Overview
Senior PR and Communications Manager (Health) – INTERNAL ONLY – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
THIS VACANCY IS OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY
About Us
King’s College London is one of the world’s top universities, with an ambitious vision.
Our award-winning communications team plays a key role in ensuring that our world-class reputation is enhanced and maintained, and that our strengths and successes are effectively communicated.
About The Role
King’s College London is one of the world’s top universities, with an award-winning Communications Team. With an ambitious vision, effective communications with key audiences, including with students, staff and the media, is crucial.
As Senior PR and Communications Manager, you will work with the faculties and the media to ensure that our world-class reputation is enhanced and maintained and that our strengths and successes particularly across health, mental health and interdisciplinary science, are effectively communicated.
As a key part of the team, you will provide strategic leadership and direction to faculty communications, ensuring alignment to the university’s internal and external engagement strategy and business objectives, create and place compelling and engaging content aligned to the university’s strategic priorities in national and international news channels, on the website and across King’s digital channels, run a series of communications campaigns that appeal to staff, students and external stakeholders and help to design and curate content for key events series that will help generate PR. You will also assist the university’s issues communications response offering expertise on messaging and lines to take.
You’ll be a dynamic, driven person with an ability to engage with a range of colleagues, and with substantial communications experience. To be successful in this role you will have experience in a similar role and will be able to demonstrate success of managing communications colleagues, working with and briefing journalists and placing positive stories in prominent media outlets. We need a confident self-starter, who works well under pressure and who uses a keen news sense, relationships with colleagues and journalists, creativity and initiative to achieve success.
This is a full time (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 26th April 2026.
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