Specialist Marketing and Engagement Manager

About us

King’s Innovation Catalyst, within King’s College London, is seeking an experienced professional to support engagement and communications for up to 12 months around our portfolio of innovation opportunities with both external companies, investor partners and staff internal to King’s College London.

King’s Innovation Catalyst (formerly named Innovation@King’s) helps King College London’s researchers unlock commercial opportunities to create impact at scale. We champion a diverse portfolio of breakthrough technologies and innovations in healthcare (including diagnostics, therapeutics and medical devices), physical sciences (IT, telecommunications and robotics) and across the social sciences, humanities and the arts.

The Specialist Marketing and Engagement Manager is responsible for developing and implementing strategies to market technology-licensing/investment and collaboration opportunities and promote innovation support resources and teams internally to King’s research community.

About the role

The Specialist Marketing and Engagement Manager is responsible for developing and implementing strategies, which both market technology-licensing/investment and collaboration opportunities relating to outputs from KCL’s research base to external companies and investors. They will also prepare and maintain “open for business comms” (including web pages, press releases and social media content), and promote internally to King’s staff the various innovation support resources/teams available to assist in achieving impact from our research outputs.

This is a maternity cover role, working with existing teams within King’s Innovation Catalyst, academic staff within Faculty and central university communications teams to maximise:

• awareness and dissemination of information regarding innovations available for partnering, licensing and investment,
• communications relating to available commercialisation opportunities, translation funding opportunities, innovation support resources and support teams at King’s,
• awareness of strategic innovation projects and opportunities of relevance to both the internal King’s audience and external partners,
• promotion of King’s successes in the innovation field.

The ideal candidate will bring substantial experience of engagement and communication with both internal stakeholders and external partners around innovation, commercialisation, collaborative partnering and entrepreneurism. They will combine strong strategic communication and stakeholder engagement experience, with an understanding of innovation, business and commercialisation, and an ability to engage and inspire both senior stakeholders in funders, industry and the university as well as academic researchers and the public in general.

This post will be offered as maternity cover for a fixed period of up to 12 months, with candidates available to start in December 2024.

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week).

About you

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

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level in a relevant field or equivalent experience  
• Experienced across IT, design and marketing software (MS Office, social media, website, CMS, email marketing, as well as Adobe Creative Suite)  
• Excellent communications skills – ability to creatively translate technical information into compelling narrative 
• Strong skills to engage multiple stakeholders and form networks to deliver goals together  
• Experience providing creative direction on campaigns and projects  
• Ability to develop a marketing and communications strategy and deliver against key targets  
• Experience reporting marketing and communications performance

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of digital marketing in a higher education context 
• Knowledge of innovation and commercialisation and relevant social and political influences 
• Experience of preparing press releases in collaboration with a press office

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