Communications Officer

4 weeks ago


University of Warwick, United Kingdom University of Warwick Full time

Permanent, Full Time Role (36.5 hours per week)

We are delighted to share a brilliant opportunity to join the leading corporate affairs team at the University of Warwick as an internal communications officer.

It’s an exciting time to be joining the team at Warwick, as it undergoes a period of significant growth.

The Communications Officer (Business Partner) will be responsible for a wide range of communications activities in support of the University’s overarching communications strategy to enhance the University’s engagement with its staff community - articulating strategy, news and stories in meaningful communications to help foster a professional and inclusive working environment and experience, promoting engagement and advocacy.

**To Apply**:
Interview date: 30/01/2023.

**JOB PURPOSE**

Responsible for a wide range of communications activities in support of the University’s overarching communications strategy to enhance the University’s engagement with its staff community - articulating strategy, news and stories in meaningful communications to help foster a professional and inclusive working environment and experience, promoting engagement and advocacy.

**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**
- To proactively plan, create and deliver content for staff communications in alignment with the institutional communications strategy - ensuring content plans, projects and campaigns are joined up and delivered in the most effective and engaging way for the staff audience, taking into account analytics, brand guidelines and employer brand. The postholder will work in close partnership with a number of key internal departments to advise, guide and support on communications activity.
- In partnership with HR and the Insight team, to develop and manage a framework for effective staff engagement - ensuring opportunities for listening, for dialogue, for the foregrounding of multiple voices and for thought leadership - all of which should extend and deepen institutional awareness, pride and engagement.
- To advise communications practitioners in academic and professional and commercial service departments on their own staff communications activities in alignment with the institutional communications strategy - ensuring consistency of narrative and brand.
- To oversee the effective functioning and development of digital staff engagement channels to ensure routes for engagement are audience-led and of the highest standards.
- To create analytics reports to enable evaluation of channels, engagement and the effectiveness of campaigns and, through this, advise the team on developments and improvements.
- Contributing to specific communications projects and campaigns to support key strategic objectives using an assigned budget and motivating and developing cross-functional teams to deliver results.
- Contributing to institutional issues/crisis communications - monitoring staff engagement and implementing communications during a crisis/major incident.
- Working in a virtual team across MCI, proactively contributing to and shaping marketing & communications projects and campaigns to support strategic objectives using an assigned budget and motivating and developing cross-functional teams to deliver results.



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