Change Communications Officer

The University has a distinguished heritage and an ambitious agenda for the future which aims to make Manchester one of the world’s leading universities.  

A fantastic opportunity has become available to join a brilliant and supportive Change Communications team, working on the People and Organisational Development Transformation programme, a high-investment high-impact strategic change programme to support the achievement of the University’s strategic priorities and continued success.

This role focuses on initiating, creating, developing and evaluating engagement and communications activity to support the delivery of the programme objectives. 

As a member of the People and Organisational Development Transformation programme, you will be responsible for supporting the creation of innovative communications and engagement solutions. You will build close professional relationships with stakeholders to ensure a proactive approach to strategic communications and engagement to deliver consistent and coordinated messaging. 

This role requires someone with communication skills and the ability to translate complex concepts into something that will engage the audience and make the information easy to understand, so skills in the MS365 suite of applications would be a bonus.

You will be an experienced communicator with a passion for change, coupled with demonstrable project skills. With a fresh innovative approach, you will be keen to support your colleagues to create and deliver their messages, across a wide range of projects, through smart and effective channels. You should have the ability to lead in digital communications aspects of effective project promotion, engagement and buy in.

What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status.  All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk. Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Stella Morris

Email: stella.morris@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.