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Specialist Marketing and Engagement Manager

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£52,874 - £61,921per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
27 Oct 2024
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About us

King’s Innovation Catalyst, within King’s College London, is seeking a dynamic and experienced professional to support engagement and communications for up to 12 months around our portfolio of innovation opportunities with both external companies, investor partners and staff internal to King’s College London.

King’s Innovation Catalyst (formerly named Innovation@King’s) helps King College London’s researchers unlock commercial opportunities to create impact at scale. We champion a diverse portfolio of breakthrough technologies and innovations in healthcare (including diagnostics, therapeutics and medical devices), physical sciences (IT, telecommunications and robotics) and across the social sciences, humanities and the arts

The Specialist Marketing and Engagement Manager is responsible for developing and implementing strategies to market technology-licensing/investment and collaboration opportunities and promote innovation support resources and teams internally to King’s research community.

About the role

The Specialist Marketing and Engagement Manager is responsible for developing and implementing strategies, which both market technology-licensing/investment and collaboration opportunities relating to outputs from KCL’s research base to external companies and investors. They will also prepare and maintain “open for business comms” (including web pages, press releases and social media content), and promote internally to King’s staff the various innovation support resources/teams available to assist in achieving impact from our research outputs.

This is a maternity cover role, working with existing teams within King’s Innovation Catalyst, academic staff within Faculty and central university communications teams to maximise:

  1. awareness and dissemination of information regarding innovations available for partnering, licensing and investment,
  2. communications relating to available commercialisation opportunities, translation funding opportunities, innovation support resources and support teams at King’s,
  3. awareness of strategic innovation projects and opportunities of relevance to both the internal King’s audience and external partners,
  4. promotion of King’s successes in the innovation field.

The ideal candidate will bring substantial experience of engagement and communication with both internal stakeholders and external partners around innovation, commercialisation, collaborative partnering and entrepreneurism. They will combine strong strategic communication and stakeholder engagement experience, with an understanding of innovation, business and commercialisation, and an ability to engage and inspire both senior stakeholders in funders, industry and the university as well as academic researchers and the public in general.

This post will be offered as maternity cover for a fixed period of up to 12 months, with candidates available to start in December 2024. This is a full-time post of 35 hour per week.

 

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

  1. Educated to degree level in a relevant field or equivalent experience  
  2. Experienced across IT, design and marketing software (MS Office, social media, website, CMS, email marketing, as well as Adobe Creative Suite)  
  3. Excellent communications skills – ability to creatively translate technical information into compelling narrative 
  4. Strong skills to engage multiple stakeholders and form networks to deliver goals together  
  5. Experience providing creative direction on campaigns and projects  
  6. Ability to develop a marketing and communications strategy and deliver against key targets  
  7. Experience reporting marketing and communications performance

Desirable criteria

  1. Understanding of digital marketing in a higher education context 
  2. Knowledge of innovation and commercialisation and relevant social and political influences 
  3. Experience of preparing press releases in collaboration with a press office

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

 

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

Interviews are due to be held on Monday 11th November and Wednesday 13th November.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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