Communications Officer (Research)

About us

The UCL School of Management is home to UCL’s business and management research and education programmes. The School has forged a reputation for world-leading research and teaching in the areas of innovation management, the creation and growth of technology-intensive organisations, business analytics, and entrepreneurship.

The research undertaken at the UCL School of Management has been rated as ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF), placing us 2nd in the UK for Business and Management.

The School is home to over 2,000 students, with more than 55% from outside the UK. The School’s faculty members also come from all over the world, with PhDs from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, UCLA, North-Western, Cornell, Duke, Cambridge, and London Business School among others.

The UCL School of Management takes full advantage of being part of a world-leading university through its interdisciplinary outlook and builds on close collaborations in both research and education with other UCL departments, including computer science, engineering, economics, psychology, public policy, statistics and medical sciences.

About the role

The post holder will curate a suite of exciting, informative, and innovative content that shines a light on the world-leading and internationally excellent research undertaken at UCL School of Management, operating at the intersections of business.

They will work with the Communications Manager (Research) to develop content strategies that support our vision to be known as a world-leading business school, covering a broad range of areas from social media, e-newsletters, podcasts, and more.

Analytics, reporting, user testing and an innovative approach to work will be core to the success of this role, ensuring that we are using data to drive improvements, enabling the School to deliver best-in-class content to its audiences.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details. Please also read the attached Candidate Guidance document. When completing your supporting statement, please tell us, using examples, how you meet the essential criteria listed in the job description.

About you

The successful candidate will need to evidence the following in their application:

• Understanding of effective writing styles for a wide range of platforms and audiences
• Experience in creating content using a content management system (CMS) such as Drupal
• Experience with digital communications in a higher education context, and ideally within a business school environment
• Experience delivering high-quality content across social media platforms, ensuring relevancy to key audiences
• Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills
• Understanding of effective writing styles for digital and print, and for different audiences

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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