Job Description

Job Details
Section
Doctoral College
Location:
Highfield Campus
Salary
36,130 to 44,128 per annum
Full Time Fixed Term for 24 months
Closing Date:
Wednesday 23 July 2025
Interview Date
To be confirmed
Reference
3159325BT

Looking for your next inspiring communications and marketing challenge?

Join our Doctoral College and play a critical role in delivering the university's strategy and enhancing the profile of our doctoral research and training partnerships. As a Communications and Marketing Manager, you'll be working on a range of initiatives to recruit students to Postgraduate Research (PGR) programmes and promote our impactful research.

About the role

You will lead the development and implementation of a marketing and communications strategy aimed at recruiting students to PGR programmes and enhancing the profile of Doctoral Training partnerships and doctoral research at the University. You will create engaging content for various channels, organise strategic events and build relationships with key stakeholders.


This role is full-time, fixed term for two years initially.


The role is hybrid with a mix of working from home and on campus. Expectations are that 5 out of every 10 working days will be on campus.

About you

You'll bring experience of planning and implementing marketing operations and the ability to do so in a large and complex organisation. Your skills in developing plans based on data and insight will underpin your creativity in designing innovative solutions. Adept at relationship building, you'll be able to work proactively with academic and professional services stakeholders and across a network of internal and external teams to effectively deliver communications and marketing plans.

What we can offer you

As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work.


With a generous holiday allowance as well as additional university closure days we are committed to supporting our staff and students and open to a flexible working approach.


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For further information about the role, please contact Stephen Wakeling,

s.j.wakeling@soton.ac.uk

or Nasseem Fazel-Hamedani

n.fazel-hamedani@soton.ac.uk

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applicants who support our mission of inclusivity.


Apply by 11.59 pm GMT on the closing date. For assistance contact Recruitment on +44(0)2380 592750 or recruitment@soton.ac.uk quoting the job number.