Strategic Projects Communications Lead

1 week ago

Bath, United Kingdom University of Bath Full time

Strategic Projects Communications Lead

**About the role**:
As a Strategic Projects Communications Lead, you will have a pivotal role in the success of significant change projects and programmes to realise our ambitious University Strategy.

Join us as a creative communications professional to engage our diverse staff and student community.

**Your role will**:

- Lead communications for various crucial strategic programs and projects, crafting and detailed communication plans with persuasive messaging in sync with project achievements.
- Provide expert internal communications guidance to executive project and programme sponsors, addressing communication risks and opportunities.
- Work closely with programme managers, project managers, change managers and Human Resources to ensure timely, relevant, and accurate communications with collaborators.
- Maintain oversight of project communications outputs and support key communication channels for internal audiences.
- Use multiple media types including text, images, audio, and video to engage diverse staff and student audiences.
- Leverage analytics to identify communication opportunities, evaluate activities, and improve channels.

**About you**:
You’ll have excellent time management, with the proven ability to prioritise across a range of projects and programmes. If you have a mix of enthusiasm, perseverance, and foresight and excel at working with different collaborators to accomplish project success, we encourage you to reach out.

**Further information**:
The role is available on a full-time fixed term basis of a minimum 24 months. The planned interview date for this vacancy is 06 October 2025.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

**What we can offer you**:
We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

- Free counselling services through Health Assured
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Staff discount at Team Bath gym
- Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
- Staff discount on language courses
- Generous employer contributory pension schemes
- Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
- A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
- Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
- Local discounts and more
- A family-friendly workplace
- An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
- Relocation allowance
- Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.

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