

• Disseminate research findings to key audiences.
• Manage the Centre's social media presence.
• Coordinate internal and external communications including newsletters.

Skills

Communication skills

Event organization

Content creation for social media

Website maintenance

Time management

Education

First degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Contensis

Canva

AdobePro

Job description

About us:

OurCentre for Society and Mental Health is a cross-Faculty initiative between the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy (SSPP) and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN).

The centre aims to better understand the complex interrelationships between society and mental health, with a commitment to:

- Ensure that the impact of social context is central to how we understand mental health;
- Work in partnership with affected communities.

We are looking for a Communications Manager to disseminate and promote this impactful research to key audiences.

About the role:

You will work closely with Centre Manager and the Communications, Policy, and Impact hub leads. This involves collaborating closely with an interdisciplinary team of researchers as well as the Centre s academic and community partners and experts-by-experience.

You will collaborate with researchers across all programmes and hubs to sensitively and effectively communicate the findings of their impactful research in an accessible way to appropriate audiences who are best placed to make use of the findings to influence policies and practice. This will be through various formats including Centre research briefs series. You will actas an ambassador for the Centre and develop connections with potential partners, third sector organisations, media and policy makers. You will support the Centre culture of inclusivity and reciprocity and bring this ethos and tone of the Centre s voice and approach into all communications. You will also work in full partnership with experts-by-experience or members of affected communities.

Additionally, you will create content for news stories, blogs, animations to disseminate and promote the work of the Centre. You will continue to build and develop the Centre s social media presence including increasing our BlueSky and LinkedIn presence and followers and creating an Instagram account. You will continue to develop and deliver the Centre s successful programme of events to continue to reach our core audiences and attract new ones. You will refresh the Centre s website and be responsible for developing and coordinating all internal and external communications including newsletters, news stories, blog posts and press releases, working with relevant colleagues from the communications teams in both faculties to promote Centre research.

This is a part time post (28 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30th April 2028. Please note that as this role is part time, the salary listed below will be amended accordingly (pro rata).

About you:

We are asking candidates to demonstrate their experience on the following criteria:

Essential criteria

1. A first degree or equivalent experience.
2. Excellent communication skills, including experience of promoting and disseminating research findings to a range of audiences.
3. Experience of supporting and coordinating research-related engagement activities, including development of briefs and similar dissemination outputs.
4. Experience of organising events such as workshops, seminars and conferences.
5. Experience of website maintenance, editing and content creation using Contensis or similar content management systems.
6. Experience of creating accessible content for social media channels and using content creation software such as Canva or AdobePro.
7. Demonstrable commitment/interest in supporting research to have real-world impact and influence beyond academia.
8. 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.

Desirable criteria

1. Demonstrated ability to communicate challenging potentially upsetting content in a sensitive and accessible way.
2. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with research teams and people with lived experience, including good interpersonal skills to develop and maintain effective working relationships.
3. An interest in the area of society and mental health.
4. Relevant previous experience of supporting interdisciplinary research projects.
5. Good science writing skills.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click Apply Now . This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information:

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our How we Recruit pages.

Interview date/s TBC.

Grade and Salary:£45,497 per annum pro rata, including London Weighting Allowance
Job ID:115266
Close Date:30-Jun-2025
Contact Person:Virginia Elgar
Contact Details:[e-mail]