Vacancy overview

Vacancy Communications Manager
Employer Kings College London
Vacancy type Job
Reference number Com4301
Form of employment Full Time
Salary / Rate £45,497 - £45,497
Hours Not specified
Published 02/06/2025
Closing date 26/06/2025

Description

Our Centre for Society and Mental Health is a cross-Faculty initiative between the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy (SSPP) and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN).

The centre aims to better understand the complex interrelationships between society and mental health, with a commitment to:

-          Ensure that the impact of social context is central to how we understand mental health; 

-          Work in partnership with affected communities.

We are looking for a Communications Manager to disseminate and promote this impactful research to key audiences.

Duties

This is a part time post (28 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30th April 2028. Please note that as this role is part time, the salary listed below will be amended accordingly (pro rata).

You will work closely with Centre Manager and the Communications, Policy, and Impact hub leads.  This involves collaborating closely with an interdisciplinary team of researchers as well as the Centre’s academic and community partners and experts-by-experience. 

You will collaborate with researchers across all programmes and hubs to sensitively and effectively communicate the findings of their impactful research in an accessible way to appropriate audiences who are best placed to make use of the findings to influence policies and practice.  This will be through various formats including Centre research briefs series. You will act 

as an ambassador for the Centre and develop connections with potential partners, third sector organisations, media and policy makers.   You will support the Centre culture of inclusivity and reciprocity and bring this ethos and tone of the Centre’s voice and approach into all communications.   You will also work in full partnership with experts-by-experience or members of affected communities.

Essential criteria

  1. A first degree or equivalent experience.

  1. Excellent communication skills, including experience of promoting and disseminating research findings to a range of audiences.

  1. Experience of supporting and coordinating research-related engagement activities, including development of briefs and similar dissemination outputs.

  1. Experience of organising events such as workshops, seminars and conferences.

  1. Experience of website maintenance, editing and content creation using Contensis or similar content management systems.

  1. Experience of creating accessible content for social media channels and using content creation software such as Canva or AdobePro.

Additional information

Additionally, you will create content for news stories, blogs, animations to disseminate and promote the work of the Centre.  You will continue to build and develop the Centre’s social media presence including increasing our BlueSky and LinkedIn presence and followers and creating an Instagram account.  You will continue to develop and deliver the Centre’s successful programme of events to continue to reach our core audiences and attract new ones.   You will refresh the Centre’s website and be responsible for developing and coordinating all internal and external communications including newsletters, news stories, blog posts and press releases, working with relevant colleagues from the communications teams in both faculties to promote Centre research. 

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