PR and Communications Manager
Salary: £43,800 to £58,500
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time (35 hours per week)
We are looking for a first-rate PR and communications professional to help one of the world's most influential education organisations to grow its global voice and impactthrough engaging and proactive communications.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role
You will support Cambridge University Press & Assessment's external communications, enhance and protect its reputation in the media, and help develop and implement a research communications strategy across the organisation.
As an experienced media relations professional with exceptional writing skills, you will collaborate with senior leaders and communicators across the organisation to strengthen our reputation through proactive, audience-appropriate communications. This includes crafting impactful press releases, web and social media content, media briefings, and pitches.
A natural creative, you will devise strategies to elevate awareness of our work and expertise on the global stage, exciting and engaging audiences across all channels and digital platforms, while ensuring our communications are accessible to all.
About you
The role requires an experienced communications professional with in-depth knowledge of the media and both proactive and reactive communications. You will have excellent writing and editing skills, gained in a journalistic setting and/or a busy press office environment. You will be highly skilled at building networks and relationships, and confident in engaging across a complex organisation and with a range of stakeholders.
You will bring at least five years of experience in a communications role. You'll demonstrate excellent time management, attention to detail, and the ability to meet deadlines. A collaborative mindset, combined with creative thinking and strong problem-solving skills, will be key to your success in this role.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexiblerewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
* 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance Discretionary annual bonus Group personal pension scheme Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary Green travel schemes
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
If you choose to apply, please include a short cover letter with your application, making sure you specify you are applying for PR & Communications Managerposition. We look forward to hearing from you.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
To maintain a fair recruitment process, applications will only be accepted via our online careers page. Applications emailed directly to the recruiter may not be received by the hiring team.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 10th of September.Interviewsarescheduled to take placefrom16th to 19th ofSeptember.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to thegov.ukwebsite for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identityand sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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