R&D Projects Manager and Communications Officer

University of Leeds; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Leeds is seeking an R&D Projects Manager and Communications Officer to enhance visibility and engagement with various stakeholders. This role focuses on sustainability and circular economy projects while managing communication strategies across diverse platforms. Candidates will lead stakeholder engagements, organize events, and measure impact, with a flexible hybrid work option available.

Benefits

26 days holiday plus 16 Bank Holidays

Generous pension scheme

Health and Wellbeing discounts for staff

Access to personal development courses

On-site childcare options

Shopping discounts and travel schemes

Qualifications

• Experience in project management and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong communication skills for diverse audiences.
• Knowledge of sustainability and circular economy is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and delivery of engagement and communication strategies.
• Develop user engagement strategy and organize stakeholder events.
• Monitor impact through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and manage communications.

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Strategic Communication

Project Management

Sustainability Knowledge

Job description

R&D Projects Manager and Communications Officer

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R&D Projects Manager and Communications Officer

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You will provide a professional and effective service working with the Chair in Construction Materials Science in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds, leading on the development and delivery of project aims, engagement strategy, and research marketing and communications activities into sustainability, circular economy, and industrial materials. You will work across a number of projects, closely with the projects teams and partners. Your work will reach and connect a wide range of audiences, both national and international including partners, industry, researchers in universities, policy makers, SMEs, Networks, trade associations, and the public.

You will develop and deliver a user engagement strategy, which includes engaging directly with the stakeholders through various information gathering activities to both raise awareness and to capture their interest areas. You will help identify the commercial and technical challenges that will need to be overcome for our research outcomes to be relevant and applicable.

You will be delivering communication strategy to increase visibility of our work and organize events for various stakeholders. You will also identify industry-focused and trade association events that will be useful for Researchers to present their work at and you will publish articles in trade media. The post holder will also work closely with other colleagues within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and the wider University. You will organize advisory board meetings, group meetings, workshops, site visits, seminars, public engagement, and other events. You will liaise with media companies to produce media content tailored to informing on our projects’ objectives and outcomes, which will be shared on various platforms as well as made available for other publishers to share, such as the various trade associations to disseminate to their members.

You will measure and monitor our impact based on Key [living] Performance Indicators (KPIs) which can include number of collaborating partners, percentage of market engaged with, number of engagement events held, attendees at workshops and dissemination events, number of industrial visits, and number of views of online content; this will also include recording minutes at meetings. You will also use these metrics to visualise our impact.

This role will be based at the university of Leeds campus and there is scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Professor Theodore Hanein, Chair in Construction Materials Science

Email: [e-mail]

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information, please visit the Government’s Skilled Worker visa page.

For research and academic posts, we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa. For more information, please visit the Government’s page, Apply for the Global Talent visa.

What We Offer In Return

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme plus life assurance – the University contributes 14.5% of salary.
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.
  
  

And much more!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Higher Education

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