Strategic Engagement Officer

About the Role

The Strategic Engagement Officer will report to the Public Engagement Manager in the Centre for Public Engagement (CPE) but will provide strategic support equally across all three Engagement Teams i.e. the CPE, the Centre for Creative Collaboration and Queen Mary's Civic University Agreement. As we work to bring the operations of the Engagement Teams into one cohesive unit, the postholder will play a crucial role in helping to develop and deliver new processes to maximise the impact of our work. The Strategic Engagement Officer will work collaboratively with the Engagement Teams to help develop a communications strategy that highlights the collective impact of our work. The overall aim is ensuring people inside and outside the university aware of the projects and initiatives run by the teams, and the positive impacts of the partnership work we are doing.

About the Department

The Policy and Strategic Partnerships team fosters positive partnerships between Queen Mary and cultural and community organisations in East London, supporting London-wide and national networks linking higher education institutions to policy agendas. This role supports three key strands within the Policy and Strategic Partnerships portfolio: the Centre for Public Engagement (CPE), the Centre for Creative Collaboration, and Queen Mary’s Civic University Agreement, collectively known as the Engagement Teams. 

About You

Main duties will include liaising with internal and external stakeholders and maintaining good relationships with partners. The role is crucial for the smooth running of projects and maintaining communication with partners, including local community organisations, artists, academics, local councillors, and funders. This role would suit someone who is highly organised and adept at working independently across a wide portfolio of engagement projects. The postholder will have excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills which enable them to build systems and processes for ensuring Queen Mary's public engagement work is reaching the right audiences. 

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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