Public Engagement Manager

About the Role

The Public Engagement Manager will report to the Head of Public Engagement and will work with the wider CPE team with a focus on advice and support, capacity building and our funding schemes. This position works with the CPE team to support staff and students across the institution to maximise their public engagement and contribution towards Queen Mary’s strategic goals. In particular, this role will work to ensure that the Queen Mary community has the capacity and motivation to embed public engagement within their work to maximise the impact of our research.

About You

Your role will support colleagues at all career stages and across our three faculties to develop high quality public engagement projects. Using your exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, you will liaise with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and partners, building strong relationships and awareness of other support and opportunities available. You will act as first point of contact for the provision of public engagement expertise at Queen Mary, drawing on your knowledge and experience to advise on best practice, appropriate methods and stakeholders/audiences.

About the Centre for Public Engagement

The Centre for Public Engagement (CPE) at Queen Mary supports staff and students to undertake high quality public engagement. This small team sits within the Policy and Strategic Partnerships portfolio in the Office of the Principal. We work across all three faculties to offer advice, support and opportunities for public engagement work, a suite of training, and internal funding opportunities.

Queen Mary University of London is proud to hold a Platinum Engage Watermark from the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE), recognising Queen Mary as a beacon of excellent in the support it offers to public engagement.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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