Job Description

About us
UCL is one of the foremost universities in Britain and the world. The Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering is one of the largest Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering departments in the UK and is proud to host internationally-leading research groups covering a broad range of activities and is spread over several sites. Our staff and students have a diverse range of interests and expertise, covering many areas of physics, engineering, medicine, physiology, computer science, and mathematics. This provides a highly stimulating multidisciplinary environment for learning and for scientific research. In addition to our research activities, we run a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes.
About the role
The role will specialise in developing, delivering and reviewing the department's internal and external communications strategy and its contingent elements. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, a combination of the following: designing and producing newsletters, departmental annual reports, flyers, brochures and digital documents as well as maintaining an effective social media presence while keeping abreast of institutional activities for dissemination to all relevant stakeholders across all media platforms and events. The role also requires ensuring the visual identity of the department is utilised permissively across the institution and in harmony with UCL's overall branding. The post holder will also be involved in student recruitment, including marketing strategy, as well as organising and supporting networking events for alumni, prospective students and internal and external contacts.
About you
We are looking to recruit a Communications and Marketing Manager on a 10-month secondment. This position is ideal for someone who has ambitions to progress into a Grade 7 Communications Manager role. This will be a busy role, in a fast-paced environment, and the post holder will be expected to be adaptable, quickly assimilate information, and establish their own support networks across the Engineering faculty.
Candidates must have Undergraduate qualification in a communications or marketing discipline, or equivalent professional experience and excellent working knowledge of Content Management Systems. Computer literacy, including understanding or and competency in word processing (e.g. Microsoft Word), desktop publishing and image manipulation (e.g. InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop) and website technologies (e.g. Drupal) is also required. Extensive experience of writing, editing and sub-editing, including the expression of complex or technical material in lay terminology, will be essential to the role.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

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.
You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/
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