Communications Manager

University of Newcastle

Wage: £33,966 to £36,024 with development to £44,263 each year

Newcastle College is a superb place to work, with wonderful advantages . We have now a beneficiant vacation package deal; plus the chance to purchase extra, nice pension schemes and a lot of well being and wellbeing initiatives to help you.

Closing Date: 20 October 2023

The Position 

Newcastle College are delighted to promote this thrilling alternative for an skilled communications skilled to hitch us as Communications Supervisor for the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Analysis Centre (BRC) within the College of Medical Sciences. The NIHR Newcastle BRC is a partnership between the College of Medical Sciences, Newcastle College, Newcastle Hospitals and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Put on NHS Basis Belief. As considered one of 20 BRCs in England the NIHR Newcastle BRC is devoted to translating scientific discoveries in ageing and a number of long-term circumstances into significant advantages for sufferers, the general public and the healthcare system.

Working as a part of the BRC core operations staff, you’ll develop, implement and ship the NIHR Newcastle BRC communications technique throughout key digital channels to boost the profile of the Newcastle BRC and its analysis to stakeholders domestically, nationally and internationally.

You should have wonderful writing abilities and a focus to element with a confirmed skill to speak advanced materials clearly and succinctly to a spread of audiences. You may be folks centered, wonderful at constructing relationships with key stakeholders and help a collaborative atmosphere, fostering a tradition of belief and mutual respect. You may be a staff participant and cozy working with colleagues throughout completely different organisations to make sure the BRC’s work is communicated successfully to a various vary of audiences, internally and externally.

A background in Increased Schooling or biomedical analysis is just not important.  We’re interested by your transferrable abilities, expertise in delivering inventive communications and the way you’ll use these to help the supply of the NIHR Newcastle BRC’s technique.
We’re dedicated to constructing and sustaining a good and inclusive working atmosphere.

The place out there is obtainable on a full-time foundation and we’d be joyful to debate preparations for versatile and/or blended working.  

We appoint on benefit and notably welcome purposes from teams which are at the moment underrepresented in administrative Skilled Companies corresponding to LGBTQ+, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) colleagues and people who legally establish as male.

Casual enquiries are welcomed. To debate this position additional, please contact the Chief Working Officer of the NIHR Newcastle BRC Martin Dixon through e-mail [email protected]  

Fundamental Duties and Duties

  • Increase consciousness of the Newcastle BRC and its analysis focus and values, to stakeholders domestically, nationally and internationally
  • Develop, implement and ship the Newcastle BRC communications technique and exercise throughout key digital channels
  • Proactively analysis, develop/write, package deal and promote tales of workers and trainee achievements, public involvement actions and analysis impression, working carefully with colleagues to establish subjects to advertise after which speaking these to a specialist and non-specialist vary of audiences
  • Take the lead on sourcing, growing and modifying content material, together with, however not restricted to, pictures, video, graphics and social media content material
  • Work carefully with the Press Places of work inside Newcastle Hospitals, Newcastle College, CNTW and the NIHR, to be the interface to facilitating the inclusion of Newcastle BRC analysis tales within the press
  • Create and handle BRC social media accounts
  • Develop content material methods to drive guests to the Newcastle BRC web site and create a plan to observe and enhance person expertise and web site efficiency. Undertake common opinions of the content material to make sure it’s updated, appropriate and match for goal.
  • Benchmark, monitor and report on web site analytics for the Newcastle BRC web site
  • Guarantee messaging is built-in and aligned to wider NIHR, Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle College communications
  • Construct and nurture extremely productive relationships with colleagues throughout the NIHR, Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle College, together with fellow NIHR communications colleagues and colleagues in Newcastle Hospitals or Newcastle College communities that share frequent targets with the Newcastle BRC
  • Work with colleagues throughout the Newcastle BRC Core Group to help occasion actions by offering communications experience on this space, together with the event of related publication supplies, promotion of the occasion and any digital communications wanted to advertise or run the occasion
  • Some other related actions required by the Director or COO of the BRC

The Particular person

Data, Abilities and Expertise 

  • Demonstrable expertise of delivering progressive and fascinating communications utilizing a wide range of applicable channels and strategies, to all kinds of audiences
  • A confirmed monitor file within the manufacturing of print and on-line publications and publicity supplies
  • Wonderful writing abilities and a focus to element with a confirmed skill to provide clear, concise copy for on-line and offline publication, and to summarise advanced materials clearly and succinctly for a spread of audiences.
  • Superior IT abilities together with using Microsoft Workplace suite, particularly Phrase, Excel, and Outlook, and a excessive stage of competency in researching info utilizing the web.
  • Wonderful planning, organisation and time administration abilities
  • Excellent staff working abilities
  • Confirmed skill to make use of initiative, to assume strategically and to undertake an lively strategy to drawback fixing
  • Expertise of managing and monitoring social media channels
  • Expertise of working with web-management software program
  • Expertise of working in a customer-focused atmosphere
  • Expertise of working to tight deadlines

Fascinating

  • Proficiency within the full vary of Adobe Inventive Suite purposes
  • Expertise of working in a multi-disciplinary, collaborative atmosphere

Attributes and Behaviours

  • To be proactive and search out related tales and exercise and actively interact and promote these internally and externally
  • Confidence and professionalism in private interactions with colleagues and a pleasant demeanor, in a position to set up and keep good working relationships with colleagues and others in any respect ranges while being able to barter and affect the place applicable, each inside and outdoors the College, to make sure high-quality communications
  • Capacity to undertake unbiased analysis into a subject to tell communications actions
  • Capacity to work independently and as a part of a staff, engaged on personal initiative and in juggling a busy workload, involving the administration of a number of duties
  • Versatile and adaptable in working with completely different disciplines and dealing with altering and conflicting priorities; with a versatile strategy to work, together with a willingness to attend and help with occasions held within the night and at weekends

{Qualifications} 

  • Educated to diploma stage or equal

Fascinating

  • Related communications/advertising and marketing {qualifications}, eg CIM Skilled Certificates, or equal

Newcastle College is a worldwide College the place everyone seems to be handled with dignity and respect.  As a College of Sanctuary, we goal to offer a welcoming place of security for all, providing alternatives to folks fleeing violence and persecution.

We’re dedicated to being a totally inclusive college which actively recruits, helps and retains colleagues from all sectors of society.  We worth range in addition to have a good time, help and thrive on the contributions of all of our workers and the communities they characterize.  We’re proud to be an equal alternatives employer and encourage purposes from people who can complement our current groups, we consider that success is constructed on having groups whose backgrounds and experiences replicate the variety of our college and scholar inhabitants.

At Newcastle College we maintain a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the development of gender equality.  We additionally maintain a Race Equality Constitution Bronze award in recognition of our work in the direction of tackling race inequality in increased training REC.

As well as, we’re a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe. 

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