Department: External RelationsSalary: £38,166 - £44,722 per annum (Grade 4)Reference: 1883Location: Department W, 81 Mile End RoadDate posted: 18 April 2024Closing date: 16 May 2024
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About the role
The Senior Media Relations Officer works across the university within the wider Communications team as part of the External Relations Directorate. The postholder is responsible for leading the strategic approach to, and delivery of, corporate media relations to enhance and protect the reputation of Queen Mary.
The post holder contributes to creative, timely, and impactful storytelling across a variety of channels.
About you
We are looking for a communications professional who is passionate about delivering impactful PR and media communications within a complex but vibrant environment. If that sounds like you and if you’re impatient to make a difference, we look forward to receiving your application.
About the External Relations Directorate
The External Relations Directorate is responsible for the University’s external activities, including communications and marketing, student recruitment and admissions, international affairs, and alumni relations and development.
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.
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 including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.
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.
Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality