School Communications Manager

King's College London; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading university is seeking a School Communications Manager for the School of Neuroscience, starting July 2025. This role involves promoting the school through effective communication strategies, liaising with internal and external stakeholders, and providing a high level of communications support in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Mentoring programs

Qualifications

• Proven scientific or complex science communications background.
• Experience of developing and/or delivering communication strategies.
• Excellent task management skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver the School's communication strategy.
• Lead on external communications for the School.
• Act as key interface between School, Faculty, and external audiences.

Skills

Scientific communications

Creative digital media

Task management

Problem solving

Independent work

Effective communication

Job description

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About us

The School of Neuroscience is UK's 2nd largest Neuroscience school with over 500 researcher and 200 PhD students. It is one of three schools at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. We are ranked 4th in the world for the total number of publications in neuroscience, 4th for the number of publication outputs in top 5% citations in neuroscience, and 4th for top 5% citations in neurology.

Our academic and research staff are integral to our school. Their work is supported by a group of Professional Services staff members within the departments as well as at the school level. We support staff members requiring flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments. Upon consultation at the points of recruitment and onboarding, we will strive to provide the best adjustments for you.

We strongly encourage our staff to dedicate time to their professional development through training courses and participation in working groups and networks. We also encourage our staff to seek mentoring outside their direct line management. Mentoring, both via formal and informal arrangements, allows individuals to fully explore their career situation and development. Our weekly school circular regularly captures and promotes opportunities open to all staff.

About the role

The role is based within the School of Neuroscience (SoN) and is to cover a secondment for 12 months starting on 1st July 2025. The School Communications Manager will work across the School with key stakeholders to provide high-level communications support to best promote the School to internal and external audiences.

The role is responsible for developing and delivering the School's communication strategy in order to deliver on the School strategy, with the role holder acting as a key interface between the School, Faculty, wider University and external audiences. The post-holder will lead on external communications for the School and support the Senior Business Support Officer who will lead on internal communications.

The role would suit someone who is proactive, with a strong Neuroscience background, has excellent communications skills and is able to engage with a range of audiences on complex topics.

The role will provide individuals with experience of managing communications across a large and complex School and would suit someone interested in pursuing a career in communications.

The role holder will report to the Head of School Operations, with a dotted reporting line through to the IoPPN Head of Communications

This is a full-time post, however we will also consider adjusting the role as part-time (0.5FTE). In this instance, the part-time focus of the role will be to lead on external communications. You will be offered a fixed term contract until 30th June 2026.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Proven scientific or complex science communications background.
2. Solutions focused self-starter with experience of identifying communications opportunities and using creative digital media
3. Experience of developing and/or delivering a communications strategy, applying a broad range of communications methods across traditional and social media, events, web, design and print.
4. Proven experience in identifying and adapting communication materials to meet the needs of different groups.
5. Excellent task management skills and ability to meet deadlines with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
6. Effective at working independently, and as part of a team, able to take own initiative and decisions with a proactive approach to complex problem solving.

Desirable criteria

1. Proven working experience in higher education
2. Awareness of current challenges in the sector of neuroscience research

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 pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

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.

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