"Communications Manager (Fixed Term) Internal Secondment Opportunity"

The University and UIS

University Information Services (UIS) provides the digital services for the University of Cambridge, which has a bold ambition to use digitalisation to transform education and research.

The role

The Communications Manager will join a team of customer-focused communicators, working to help students and staff to discover, understand, adopt and use UIS' products and services. You'll be leading the development and implementation of change communications and content strategy for two strategic initiatives: bringing to life and implementing our new University Data Strategy; and supporting adoption and use of our new enterprise reporting solution.

You'll work with the University Data Office, relevant data groups, and data domain stakeholders to engage and support the diverse community of data specialists and consumers. You'll create and lead the delivery of initiatives to help data practitioners and their collaborators to use data to tackle the University's challenges.

You'll also work closely with the digital team delivering and developing our new reporting and analytics service. You'll design and implement strategies to communicate to stakeholders and users about new opportunities, tools, and support available to make more of our data both operationally and strategically.

Working with the University Data Lead, you will also help align and coordinate these two strategic initiatives with each other and with the many other activities underway at Cambridge.

As a Communications Manager you will:

• support the development and delivery of plans to ensure all communication aligns with the communications strategy
• scope, write and edit content so it is relevant, understandable and accessible
• manage relationships with subject matter experts to deliver effective communications
• advise and coach a variety of stakeholders in communicating effectively

This position is a full-time role, usually based on the University's West Cambridge Site. The funds for this post are available for 1 year in the first instance.

What you will need:

• Proven experience of leading and implementing change communications for organisation-wide projects.
• Experience of producing content on technical topics that meets end users' needs.
• Expertise and experience in search engine optimisation and content optimisation
• Experience of bespoke data analysis and report writing.
• Familiarity and experience in using traditional and new media to develop effective communications.
• Excellent editorial, proofreading and writing skills.
• Good understanding of social networking tools and their application.

The benefits

You can expect to receive:

• a competitive salary with automatic service-related progression and annual cost-of-living increases
• a generous annual leave allowance of 41 days per year (including bank holidays)
• access to a hybrid pension scheme with attractive employer contributions
• access to a range of shopping and travel discounts through the Cambens scheme.

We welcome applications from individuals who wish to be considered for part-time working or other flexible working arrangements.

We particularly welcome applications from women and/or candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our department.