Strategic Communications Planner & Network Lead

Imperial Enterprise; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

43 days annual leave

Generous pension

Hybrid working

Professional development

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Imperial College London is seeking a Planning and Network Coordinator to shape communications planning across the university, working with the Head of Operations and Planning to ensure insight-led, priority-aligned activity.

You will lead horizon scanning, coordinate information from across Imperial, develop relationships with senior stakeholders, and support cross‑divisional campaigns with monitoring and evaluation.

Qualifications

• Experience working within communications, press office, public affairs or journalism environment.
• Strong project management skills, with experience coordinating multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for a variety of audiences.
• The ability to analyse complex information, identify key insights and make practical recommendations.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and building productive relationships across organisational boundaries.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and sound judgement.
• A proactive, self‑starting approach and the confidence to work independently.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to bring people together around shared priorities.
• An interest in audience insight, evaluation and evidence‑led communications.

Responsibilities

• Lead horizon scanning and maintain planning systems that identify opportunities, risks and priorities across the institution.
• Coordinate information from across Imperial to support strategic communications planning and prioritisation.
• Develop strong working relationships with colleagues, senior stakeholders and communications professionals across the university.
• Support major cross‑divisional communications projects and campaigns, ensuring activity is coordinated, aligned and effectively monitored.
• Produce briefings, planning materials, reports and content for internal and external audiences.
• Gather, analyse and interpret audience insight, digital analytics and evaluation data to inform future communications activity.
• Share best practice, learning and evidence‑based recommendations to improve communications effectiveness.
• Coordinate and grow Imperial's Communications Network through events, briefing sessions and communities of practice.
• Help foster greater collaboration, knowledge sharing and connectivity across communications teams.

Skills

Experience in communications

Project management

Written and verbal communication

Audience insight

Stakeholder management

Organisational skills

Proactive/self-starting

Interpersonal/influencing

Cross‑functional collaboration

Job description

Imperial College London is seeking a Planning and Network Coordinator to shape communications planning across the university, working with the Head of Operations and Planning to ensure insight-led, priority-aligned activity.

You will lead horizon scanning, coordinate information from across Imperial, develop relationships with senior stakeholders, and support cross‑divisional campaigns with monitoring and evaluation.